An investigator from the Prosecutor General's Office received court permission to seize documents related to loan agreements with EUROGAZBANK, a bank controlled by Oleksiy Ivchenko and used by former President Viktor Yushchenko. This was revealed in a ruling by the Pechersky District Court of Moscow on January 6, 2015, according to Nashi Groshi.
According to criminal case materials, in early 2014, EUROGAZBANK OJSC submitted "deliberately false documents to the NBU with the aim of obtaining funds from the National Bank." Based on these documents, loan agreements were concluded, and the NBU transferred UAH 299 million in loan funds to EUROGAZBANK OJSC to maintain the financial institution's liquidity.
In turn, shareholders and officials of EUROGAZBANK transferred these funds to companies under their control.
The guarantors and pledgers for these loan agreements were officials and shareholders of the financial institution: Eurogazgroup LLC (founded by Alexey Ivchenko, his wife Galina Ivchenko, and his daughter Kristina Ivchenko). The brother of the chairman of EUROGAZBANK's audit committee and the chairman of the financial institution's board also acted as guarantors and pledgers.
On July 16, 2015, the NBU declared EUROGAZBANK insolvent, and on November 17, 2015, the regulator began liquidating EUROGAZBANK.
Let us recall that EUROGAZBANK was founded in 2006 and was completely under the control of Oleksiy Ivchenko, the former head of the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine, who was close to former President Viktor Yushchenko.
According to Forbes, Viktor Yushchenko's family held deposits and used the financial institution's services. Furthermore, the former president is known to have given Ivchenko business advice.
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