Prosecutors of the Office of the Attorney General have sent an indictment to the court regarding a well-known businessman - a former shareholder of the largest financial institution in Ukraine and the former head of the capital's branch of this bank.

It has been established that members of the group created by the businessman forged bank documents, which allowed them to create the appearance of cash deposits into the bank's cash register on behalf of the organizer. Subsequently, the accused simulated the collection of the deposited funds to the capital's branch of the main office of the institution.

This allowed more than 5.3 billion UAH to be credited to the account of the former shareholder of the financial institution under the guise of convertible cash, allegedly deposited by the accused.

This amount was an asset of the banking institution, an oil extraction company, and participants in the joint investment activity agreement.

The businessman legalized part of the received funds amounting to 4.1 billion UAH.

The actions of the accused have been qualified as misappropriation of someone else's property, illegal actions with documents, official forgery, and legalization of property obtained by criminal means (Part 5 of Article 191, Part 3 of Article 209, Article 200, Article 366 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Materials regarding five other members of the group have been separated into individual criminal proceedings.

The pre-trial investigation was conducted by detectives of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine with operational support from the Security Service of Ukraine.

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 guilty verdict of the court.