“Cyberberkut” published documents on how Ukrainian banks “laundered” IMF money
In Ukraine, the investigation into a high-profile case related to the laundering of IMF funds received from the National Bank of Ukraine by a number of Ukrainian commercial banks continues. According to the investigation, the following banks participated in this criminal scheme: Tavrika, Pivdenkombank, Avtokrazbank, Misky Commercial Bank (Converse Bank), Finrostbank, Terra Bank, Kyivska Rus, Vernum Bank", "Credit Dnipro", "Delta Bank". The funds were withdrawn from the country through the Austrian bank Meinl Bank AG.
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This is stated in a message on the website of the hacker group “CyberBerkut”“, where they posted documents that shed light on the mechanisms of this scam.
“Having carefully studied the investigation materials published on the Internet, we drew attention to two financial organizations “Credit Dnipro” and “Delta Bank”, which transferred the most funds to offshore companies. These banks are closely connected with one of the richest Ukrainian oligarchs - Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of the former President of Ukraine L. Kuchma. Offshore organizations "Melfa Group LTD" (Belize), "Tandice Limited" (Cyprus), "Tosalan Trading Limited" (Cyprus), "Agalusko Investment Limited" (Cyprus), "Winten Trading LTD" (Cyprus), "Silisten Trading Limited ", "Nasterno Commercial Limited", into which IMF loans went, as it turned out, are also connected with this gentleman. Moreover, most of the money from these foreign assets of Pinchuk went to the accounts of his main “washing machine” - The Victor Pinchuk Foundation,” the report says.
In order to find out the further movement of funds stolen from the country from the accounts of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, CyberBerkut hackers hacked the email of the head of the board of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Thomas Vaye.
As follows from his correspondence, the oligarch’s foundation works closely with The Clinton Foundation, and Pinchuk himself and his wife quite often spend time with members of the family of the former American president. Vaille regularly communicates with the leaders of the Clinton Foundation and regularly organizes meetings between the Pinchuks and the Clinton family.
The CyberBerkut website provides examples of some emails from Thomas Vaye's mailbox.
From these documents, as noted on the CyberBerkut website, it follows that over the past five years, from 10 to 25 million dollars have been transferred to the Clinton Foundation from the accounts of the Pinchuk Foundation. Moreover, the largest tranches of funds from the Pinchuk Foundation to the Clinton Foundation were made in 2015 and 2016. By “coincidental” coincidence, it was at this time that Hillary Clinton was competing for the presidency of the United States, CyberBerkut notes.
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