2 billion hryvnia disappeared from Yanukovych’s son’s bank – investigation
About 2 billion hryvnia were withdrawn from the All-Ukrainian Development Bank, which belonged to the son of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, Alexander, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the publication of the Kyiv publication “Economic Truth”.
“Of the previously seized 2,6 billion hryvnia, which were in accounts at the All-Ukrainian Development Bank, about 2 billion hryvnia have already been withdrawn. The remaining funds exist only on paper,” the publication says.
The publication recalls how the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov reported in 2015 about the seizure of 2,6 billion hryvnia in the accounts of VBR, but now these funds are no longer in the accounts.
Interestingly, this coincided with media reports that the Pechersky District Court lifted the seizure of the accounts of companies that law enforcement officers attributed to the “orbit of influence” of Alexander Yanukovych.
“When the courts lifted the seizures from the companies’ accounts, the funds were transferred to other banks,” a source familiar with the situation at the bank told the publication.
“Currently, there are 559 million hryvnia in the bank’s accounts from funds related to Yanukovych. This money is in the 9th line of accepted creditors' claims. However, these funds exist only virtually, since the bank’s assets are not enough to satisfy the claims of 9th priority creditors,” the publication says.
According to investigators, in 2013-2014, officials of the All-Ukrainian Development Bank, in order to obtain public funds, illegally loaned money to Donetsk Railway, Lviv Railway, Odessa Railway, Southwestern Railway, Southern Railway" and "Dnieper Railway".
The total amount of illegal loans amounted to more than UAH 2,5 billion.
In October 2015, it became known that investigators of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seized more than 2,6 billion hryvnia in these accounts.
In addition, at the beginning of 2017, 313 million hryvnia were transferred from Alexander Yanukovych’s bank to the accounts of Petro Poroshenko’s bank and were subsequently arrested.
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