Despite the sanctions of President Vladimir Zelensky against Alfa-Bank and its owner Michael Friedman, the Russian financial institution managed to withdraw $ 3 million from Ukraine. In this process, the Key Court of Kyiv and the Ministry of Justice, in particular the executive service, headed by Deputy Minister of Justice Andriy Gaychenko, played a key role.
In March 2024, the Commercial Court ruled to recover from Alfa Bank in favor of Credit Initiatives LLC about $ 4 million (case 910/161/51/23). On August 7, 2024, the payment was approved by February 28, 2025. The founder of Credit Investment LLC is the Cyprus offshore company "Chibeil Limited". According to journalists, this company is affiliated with Alfa-Bank and is guided by its management. Thus, instead of collecting the funds of the nationalized bank to the state budget, the funds found themselves in the offshore accounts of the structures of the bank itself.
The role of Minjust in the scheme
According to sources, Andrey Gaychenko played a key role in this scheme and the vertical of state executors under the control of state executors. In violation of the legislation, enforcement proceedings were opened by court decision in the Obolon Department of the State Executive Service (No. 76148783, 76111629, 76032219, 75875334). Instead, such cases should be considered at the level of the central apparatus because of large amounts in particular.
Thanks to this scheme, the funds were transferred to the Alfa-Bank's foreign accounts instead of collection in favor of Ukraine.
Alfa-Bank's claims against Ukraine
In addition to the fact that the Bank was able to withdraw funds, its holding structure ABH Holdings filed an international lawsuit against Ukraine for $ 1 billion through sanctions and nationalization. The Dutch company "Emis", affiliated with Friedman, has recently made an additional claim of $ 400 million. Ministry of Justice and Minister Olga Stephanyshyn are being held from comments.
Gaychenko and Relations with Alfa-Bank
Interesting fact: Andriy Gaychenko himself was part of the structure of ABH Holdings, which is now calling against Ukraine. This holding in 2016 purchased the Russian Alfa-Bank and Ukrainian Ukrsotsbank, in which Gaychenko worked for 12 years (2005-2017).
Political and family aspect
Alfa-Bank has been under sanctions since 2023, and its activities should be under special state control. However, the Ministry of Justice actually helped to withdraw millions of dollars that could go to Ukraine's restoration.
This is not the only scandal related to Gaychenko. His wife's relatives: conduct business in Crimea; have Russian passports received in 2014; They are representatives of the Patriots of Russia Processes.
Gaychenko categorically denies the presence of such relatives, but the situation should understand the SBU. (Source)
Other scandals around the Ministry of Justice
Earlier, the Supreme Court overturned a decision that could allow companies related to Surkis's brothers to recover $ 350 million from a nationalized Privatbank. The enforcement of such decisions and the executive service - as noted above, the competence of Andrei Gaychenko, so it was re -mentioned in the media as a collector withdrawal of public funds. (Source)
Conclusions
The Ministry of Justice, which should provide sanctions, has actually contributed to the withdrawal of $ 3 million to offshore Russian structures. At the same time, the Ministry of Justice will now be responsible for the protection of Ukraine in international courts in disputes with Alfa-Bank. In general, the topic of efficiency of sanctions imposed by President Vladimir Zelensky against Russians and structures contributing to aggression against Ukraine, and the implementation of these sanctions by Ministry - is now being investigated for separate material. According to public data, since 2022 sanctions have been imposed against 8 359 individuals and 6 582 legal entities.
