Deceived depositors of Bakhmatyuk Bank promise Poroshenko “Third Financial Maidan” (PHOTO)
Kyiv, November 27 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – On Thursday, under the walls of the National Bank of Ukraine, another rally of defrauded depositors of VAB Bank PJSC, owned by oligarch Oleg Bakhmatyuk, took place.
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The picketers were holding posters “VAB Bank, return our hard-earned money”, “National Bank, return the money of VAB Bank depositors in full”, “We demand lustration of the heads of the National Bank” and others.
Depositors demand to nationalize VAB Bank PJSC by conducting an independent audit of its financial condition, based on the audit results, to send relevant appeals and information about the commission of criminal offenses by the bank’s management, as well as shareholder Oleg Bakhmatyuk, to the Prosecutor General’s Office, to conduct lustration in the NBU and to include representatives of depositors in the issue resolution group for PJSC VAB Bank. Investors are demanding that Valeria Gontareva leave her post.
The investors outlined their demands in a letter to Petro Poroshenko.
“The promises of the head of the NBU V.A. Gontareva turned out to be false. In the media and television there were calls from the top management of the NBU to leave deposits and stop their outflow, they guaranteed us the stabilization of the bank’s work, and assured us that the NBU was taking all measures to restore the bank’s solvency.
But it turned out that her public promises had signs of fraud, and the bank’s management deceived depositors,” the letter says.
Depositors directly accuse Valeria Gontareva and the management of the NBU of fraud and involvement in illegal actions of the management of PJSC VAB Bank.
“The NBU, as a regulator, has not offered adequate responses to current challenges. The bank’s loan portfolio only grew, which once again confirms the artificial “money laundering”, while the NBU did not take any measures. The bank's depositors have the impression that you, together with the management of the problem bank, on the contrary, did everything to facilitate the theft of funds, which has signs of corruption, so we will demand that appropriate checks be carried out against you and the bank's management.
Over the past month, the largest volumes of refinancing were received by banks owned by Oleg Bakhmatyuk, close to the ex-head of the NBU Stepan Kubiv: Financial Initiative Bank, VAB Bank, but we never saw this money.
After a series of refinancings, the National Bank classified VAB Bank as insolvent by its Resolution No. 20.11.2014 dated November 733, XNUMX, and the Deposit Guarantee Fund introduced a temporary administration into the Bank.
After this, the official publications of the NBU published information that VAB Bank had provided a financial recovery plan, providing for financial support from the bank’s shareholders within a certain time frame. However, the owners' proposals to increase the bank's capital turned out to be insufficient to maintain its solvency.
The NBU also noted that the bank does not meet the criteria that are the basis for state participation in the additional capitalization of the bank, approved by the decision of the Expert Analytical Council on State Participation in the Authorized Capital of Banks dated July 3, 2014.
In addition, according to the press release, the global standards for bank recapitalization, which the NBU is implementing as part of a program with the International Monetary Fund, do not provide for state participation in recapitalization if the bank provides a significant amount of loans to economically related parties.
Why didn’t the NBU inform us about this for three months? What is this - deception?
Through its actions, the NBU led to the collapse of the financial system in the state.
Now the banking system will be hit by a new wave of mistrust. Ukrainians have already gone to withdraw their deposits. Now no one will believe the NBU.
With such inconsistent actions, the NBU provokes a new wave of distrust in the banking system as a whole, and not only clients of problematic financial institutions, but banks as a whole suffer from them,” write depositors Poroshenko and Gontareva.
Depositors warn Petro Poroshenko: “If you do not meet our demands in the near future, Delta Bank and PrivatBank will fall next. Once again, a wave of panic regarding the withdrawal of deposits will cover the whole of Ukraine, and no calls will restore the trust of Ukrainians.
Stop making lists and feeding us promises, we are ready for radical actions, don’t provoke us.
We call on the President of Ukraine not to commit the actions that the previous government committed in relation to its people. Don’t turn into it, remember how thousands of Ukrainians asked to pay attention to them, and Mr. Yanukovych openly ignored them. We allowed you to come to power and change Ukraine.
This is not why people stood on the Maidan and supported you in the elections of the President of Ukraine, and your political party in the elections of the Verkhovna Rada, so that you would allow us to be deceived again and steal our money.”
If their demands are not met, depositors promise to start an indefinite action under the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, APU, NBU, CMU together with borrowers, block the work of the NBU, block exits and entrances to the government quarter, contact international human rights organizations, as well as the IMF, set up a tent city and begin to assemble the “Third Financial Maidan”.
Let us remind you that the owners of VAB Bank deposits have not been able to return their money for the fifth month. At the beginning of last year, the National Bank set limits on the issuance of deposits of no more than 15 thousand hryvnia per day. VAB Bank did not issue deposits even in this volume, deciding to limit itself to issuing 1 thousand UAH. per day, but even this was not accomplished. They started issuing deposits only before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, but on October 28 they stopped again.
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