Natalia Vasilyuk
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal satisfied the complaint of the Prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for another suspect in the case of taking over VAB Bank 1, 2 billion hryvnia of a stabilization loan, namely to the former chairman of the supervisory board of this financial institution, Natalya Vasilyuk, writes delo.
According to the SAPO, after the arrest and delivery to the investigating authority, the investigator judge will decide on the application this preventive measure.
Recall that earlier in November, the VAKS Chamber of Appeal arrested in absentia another person involved in the case – the former head of the board of VAB Bank Denis Maltsev, who is now also on the wanted list. Natalia Vasilyuk herself is the sister of Oleg Bakhmatyuk, the former beneficiary of the bank.
According to the investigation conducted by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, in October 2014, VAB Bank, classified as problematic, turned to the National Bank of Ukraine with a request to provide it with a stabilization a loan secured by real estate.
Despite the fact that the bank did not provide all the necessary documents for this, the NBU Board, contrary to the requirements of the law, accepted this proposal. At the same time, the same banking institution had previously received a loan of UAH 3 billion from the National Bank, which it never returned.
At the same time, it turned out that the value of real estate pledged by the NBU under the , was overstated by almost 25 times (72.62 million hryvnias against 1.8 billion) as a result of forgery of valuation reports.
40 days after the allocation of this loan, in November 2014, the regulator declared VAB Bank insolvent, and in March 2015 decided to liquidate it. He did not wait for the money. The bank itself is still in the process of liquidation.
The NABU investigation of the case has been conducted since October 2016, and completed in July 2021. Then the bureau reported that there were 14 people involved: nine NBU officials, including the former first deputy head of the National Bank (Oleksandr Pysaruk); ex-deputy head of the board of VAB Bank (Andrey Yatsyuta), deputy director of the company that prepared the review of the bank’s property valuation, as well as three officials of private companies associated with the bank’s beneficiaries.
Investigations on suspicion of three more people — Bakhmatyuk, Maltsev and Vasilyuk were separated into separate proceedings, which were stopped in connection with the search for these persons.
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