Housing in Crimea and business in the Russian Federation: liquidator of Ukrainian banks Svetlana Groshova transferred assets to her Muscovite son

A modest civil servant, a millionaire in a chic fur coat, or a “canned” agent of the Russian Federation?

At the request of the prosecutor's office, the court arrested the assets of Svetlana Groshova, who, under the “roof” of the Federal Guarantee Fund, supervised the liquidation of bankrupt domestic financial institutions. Indeed, in the declaration, the officials, among other elite property, found real estate in occupied Crimea and corporate rights of a Russian company. But now Groshova is seeking to lift the seizure of profitable assets.

How did the liquidator of the Ukrainian banks “Finance and Credit” and “Platinum” Svetlana Groshova acquire an elite fortune and make investments in the economy of a hostile state? And where do so many millionaire officials come from in the ranks of the Individual Deposit Guarantee Fund?

According to the electronic declaration published by NAPC, the liquidator of the banks “Finance and Credit”, “Platinum” and other bankrupt financial institutions of Ukraine, Svetlana Groshova, earned more than UAH 1.3 million in 2022. In addition, the woman declared jewelry worth 800 thousand UAH: among her “achievements” are a sable fur coat, jewelry and expensive watches.

But all this is a “drop in the bucket” compared to the real estate and income-generating assets of the FGVFL employee.

In the same 2022, that is, already in the midst of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation, the official declared three cars, three apartments and parking spaces in the capital, an apartment and a house in the Dnieper, an estate and a number of other real estate in the Dnepropetrovsk region, as well as an apartment and other real estate by the sea in annexed Crimea. Moreover, Denezhnaya owns assets in Russia, which it acquired from 2019 to 2022, including apartments and other non-residential premises.

And literally two weeks before the start of the large-scale invasion, in February 2022, Monetary invested funds directly in the Russian economy, becoming a co-owner of the Kartek enterprise. This company also includes citizens of Russia and the company VALARTIS CONSULTING, which is the owner of RIMBORSO-RUSSIA LLC, whose main activity is operations for managing distressed assets.

According to media reports, in order to avoid sanctions and the possible nationalization of Russian assets, Denezhnaya re-registered the share in this company in the name of his son Stanislav, who lives in Moscow and has Russian citizenship. And although the liquidator’s assets were eventually seized, she is still fighting in the courts to unfreeze them.

Is it really possible that a person directly connected with the aggressor country worked freely in the ranks of the Deposit Guarantee Fund for so many years and also earned good money?

“This indicates that Russian intelligence works on a 5-point rating scale of 5 plus. I’m sure that she appointed her son as the founder of that company, because the FSB pointed the finger at her: hey, what are you doing? It is not random people who take up such positions. People call them “canned food”; they are not active agents, but perform the function of providing information,” says ATO veteran Konstantin Ilchenko.

Let us remind you that the Deposit Guarantee Fund refused to provide a response to StopCor’s request about the state of management. Therefore, journalists analyzed open data and discovered: the head of the Deposit Guarantee Fund, Svetlana Rekrut, declared more than 6 million in salary per year. This is almost 20 times more than Vladimir Zelensky and twice as much as European presidents.