The State Bureau of Investigation has uncovered a group of individuals involved in a bank robbery of "especially large scale."
The detectives from the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BEB) have uncovered a group of individuals who misappropriated funds from a bank in a particularly large amount.
Source. This is reported by the agency's press service.
According to the announcement, the chairman of the board of the open joint-stock company, together with the former deputy chairman of the board of the joint-stock bank, decided to misappropriate the financial institution's funds. They arranged a loan of 150 million UAH secured by real estate, with no intention of repaying the money.
Subsequently, the loan funds were transferred from the accounts of the joint-stock company to the accounts of another related entity, an "Asset Management Company," allegedly in exchange for securities for their subsequent embezzlement.
Later, the chairman of the joint-stock company transferred ownership rights to the mortgaged property, specifically an administrative and production building in Kyiv, to third parties under a forged contract.
The BEB detectives established that the former deputy chairman of the bank had entered into a knowingly forged assignment agreement for the credit rights between the bank and a new creditor—a controlled foreign company. This company was in the process of liquidation and had ceased all business activities.
It is noted that the signatories of the agreement on behalf of the foreign company were individuals with no connection to it.
As a result of these actions by the official, the building was released from the mortgage, making it impossible to recover the debt on the loan.
Subsequently, the loan funds were distributed among all accomplices of the crime.
Currently, the former deputy chairman of the bank has been notified of suspicion (aiding and abetting in the misappropriation of someone else's property by a group of individuals in particularly large amounts through the abuse of official position).