Scandalous judicial raiding: MP Konstantin Bondarev and other former Veles Bank owners legalized the robbery of the NBU for 105 million hryvnias

Pavel Zotov
23:41, 07 мая 2020
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Scandalous judicial raiding: MP Konstantin Bondarev and other former Veles Bank owners legalized the robbery of the NBU for 105 million hryvnias

Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court has sided with former Veles Bank shareholders (Bondarev, Goncharova, Kandyba) and ordered the National Bank of Ukraine to pay them 105 million UAH.

The April 16 decision notes that the plaintiffs view this amount as compensation for the “property damage” they incurred when the NBU prevented them from exercising their corporate rights in the bank’s capital after its liquidation.

The former owners of Veles Bank noted that administrative courts had canceled the NBU’s resolution on the liquidation of Veles, while the NBU and the Deposit Guarantee Fund did not take measures to restore the bank’s operations and return its assets.

Taking this into account, the court stated that "as a result of the defendant’s issuance of an illegal decision to revoke the banking license and liquidate JSC ’Veles Bank,’ the plaintiffs were unlawfully and without proper compensation deprived of their private right to corporate rights evidenced by shares of the banking institution."

The National Bank decided to revoke the banking license and liquidate PJSC ’Veles Bank’ in December 2015 for engaging in risky activities and violating legislation in the field of financial monitoring.

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The NBU stated that prior to this, the regulator had prevented an attempt to withdraw approximately $460 million abroad using documents with signs of fictitiousness, after which the regulator ordered an inspection of the bank regarding financial monitoring issues.

During the inspection, facts of the bank engaging in risky activities were revealed. The National Bank also identified a number of operations aimed at evading restrictions of currency legislation and financial monitoring requirements.

In addition, according to the NBU, 90% of the bank’s operations were related to capital outflow (including transferring funds abroad), including the use of forged documents. In 2015, their volume exceeded $100 million.