Poroshenko was convicted of laundering billions of hryvnias together with Yanukovych’s son
Almost 2 billion hryvnia, which were on deposits of dummies in the bank of the son of ex-president Alexander Yanukovych, were withdrawn through the bank of the current president Petro Poroshenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in the investigation of the “Schemes” program of Radio Liberty.
During 2016-2017, arrests were removed from Yanukovych’s accounts in the All-Ukrainian Development Bank. After that, cash was withdrawn in tens of millions through the cash desk of Poroshenko’s International Investment Bank. The authors of the investigation suggest that the president’s financial institution earned about 20 million “commissions” from this.
Under the previous president, employees of Yanukovych’s VBR allegedly opened deposit accounts worth millions of hryvnia in their bank. However, as journalists were able to find out, some of the formal account holders did not know about the millions of deposits and withdrawals of funds already under the new government. Other ex-employees of VBR, having heard the question, refused to communicate.
According to information on bank transfers, in 2017, the bank's former senior office manager Valeria Yesaulkova withdrew about 80 million hryvnia in cash from her account. Former head of the design development sector Evgeniy Tkachuk - almost 70 million hryvnia. Former head of the business analytics department Roman Emelin - about 50 million hryvnia. And the former head of the securities department of VBR, Alexander Kostilov - more than 20 million hryvnia.
In most cases, money was withdrawn in cash through the cash desk of Petro Poroshenko’s International Investment Bank.
“If we consider that the commission for cash withdrawal is one percent, then MIB could earn up to 20 million hryvnia from the commission alone,” the investigation says.
At the same time, some employees of Yanukovych’s bank trusted to withdraw money to trusted persons, in particular, lawyer Alexander Salazsky. The latter confirmed that he represented the interests of several people from VBR, and said that Yashar Khodzhaev allegedly lent them funds.
Khodzhaev is not a stranger to the Yanukovych family. After the Maidan, the “Yanukovych helipad” in the center of Kyiv was rewritten as it.
In the end, this explanation - about a loan from Khodzhaev - satisfied the Pechersky Court of Kyiv. That is why, in particular, the decision to remove arrests from accounts was made.
Yuriy Lutsenko, in a comment to reporters, noted that, in his opinion, the prosecutors did everything possible, and placed the blame on the Ukrainian courts.
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