PrivatBank case: the court collects UAH 5 million bail from the former deputy chairman of the bank's board
Kyiv • UNN
The HACCU has recovered UAH 5 million bail from Lyudmyla Shmalchenko for failure to appear in court and increased the bail to UAH 51 million. The case concerns the embezzlement of UAH 8.2 billion on the eve of the nationalization of Privatbank.
The High Anti-Corruption Court has recovered UAH 5 million of bail posted by a legal entity for former Deputy Chairman of the Board of PrivatBank PJSC Lyudmyla Shmalchenko, who failed to appear in court twice. UNN reports this with reference to the SAPO.
As UNN has learned from its own sources, it is about the top manager of Privatbank in the times of Kolomoisky, Lyudmyla Shmalchenko.
"On November 11, 2024, the HACCJ panel of judges upheld the motion of the SAPO prosecutor and recovered UAH 5 million of bail posted by a legal entity for the former deputy chairman of the board of Privatbank, who twice failed to appear in court," the statement said.
It is reported that the court found the reasons for the defendant's non-appearance to be disrespectful and, given the improper procedural behavior, decided to increase the bail amount to UAH 51 million as a preventive measure.
In addition, the court imposed the relevant procedural obligations on the defendant:
- to appear at every court request
- not to leave Dnipropetrovska oblast without a court order
- to notify the court of changes in their place of residence and place of work
- refrain from communicating with other defendants in the case and hand over all their passports of a citizen of Ukraine for traveling abroad and other documents authorizing them to leave and enter Ukraine to the relevant bodies of the State Migration Service.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for November 22, 2024.
Details of the case
The pre-trial investigation established that the former Chairman of the Board of Privatbank, his first deputy, deputy, as well as three heads of departments of the said bank in December 2016, the day before the bank was declared insolvent, paid about UAH 223 million at the expense of the bank in favor of companies controlled and related to Privatbank on the basis of false documents.
Funds were transferred in several tranches to two different companies: UAH 85.2 million to the account of one company related to the scheme participants, and another UAH 136.8 million to the account of another. Subsequently, the scheme participants withdrew these funds abroad for the purpose of legalization.
In addition, it was established that on the eve of the nationalization of the bank, these individuals embezzled more than UAH 8.2 billion by illegally writing off the obligations of non-resident companies to AS Privatbank (Latvia) at the expense of Privatbank's funds placed on correspondent accounts with AS Privatbank (Latvia). In addition, in order to further impede the collection of funds in favor of PJSC CB Privatbank and to cover up the crime, the individuals organized an illegal and documentarily unsubstantiated replacement of the debtor with a company controlled by and related to PJSC CB Privatbank.
