Yanukovych-era National Bank of Ukraine Managers Detained

Law enforcement officers have detained two former top managers of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) who are accused of involvement in a criminal organization controlled by ex-President Yanukovych, Military Prosecutor Anatolii Matios reported on his Facebook page.

According to the note disclosed by him, ex-Deputy Head of the NBU Oleksii Tkachenko and ex-Director of the Department of Banking Supervision Roman Yakovliev were detained with regard to the case of a criminal organization involving Yanukovych, oligarch Sergiy Kurchenko and ex-Head of the NBU Ihor Sorkin.

During the pre-trial investigation, law enforcement officers concluded that Tkachenko and Yakovliev along with Kurchenko and Sorkin had entered into a conspiracy with the ex-Chair of the Board of Real Bank Volodymyr Agafonov to embezzle ₴787 million ($31.5 million) from the NBU budget. The NBU allegedly provided this money to Real Bank as a stabilization loan.

The prosecutor’s office requested the court to put the suspects in jail while the investigation is ongoing.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda