Viktor Subbotin, general director of JSC Ukrainian Energy Machines (formerly Turboatom), withdrew money from a state-owned enterprise through a bank controlled by him and is trying to employ a former manager of his financial institution on the supervisory board of the state-owned company.
Ex-People's Deputy Alexander Chernenko reported this on Facebook.
We are talking about JSC Megabank, owned by Viktor Subbotin and declared insolvent in June 2022.
“The problems (at the bank) arose not because of a full-scale war, but long before it. Despite this, the owner of the bank, Viktor Subbotin, persistently added Turboatom’s money to his accounts... In total, he credited UAH 1.4 billion. This money will most likely be lost,” Chernenko wrote.
According to him, Subbotin “extends” Mark Becker to the supervisory board of Ukrenergomashiny. He worked with Subbotin at Megabank and was Igor Rainin’s first deputy when he headed the Kharkov Regional State Administration.
“Steal money from a state-owned company, and then employ an accomplice to steal even more? It’s hard for me to remember the scheme in a more cynical way,” notes the former people’s deputy.
Chernenko recalled that Subbotin headed Turboatom in 2007. In this position, he “survived” 3 presidents, 8 governments, a revolution, and now “actually stole 1.4 billion UAH from a warring state.”
“Even after this he is not going to resign, although he should be going to a pre-trial detention center,” Chernenko wrote.
As reported by the media, on September 13, 2023, the Guarantee Fund failed to realize the assets of JSC Megabank, namely the rights of claim under 105 loan agreements, for which residential and commercial real estate were transferred as security, in particular a cinema and a grain elevator in Kharkov and the region. The assets were sold in one lot for about UAH 2.2 billion. The auction failed due to lack of participants.
