On January 25, the Kyiv Pechersk District Court seized Alexander Yanukovych’s UAH 312.5 mln, which, according to the data of investigation and the State Financial Monitoring Service, were transferred from the All-Ukrainian Development Bank to Poroshenko’s bank “International Investment Bank” on January 10, 2017, according to Finbalance, the Economic Truth reports.

According to the document, the seizure was imposed within the criminal proceeding dd. 15 September 2014 upon the facts of malfeasance by the executives of state rail transport companies and VBR OJSC.

As reported, the pretrial investigation established that during the period between 2012 and 2014, VBR executives financed state companies, established by legislation, at overrated loan rates and obtained improper advantage, conducted fraudulent transactions with public securities and securities of fictitious companies, disbursed unsecured loans to the affiliated companies through loans, obtained from the National Bank.

According to investigation materials, during the period between January 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, abusing their office, the VBR’s executives disbursed illegal loans to Donetsk Rail Road SE, Lviv Rail Road PLLC, Odessa Rail Road SE, South-Western Rail Road PLLC, Southern Rail Road SE and Prydniprovska Rail Road for the amount of UAH 250 bln with the purpose of illegal drawdown of funds by the bank.

It is also noted that in addition, within 2012-2013 VBR obtained from NBU the loan, amounting to UAH 794.1 mln, and transferred it to the affiliated companies, UAH 183.6 mln of which were not returned.

In addition, since 2011, with the purpose of legalization of criminally obtained funds, the VBR executives created the organized group, comprising of bank employees, specified by the investigator in the petition, who appropriated funds in especially large amounts through conclusion of deposit and loan agreements with VBR for the benefit of third parties.

According to the data of the State Financial Monitoring Service dd. January 11, 2017, the VBR executives transferred UAH 312.5 mln to International Investment Bank PJSC.

According to investigators’ opinion, Yanukovych is the actual owner of these funds (according to the data of investigators, the nominal owners of the relevant funds – VBR employees did not have legal revenues, corresponding to amounts of deposits).