An accomplice is cooperating with the investigation in the case of ex-deputy Skuratovsky

Sergei Skuratovsky is a suspect in cases related to financial fraud, the amount of which amounts to 112 million hryvnia.

The court approved a plea agreement concluded with the appraiser, former director of the Cherkasy branch of Expert Technical Center Status LLC Rimma Bohun in the framework of the case on suspicion of former MP Sergei Skuratovsky of organizing the infliction of UAH 160 million in losses on a banking institution. This decision was made by the Sosnovsky District Court of Cherkassy on September 12, Slovo i Delo reports.

As indicated, in 2019, one of the suspects in the Skuratovsky case approached the appraiser Bohun with an offer to produce and transfer to him forged documents in the name of Expert Technical Center Status LLC for a monetary reward of 50 thousand hryvnia. We were talking about an agreement for the provision of services and a conclusion drawn up ostensibly for its implementation, without a real assessment of the cost, on the value of the rights of claim under loan agreements.

Bohun agreed to this proposal. Subsequently, she prepared a letter from the expert technical center “Status” to ARMA with a price proposal, according to which the cost of services for assessing the Rights of Claim was proposed in the amount of UAH 4,000. She signed this letter on behalf of the director of the LLC and sent the document to ARMA. The same letter was sent to the state enterprise “Setam”. Bogun also forged several other documents.

The accused herself admitted her guilt under parts 1, 3 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, that is, forgery of a document for the purpose of using it by another person and the sale of such a document.

“To find (Bogun – ed.) guilty of committing a criminal offense under Part 3 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code and impose a punishment agreed upon by the parties in the form of restriction of freedom for a period of two years. Release him from serving his sentence under Part 3 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on the basis of Art. 75 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with a trial period of one year. Find (Bogun - ed.) guilty of committing a criminal offense under Part 1 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code and assign her a punishment agreed upon by the parties in the form of restriction of freedom for a period of one year. Based on clause 2, part 1, art. 49, part 5 art. 74 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine to exempt from the imposed punishment under Part 1 of Art. 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine due to the expiration of the statute of limitations,” the decision says.

As you know, the anti-corruption court extended Skuratovsky’s arrest.

The publication recalls that NABU and SAPO reported suspicions to ex-People's Deputy Skuratovsky and other persons of assigning more than UAH 112 million to a financial institution. According to “Word and Deed”, we are talking about former deputy Sergei Skuratovsky.

According to investigators, in 2019 Skuratovsky, being the actual owner of a number of legal entities, was developing a plot of land on the outskirts of Kyiv. Construction was carried out using loan funds secured by a multi-apartment housing complex built in the future, land plots and a number of personal orders (including from the people's representative).

In order to avoid mortgage obligations and gain the opportunity to sell the constructed residential property, the people's deputy, with the involvement of the head of the department of the Main Investigation Department of the SBU (currently the person holds a senior position in the Central Office of the SBI), the head of the ARMA unit, the management of the state enterprise "Setam", as well as appraisers, organized unlawful alienation of the right of claim of a banking institution through the relevant national agency and state-owned enterprise.