New information has emerged regarding how Russian owners of the nationalized "Alfa Bank" are withdrawing funds from the already state-owned "Sens Bank." Meanwhile, the chairman Alexey Stupak continues to pretend that he is unaware of the situation.
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SubscribeThe scheme resembles the withdrawal of funds from the de-licensed payment service "Diamond Pay," but on an even larger scale.
This is detailed by Ukrainian journalist Evgeny Plinsky on his Telegram channel "Dirty Games."
Now, for the facts. LLC "Credit Initiatives" has filed a lawsuit in the Economic Court of Kyiv against LLC "Alfa-Leasing Ukraine" for the recovery of 164,923,494 UAH.
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However, as indicated by data from other court rulings, LLC "Alfa-Leasing Ukraine" has requested the court for an installment plan for the execution of the aforementioned decision. This means that the state bank will be making insignificant, unnoticed payments from its accounts.
But what does Russia have to do with it?
As far back as 2014, the media reported that "Credit Initiatives" is a pocket structure of the Russian "Alfa Bank."
0 LLC "Credit Initiatives," with a charter capital of 142 million UAH, does not have its own office and does not conduct business activities at its registered legal address. The founder of LLC "Credit Initiatives" is the offshore company "Chibeil Limited" from Nicosia (Cyprus), which actually belongs to PJSC "Alfa Bank" and is managed by its management.
1 It gets more interesting
In 2017, a criminal case was investigated regarding the assignment of non-problematic loans by "Alfa Bank" in favor of LLC "Credit Initiatives" for the withdrawal of refinancing funds from the NBU. Read on.
“In the framework of criminal proceedings No. 42015100000000381 regarding the issuance of refinancing loans by the National Bank to ‘Alfa Bank,’ the investigation includes the ‘systematic assignment of [by “Alfa Bank”] the right to claim under loan agreements that are not problematic and secured by collateral or mortgaged property in favor of LLC “Credit Initiatives,” at a reduced credit value with the aim of withdrawing bank funds and creating an artificial outflow of capital for conducting refinancing through LLC “Credit Initiatives.”
In 2022, detectives from the BEB began an investigation into case No. 42022000000000463 dated 14.04.2022.
“The pre-trial investigation established that the owners of JSC “Alfa Bank” together with its officials, to avoid possible negative consequences in the form of sanctions or measures to forcibly seize property rights as provided by the Law of Ukraine “On the Basic Principles of Forced Seizure in Ukraine of Property Objects of the Russian Federation and its Residents,” used fictitious transactions made without the intention of creating legal consequences conditioned by this transaction, legalized (laundered) property obtained through criminal means on a particularly large scale.”
And in this description, we are particularly interested in “ABH Ukraine Limited,” as according to the official information from the site (https://a-l.com.ua/pro-kompaniiu) “Alfa-Leasing Ukraine,” which is a debtor of LLC “Credit Initiatives,” is part of ABH Ukraine Limited, which is involved in the BEB investigation.
2 The puzzle fits together quite easily. In fact, the former Russian owners of "Alfa Bank," using a network of controlled Ukrainian companies, launched a scheme to withdraw funds from the nationalized bank through court decisions.
And the Chairman of the Board of "Sens Bank," Alexey Stupak, and his financial monitoring team are simply allowing hundreds of millions of hryvnias to flow out of the bank to the benefit of Russians. Meanwhile, we were surprised that money from the Russian "Diamond Pay" had disappeared. But it turns out this was a whole systematic operation.