The Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine exposed a large -scale financial scheme, which was laundered over UAH 56 million due to illegal exchange offices operating in Transcarpathia. The key role in it was played by three former bank managers who used their professional skills to organize a shadow network under the brands of Orange Finance and Kurs Uz UA.
The details of the criminal activity were reported by the detective bureau of ABSURTION.
The center of the investigation is Igor Grabar, Dmitry Gontar and Alexander Rimek. Former banks of banks, they created a system that allowed to convert cash foreign currency into a non -cash form, to carry it through accounts with Pravex Bank, the meaning of the bank and AB "Southern", and then return funds to cash again - already in national currency.
The network covered more than 40 illegal exchangers that operated without the NBU licenses. At the same time, operations for hundreds of thousands of hryvnias were carried out without the identification of clients, without reporting to SCFM and without the use of cash registers (PPOs). Separate operations with cryptocurrencies were not recorded at all.
Formally exchangers worked through companies registered with suspects, including:
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LLC "Interchaja Ukraine"
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Interkesh online
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Interke Ukraine (Intercash Ukraine)
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Orandj Finance
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"Condict Finance"
On paper, they were allegedly engaged in microcredit and rental of real estate, but in fact were a cover for shadow financial activities.
The volumes of washed the funds according to babi calculations:
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Dmitry Gontar - UAH 24.8 million
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Alexander Rimek - UAH 15.8 million
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Igor Grabar - 15.5 million UAH
At the same time, the declared income of each of them in 2001–2018 amounted to only UAH 2.4–3.7 million.
During searches, the persons seized computer equipment, registrars, rough accounting and documentation confirming illegal activity. The investigation is ongoing, other involved persons and amounts of funds that have passed through the network are installed.
This case is another example of how educated bankers with experience in the financial sector choose not legitimate activities, but schemes that undermine confidence in the country's foreign exchange market.
Against the background of exposing this scheme, the banking scams of the Sisters from the Dnieper, which have turned multimillion -dollar frauds for 20 years, are mentioned. First, through one bank, they brought currency to fictitious firms, then created a new - Koncord Bank, through which money was scrolled, including for Russian cryptographers. All these stories once again demonstrate the scale and depth of the financial shadow in Ukraine.
