In Kyiv, a former bank executive is suspected of embezzling five properties
The former acting head of a commercial bank has been notified that he is suspected of illegally disposing of five office properties worth more than 20 million hryvnias. According to the Kyiv police, the properties were privately owned by the bank and were located in five regions of Ukraine.
The scheme to illegally seize the real estate was uncovered by investigators from the Dnipro District Police Department in Kyiv under the procedural supervision of the Dnipro District Prosecutor’s Office in the capital.
According to the investigation, a 52-year-old Kyiv resident, while serving as acting chairman of the board of one of the commercial banks, decided to illegally take possession of five office premises owned by the financial institution. The properties in question are located in Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Odesa, Poltava, and the Sumy region.
Law enforcement officials determined that the suspect arranged for the disposal of the property by selling it to an individual. To do so, he used a forged minutes of a meeting of the bank’s board of directors, on the basis of which purchase and sale agreements were subsequently concluded.
As a result of the scheme, the suspect took possession of five properties with a total area of over 858 square meters, valued at over 20.2 million hryvnias. Currently, at the request of investigators, the court has placed a lien on the real estate.
Investigators have notified the suspect of charges under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 1 of Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — the drafting and issuance by a public official of knowingly false official documents, or the inclusion of knowingly false information therein, as part of a prior conspiracy by a group of individuals; and Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — misappropriation of another person’s property through a public official’s abuse of their official position, committed by a group of persons acting in concert, on an especially large scale.
The maximum penalty is up to 12 years of imprisonment.
Source: Kyiv Police Communications Department
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