Creator of "Concord" Dmytro Fomenko "surfaced" in the case of terrorist financiers

Creator of "Concord" Dmytro Fomenko "surfaced" in the case of terrorist financiers

The collapse of the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" led to traces of the "FSB".

On November 29, the Deposit Guarantee Fund announced that 700 million UAH had been withdrawn from the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" before it was declared insolvent. Back in March 2016, the NBU declared the bank insolvent, after which a temporary administration was introduced. All "scheme operations", as indicated by the Deposit Guarantee Fund, were conducted during the year up to this date — starting from March 2015.

At that time, the Russian bank "Petrocommerce", controlled by the co-owners of the oil company "Lukoil" Vagit Alekperov and Leonid Fedun, sold shares of the Ukrainian bank to a "football team" — 11 individuals, each holding less than 10%. "Throughout 2015, the bank’s shareholders (and its actual controllers) Ivan Shehavtsov and Oleksiy Krupiy repeatedly informed the National Bank about their intention to legally register the bank shares in their own names, but only submitted the relevant documents to the regulator in December," noted the NBU. At the end of February-beginning of March 2016, without any warning, they sold the bank shares to other "footballers" (another group of 11 individuals), after which they informed that they had left the bank’s shareholders and withdrew the documents. Meanwhile, the bank encountered liquidity problems.

According to the Deposit Guarantee Fund, another financial institution, PJSC "Union Standard Bank", was involved in the schemes of asset withdrawal from the bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine". It was considered to be within the orbit of Dmytro Fomenko, former financial director of the Dnipro industrial and financial group "Concord". Together with Olena Sosyedka (owner of the scandalously known bank "Concord"), Fomenko owned the predecessor of PJSC "Union Standard Bank", created in Dnipropetrovsk as CJSC "Financial Union Bank" ("FSB").

As the Fund believes, by prior conspiracy between officials of the two banks, a contract was signed shortly before the introduction of temporary administration, according to which bank "Petrocommerce-Ukraine" acquired claims under five credit agreements secured by "junk" securities. "For the assignment of the claim in its favor, the bank paid 206 million UAH, receiving credits on the balance, the interest on which was not paid and which were not repaid by the borrowers within the terms defined by the agreements," stated the Deposit Guarantee Fund. As a result of the transactions conducted, a liquid credit portfolio secured by real estate was actually withdrawn from the bank. Thus, claims under 19 credit agreements with a book value of 424 million UAH were transferred to a financial company for 172 million UAH. But the movement of even these funds occurred only on paper, without the transfer of "live" money.

It is worth noting that money was withdrawn from "Union Standard Bank" itself, judging by the materials of criminal proceedings No. 12015100000000974, by a similar scheme: by issuing knowingly unfavorable loans to enterprises with signs of fictitiousness, and the losses from this exceeded half a billion hryvnias. As a result, Union Standard Bank was declared insolvent at the end of 2015.

It should be noted that managers of "Petrocommercebank" were involved in a case on financing terrorism.

Recall: On October 8, 2015, the Zhovtnevyi Court of Zaporizhzhya issued a guilty verdict against a Kharkiv resident for financing a terrorist organization on the territory of the "LPR".

In October 2014, the accused met a terrorist with the nickname "Nikolayevych", who, along with a group of residents from the Zaporizhzhya region, went to the Luhansk region and led an illegal formation — the "Cossack regiment" "Yarga" stationed in Antratsyt.

The accused, heading the Donetsk branch of "Petrocommercebank", agreed to finance the gang formation. For this, the bank employee gathered a team of residents of the Donetsk region, who were to conduct financial operations in the Zaporizhya and Kherson regions: exchanging money that bandits had stolen from seized enterprises.

The accomplice of the terrorists exchanged marked money for hryvnias, rubles, and dollars, after which they were used to finance "Yarga".

The accused received 500 thousand hryvnias, which she brought to Melitopol, exchanged for rubles and handed over in the occupied territory in Luhansk to the bandits. The accused conducted the operation several times, transferring a million hryvnias for the needs of the terrorists from April to July.

During one of the operations, the banker was detained by SSU employees on the territory of Berdyansk.

Since the accused made a deal, the Zhovtnevyi Court sentenced her to 5 years in prison with the right to engage in activities related to the conduct of currency exchange operations for a period of two years without confiscation of property. But the sentence was mitigated to 3 years of probation. If during this time the accomplice of the terrorists does not commit a new offense, the conviction will be expunged.

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