The National Anticorruption Bureau suspects NBU of the complicity in embezzlement of UAH 12 billion of refinancing, as evidenced by the ruling of the Kyiv Solomensky District Court dd. 31 May 2017, Finbalance reports.
According to court materials, NABU established the specified fact while conducting the investigation of withdrawal of USD 87 mln dollars from the bankrupt Delta Bank.
Thus, the investigation established that during 2014-2015, the NBU officials embezzled NBU funds, totaling UAH 12 bln, abusing their office and acting voluntarily in collusion with the management of several commercial banks.
The banks, such as Kyiv Rus, Pivdencombank, CityCommerce Bank, Avtokrazbank, Terra Bank, Delta Bank, Khreshchatyk, Finance and Credit, Finprostbank and Integral-Bank, were in involved in the fraud.
According to NABU detectives, the NBU refinancing was embezzled using correspondent accounts of the specified banks, opened in Meinl Bank Aktiengeselschaft (Austria), Bank Frick & CjAG (Lichtenstein), Bank Winter & CO AG (Austria), East-West United Bank SA (Luxemburg) through repayment of loan arrears of controlled companies, which arose under loan agreements, concluded by them with specified foreign banking institutions during 2011-2015.
As reported, in July 2016, Kyiv Solomensky District Court permitted the detectives of the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine to temporarily gain access to NBU documents as part of the investigation of this case.
It should be reminded that the Prosecutor’s Office of Austria came to grips with Meinl Bank, through which Ukrainian bankrupt banks actively withdrew funds in 2014-2015.
