Security expert Serhiy Shabovta has expressed serious concerns about the work of the Asset Tracking and Management Agency (ARMA), claiming that the agency is not enforcing court decisions, in particular in the case of the return of 455.5 thousand euros to BNK-Ukraine LLC. According to him, these funds may have “disappeared,” raising questions about the transparency and effectiveness of ARMA’s work.
The other day, ARMA got into another scandal. This time it became known that for more than a year the agency has not returned 455.5 thousand euros (almost 22 million hryvnias) to LLC “BNK-Ukraine”, which is in the process of bankruptcy and is being liquidated. The head of ARMA, Olena Duma, refused to return the funds to the liquidator of the LLC with accrued interest, which is why the latter went to court. ARMA lost the courts of first and appellate instance and appealed to the Supreme Court with a cassation appeal. After the court decision came into force, the liquidator received two court orders, following which the State Treasury Service froze ARMA’s accounts.
Once again we see the same mosaic circle in which ARMA acts absolutely criminally, contrary to the legislation that defines its tasks and activities. And this is not the first situation when ARMA essentially steals money. And what gets into ARMA disappears somewhere. Strangely, but no one is responsible for this. This is a crime of the authorities
In his opinion, ARMA was created from the very beginning for such crimes, and this cannot happen in any civilized state.
ARMA is a large criminal group for which laws are nothing. ARMA is “covered” by officials, the floor on which these officials are located is very high
Recently, the Asset Tracking and Management Agency (ARMA) and its head Olena Duma have often appeared in scandals about inefficient management of seized assets or inaction.
Thus, ARMA found itself in the spotlight due to the loss of the Royal Romance yacht, which belonged to Viktor Medvedchuk, a former People's Deputy suspected of treason. After all, despite the arrest of the yacht by a Croatian court and its transfer to Ukraine for sale, ARMA was unable to sell the asset for two years.
Having investigated the topic, it was possible to find out that the main delay in the sale of the yacht of the former People's Deputy-traitor arose due to the fact that the head of ARMA Olena Duma spent almost half a year preparing amendments to the legislation for the sale of foreign assets. At the same time, at the time of her appointment to ARMA, the Prosecutor General's Office, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had already prepared a draft of amendments, but the Duma categorically rejected it.
In this regard, ARMA only launched a competition to select a seller to sell the yacht on March 20, 2024, and a month later selected the winner. It is worth noting that the winner was selected a month before the maximum term of seizure of this asset expired, which made its sale virtually impossible.
Former People's Deputy Ihor Mosiychuk believes that ARMA head Olena Duma acted in Medvedchuk's interests by delaying the sale of his yacht. He even appealed to the State Bureau of Investigation and the National Police of Ukraine with statements alleging that Olena Duma committed crimes, in particular in the situation with the yacht.
