Concealed the theft of $20 million from "Ukrnafta" on February 24, 2022: bank employee to face trial

Law enforcement officers have sent an indictment to court against the deputy head of a department of one of the commercial banks. The woman is accused of illegally withdrawing $20 million from the state oil company "Ukrnafta" on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Details

According to the investigation, the woman concealed a crime, as a result of which $20 million was illegally withdrawn from the account of a large oil refining company, which is currently state-owned.

Investigators also established that on February 24, 2022, when the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began, an organized group of persons led by a member of the company's supervisory board used a forged contract for the supply of crude oil and fictitious invoices for payment, after which they illegally transferred the specified amount to the account of a foreign company controlled by the supervisory board member.

The bank employee, abusing her official position, entered false information into a copy of the forged contract about its alleged early receipt by the bank. She also destroyed the originals of the real contract and payment documents, which ensured the cover-up of the illegal transaction.

Recall

In late July, law enforcement officers from Ukraine, France, and Europol exposed the developer of one of the world's most famous hacker platforms in Kyiv.