NABU and SAPO sent to the dock eight members of a criminal organization led by the former chairman of the board of Ukrgasbank, which seized UAH 206 million from the financial institution.
According danimi investigation, during 2014-2020, the defendants implemented a scheme to withdraw funds from Ukrgasbank under the pretext of paying for intermediary services to attract funds from large businesses and state institutions and enterprises.
The NABU reports that in reality, the mediation took place only on paper: clients placed funds in the state-owned Ukrgasbank on deposits on their own initiative or in accordance with the procedure established for the state sector by the Cabinet of Ministers. Instead, the state bank, based on fictitious acts of work performed, duly paid the pseudo-intermediaries for services that they never provided and about which most of the bank's clients did not even know.
They turned out to be individual entrepreneurs, self-employed persons, and legal entities. Most of them registered solely to participate in the scheme: after receiving the funds, these entities ceased their activities and did not carry out any other activity except that specified in the fictitious acts of service performance.
The above-mentioned scheme of raising funds was not used by any of the other state-owned banks in Ukraine. And after the intensification of investigative actions by the NABU and the SAPO, it was abandoned even in Ukrgasbank itself. However, during its existence, the state institution made over a thousand transfers to 52 pseudo-intermediaries, illegally spending over UAH 206 million on it.
Among the accused:
- former chairman of the board of Ukrgasbank, head of a criminal organization;
- former Deputy Chairman of the Bank's Board, who also held the position of Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine (2016-2019);
- former heads of one of the bank's departments;
- former head of the regional directorate of the bank;
- three fictitious partners of the bank, including the former First Deputy Prosecutor General.
Qualification of the crime: Art. 191, Art. 255, Art. 209 and Art. 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, depending on the role of each participant in the criminal scheme.
"The court passed guilty verdicts on the basis of plea agreements for eight more participants in the crime. These individuals agreed to provide incriminating testimony, compensated UAH 35 million in damages, and transferred UAH 14,726 million to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine," — added the NABU.
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