The former deputy chairman of the board of the Finance and Credit bank was informed of suspicion of theft of almost 560.5 million hryvnia. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
— The former owner of the bank created a criminal organization back in 2010, through which the institution’s money was stolen, undermining the Ukrainian economy. Due to criminal actions, more than UAH 147 million was illegally withdrawn from bank accounts. and 17 million euros of loan funds, they were soon withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine, the report says.
The total amount of illegally withdrawn funds is about half a billion hryvnia.
On November 10, the Supreme Court of France refused to extradite the Ukrainian oligarch and owner of the Finance and Credit bank Konstantin Zhevago, and all restrictions were lifted from him.
According to the investigation, in 2002 Zhevago acquired 40.19% of the shares of the mining and processing plant from four companies. 18 years later, the former shareholders filed a lawsuit in the economic court to declare the purchase and sale agreement invalid and return the shares of the mining and processing plant. On April 19, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the oligarch.
On May 15, the Chairman of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, was arrested for a bribe of $2.7 million, which he was supposed to receive from Zhevago for a court decision in favor of the businessman. Zhevago denied this, claiming that he did not give a bribe.
