An organized crime group has been exposed in the capital, which, using forged documents and fictitious companies, embezzled 56 million hryvnias. The funds were obtained in the form of loans and leasing through property manipulation, forged passports, and fictitious legal transactions.
The editorial staff of 368.media received access to the materials of the criminal proceedings under Part 2 of Article 15, Part 5 of Article 190, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In 2017, the fraudster and his brother took over Matrix-Group LLC (EDRPOU 40000514) using the passport of a resident of Luhansk region, which they re-registered the company with. Later, other fictitious individuals were used: Oleg Prokopyuk, Oleksandr Zamula, and Ihor Kostromin. Their documents were also forged — the attackers pasted their photos into other people's passports.
During 2019–2022, the organizer of the scam, having experience in business, created a fictitious positive credit history, increasing the company's limit at Altbank to UAH 29 million. Later, the group provided false documents for the “production line” to use it as collateral — and received:
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UAH 26.7 million under a revolving credit line agreement,
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UAH 3.97 million — under an overdraft agreement.
New victim — Tecom-Leasing
No later than November 2020, the organizers decided to seize the funds of the company "Tekom-Leasing" LLC (Odesa, EDRPOU 33509465). Under the guise of supplying a TOSHIBA IS-550 GSW injection molding machine (Japan), a contract for UAH 24.6 million was concluded between the company "Manatic" and "Tekom-Leasing".
The production equipment, which was transferred under the terms of leasing to Astra-Mash LLC, actually did not exist or was a completely different property. It was “registered” at the address: Kyiv region, Chernogorodka village, Irpinska st., 1.
The act of final fraud is fake theft
In February 2023, the organizer of the scam, posing as the director of Matrix Group, filed a police report alleging theft of equipment. This gave rise to a request to the insurance company USG for compensation. However, the insurer refused to pay due to lack of grounds.
Suspicions declared
In March 2025, the man was reported on suspicion of committing fraud on a particularly large scale, attempted embezzlement of funds, as well as legalization of proceeds from crime. The person in question is also the head or beneficiary of a number of companies:
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LLC "EVEREST - SERVICE"
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LLC "ECOTECHNOTARA"
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LLC "PRODINTORG"
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Extraplast Ukraine LLC
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Automatics-Service LLC
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LLC "EN TECHNOLOGY"
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LLC "Manatic"
His brother and accomplice, Petro Ivanovich Baluta, also appears in the case.
