Under the procedural guidance of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a scheme for embezzling funds from clients of a bank in Dnipro has been uncovered. Four individuals have been notified of suspicion, including the branch manager of the bank.

According to the investigation, the branch manager provided other members of the criminal group with information about the bank's clients, including details about their deposit accounts. 

Subsequently, two suspects, using the status of private executors, organized the illegal seizure of funds from the victims.

To do this, they used knowingly forged court decisions and fictitious notarial executive writings. Based on these, they opened enforcement proceedings that had no legal grounds and forcibly withdrew from clients' deposits allegedly existing debts.

These funds were transferred to the accounts of trusted persons. The search for such individuals and the organization of cashing out the money was handled by another member of the criminal group.

It has been established that from 2023 to 2025, the participants in the scheme carried out 11 episodes of illegal embezzlement of funds totaling over 50 million hryvnias.

The actions of the bank branch manager and the suspect who sought trusted persons have been qualified under part 4, 5 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – fraud committed on a particularly large scale, under martial law, using electronic computing technology.

In addition to fraud, the private executors are charged with official forgery and unauthorized actions with information that caused significant harm (part 4, 5 of Article 190, part 1, 4 of Article 358, part 3 of Article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

As a result of sanctioned searches at the residences of the suspects, documentation was discovered and seized, including originals of forged enforcement proceedings, and computer equipment that confirms the illegal activities.

The pre-trial investigation is being conducted by investigators of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region with operational support from the Cybercrime Prevention Department of the region.

Note: according to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a court verdict.