Moscow - Simferopol, July 21 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea opened a criminal case into the destruction of millions of hryvnia in the local office of the National Bank of Ukraine. By order from Kyiv, the money, the export of which was prohibited by Simferopol, was sent to the shredder. The fate of saved banknotes, bars and coins with a total value of 11 billion rubles. the court will decide.
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According to Kommersant, the investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Crimea opened criminal case N2014007031 on the fact of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction or damage to property). Its organizers and perpetrators face up to five years in prison.
During the investigation, it was established that in May of this year, after the National Bank of Ukraine stopped servicing the operations of Crimean banks, in particular the Black Sea Bank for Development and Reconstruction (BRD), which came under the control of the authorities of the republic, and the subsequent revocation of its license, the BRR appealed the actions of the Ukrainian regulator in Economic Court of Crimea. Based on the claim in which the Chelyabinsk Bank claimed 5,5 million hryvnias stuck in its correspondent account with the National Bank of Ukraine, the economic court ruled to prohibit the export of money and valuables from the Crimean department of the National Bank of Ukraine and issued a corresponding writ of execution to the plaintiffs. However, when bank representatives, police and a support group from local militias arrived at the National Bank building in Simferopol, the seized money was already being destroyed.
According to a verbal order from Kyiv, using a shredder, employees of the National Bank department from May 5 to 7 shredded, as the investigative authorities later calculated, 48 million hryvnia, which was equivalent at the Central Bank exchange rate at that time to 145,6 million rubles. To prevent theft during the liquidation, the process was monitored from Kyiv via video broadcast.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea, as a result of police intervention, the destruction of another 3,7 billion hryvnia, or 11,1 billion rubles, was stopped, as well as the expected export from the republic of coins and gold bars worth 600 million hryvnia, or 1,8 billion rubles. , stored in the management of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Representatives of the Crimean authorities, in turn, did not rule out that ex-heads of the National Bank could become defendants in the criminal case. The Crimean department of the NBU still officially exists and has its own staff, but does not conduct any real activities.
The Crimean economic court is due to decide the fate of the seized money and valuables at the end of July. A source close to the leadership of Crimea told Kommersant that the seized funds could be used not only for settlements with the Black Bank, they could be “nationalized” and “given to the depositor protection fund,” which has already paid 11 billion rubles. on debts of Ukrainian banks.