The collapse of the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" led to the trail of the "FSB"
In the case of asset withdrawal from the former bank of NK "Lukoil" co-owners Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun, the creation of "Concord" Dmytro Fomenko was highlighted
On November 29, the Deposit Guarantee Fund announced that from the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine," assets worth 700 million UAH were withdrawn prior to its recognition as insolvent. The NBU recognized the bank as insolvent back in March 2016, after which a temporary administration was introduced. All "schemes operations," as indicated in the DIF, were conducted throughout the year leading up to this date — starting from March 2015.
At that time, the Russian bank "Petrocommerce," under the control of oil company "Lukoil" co-owners Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun, sold the shares of the Ukrainian bank to a "football team" — 11 individuals, each holding less than 10%. "Throughout 2015, the bank’s shareholders (and its real controllers) Ivan Shekhovtsov and Oleksiy Krupiy repeatedly informed the National Bank of their intention to legally formalize the bank’s shares in their name, but only submitted the relevant document packages to the regulator in December," — indicated the NBU.
And in late February - early March 2016, without warning, they sold the bank’s shares to other "football players" (another group of 11 individuals), after which they announced they had left the bank’s shareholders and withdrew the document packages. At the same time, the bank experienced liquidity issues.
According to DIF, another financial institution — PJSC "Union Standard Bank" — was involved in the asset withdrawal schemes from the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine." It has been considered part of the orbit of Dmytro Fomenko — former financial director of the Dnipro industrial-financial group "Concord." Together with Olena Sosyedka (owner of the scandalous bank "Concord"), Fomenko owned the predecessor of PJSC "Union Standard Bank" — created in Dnipropetrovsk CJSC "Financial Union Bank" ("FSB").
The Fund believes that by prior conspiracy between officials of the two banks, an agreement was concluded shortly before the introduction of temporary administration, under which "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" acquired the right to claim under five loan agreements secured by "junk" securities.
"For the assignment of the claim in its favor, the bank paid 206 million UAH, receiving on the balance loans whose interest were not paid and were not redeemed by borrowers within the contract terms," — reads in the DIF statement. As a result of the transactions, a liquid loan portfolio, secured by real estate, was actually withdrawn from the bank. Thus, the rights to claim under 19 loan agreements with a balance value of 424 million UAH were transferred to a financial company for 172 million UAH. But even this money movement occurred only on paper, without the contribution of "live" money.
Source — fg.gov.ua
It is worth noting that from "Union Standard Bank" itself, judging by the materials of criminal proceedings No. 12015100000000974, money was withdrawn by a similar scheme: by issuing clearly unfavorable loans to enterprises with signs of fictitiousness, and the losses exceeded half a billion UAH.
As a result, Union Standard Bank was recognized as insolvent at the end of 2015.
The statement by the DIF, made a year and a half after the bankruptcy of "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" bank, appears to be driven by the active stage of the investigation of the committed manipulations. Currently, the DIF reports that several criminal proceedings have been opened based on these facts, which are at the stage of pre-trial investigations. Meanwhile, there is no information that any of the shareholders or top managers of Petrocommerce have been charged with crimes.
In the end, the DIF was left with not even a suitcase without a handle, but just the handle — the balance sheet value of the assets included in the liquidation mass of "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" bank amounts to 1.158 billion UAH. At the same time, the market value of the assets, determined by independents, is five times less — 221 million UAH. A similar situation pertains to loans issued by the bank to individuals and legal entities. On paper, their value is 1 billion UAH, but in reality — 209 million UAH. And, as the DIF indicate, even the estimated value of the bank’s assets cannot be realized.
01 December 2017 г., 22:57
