Former director of the state enterprise "Spetstechnoexport" Pavlo Barbul, who is under investigation by the Supreme Court of Ukraine for corruption, is actively trying to remove any mention of himself from the Internet. In the meantime, he was able to legalize about $ 150,000 through a series of suspiciously similar court decisions.
These are cases where Barbul sued debtors and received collection of funds under debt receipts. The plaintiff in these cases was his lawyer Alla Totska. Interestingly, the defendants in the courts did not object to the lawsuits, which looks very strange and raises suspicions of using the courts to legalize funds.
After Barbul was dismissed from his position in June 2018 by agreement of the parties, he declared 7.35 million hryvnias in cash. The NACP did not conduct any checks on his assets at that time. After that, the former official engaged in usurious activities.
For example, in January 2020, Barbul lent $100,000 to Kyiv resident Dmytro Stelmashov at 3% per annum. The funds were supposed to be returned at the end of February, but the defendant did not do so. The court decided to collect the debt and interest in the amount of $6,230, and the defendant did not object to the lawsuit.
In August 2023, a court in Ternopil ruled in favor of Barbul in the case against Volodymyr Glowak, who received $135,000 in 2018 and 2020 at 3% per annum. The court collected a debt and interest of 257,200 hryvnias.
The latest case is the decision of the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv dated November 27, 2024. The lawsuit for $15,000 against Mykhailo Honchar was satisfied, including annual interest of 31.8 thousand hryvnias.
Experts suggest that such a series of similar court decisions without appeal may be a scheme to legalize Barbul's funds.
