The former head of Rodovid Bank was found guilty but received a suspended sentence
The High Anti-Corruption Court found Dmytro Yegorenko, the former chairman of the board of Rodovid Bank, guilty of official misconduct but exempted him from punishment due to the statute of limitations.
The court found that in 2009–2010, the bank paid 18.5 million hryvnias in rent for premises in central Kyiv that it did not actually use. According to the prosecution, the lease agreements were fictitious, and the building was owned by the wife of a then-member of parliament.
Yegorenko was charged with official forgery and aiding and abetting the misappropriation of property through abuse of office on a particularly large scale.
The court found the charges proven. Under these charges, he faced up to 10 years in prison.
At the same time, the court concluded that punishment could not be imposed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for prosecution.
Yegorenko was charged back in 2018. At the time of sentencing, he was a fugitive, and the court ordered the search for him to be terminated.
The bankrupt Rodovid Bank is not the first Ukrainian financial institution from which capital was siphoned off through financial fraud. Some of these troubled banks are linked to Kateryna Rozhkova, the first deputy chair of the National Bank of Ukraine. From 2006 to 2009, she worked at Erste Bank and Finbank, and was also associated with Platinum Bank.
For example, Kateryna Rozhkova and her accomplices—the executives of Platinum Bank—must pay 1.5 billion hryvnias to the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals (DGF) — this decision was issued by the Commercial Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court in 2024.
Kateryna Rozhkova served as deputy chair of the board of Platinum Bank from 2013 and as acting chair of the financial institution’s board from 2014 to June 2015. When Platinum Bank began experiencing problems, she took the position of director of the NBU’s banking supervision department.
In 2020, it became known that Kateryna Rozhkova’s friend, Oleksiy Didkovsky, had earned half a billion hryvnias from the state-owned PrivatBank. Oleksiy Didkovsky’s law firm, Asters Consult, provided consulting services to the state-owned PrivatBank worth over half a billion hryvnias in 2019.
