NABU places former PrivatBank official on wanted list
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has placed former board chairman at PrivatBank Oleksandr Dubilet on the wanted list, Acting Chairman of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office Maksym Hryshchuk has told Ukrinform.
Dubilet is suspected of involvement in the embezzlement of
UAH 8 billion from the bank before it was nationalized in late 2016.
"A [NABU] detective has made the decision to put
Oleksandr Dubilet on the wanted list," Hryshchuk said.
On March 15, NABU approved suspicion notices for three
former PrivatBank officials – former board chairman Oleksandr Dubilet, his
deputy and the head of the bank's division on interbank operations. They are
suspected of embezzling UAH 8 billion.
According to the investigation, Dubilet, on the last day
before the bank was declared insolvent in December 2016, sent letters to a
banking institution located in an EU country asking to repay the debt of two
large agricultural companies on previously issued letters of credit at the
expense of PrivatBank funds stored on the correspondent account in this bank.
NABU believes that PrivatBank officials forged bank
documents and made unauthorized changes to the bank's balance sheet and the
previously created electronic documents in the bank's electronic system in
order to conceal this crime later on.
In late February this year, former board chairman at
PrivatBank Dubilet, former deputy chairman of the bank Volodymyr Yatsenko and a
former head of a bank division were declared suspects in embezzling UAH 136
million.
PrivatBank was nationalized in December 2016. The state
recapitalized the bank for UAH 155 billion. As of December 31, 2018, the
portfolio of non-performing loans of PrivatBank, which is linked to its
previous owners, was estimated to be worth UAH 212.795 billion.
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