Churkin wanted to keep his property in Lviv/Collage of Channel 24
Russian oligarch Churkin tried to keep the company's property by fraud. The object is located in Lviv.
This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation. Churkin and his accomplice received suspicion.
“A large Ukrainian enterprise, Lviv Bus Plants LLC, took out a significant loan from a state bank secured by its property. Its owner, Russian citizen Igor Churkin, spent the money at his own discretion and refused to return the bank's loan funds,” the DBR said.
How the oligarch acted
Churkin did not want to lose the pledged resources of the bus plant. To do this, he came up with a criminal scheme to block the auction for the sale of collateral by a Ukrainian bank.
Subsequently, the head of the enterprise, who was in cahoots with the Russian, filed a false report of a criminal offense with the bank's representatives to the police. The director of the plant accused officials of a fictitious, especially grave criminal offense. Therefore, law enforcement officers registered criminal proceedings and seized the pledged property.
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What threatens the defendants in the case
Churkin and the head of the debtor enterprise were informed of suspicion under the article on deliberately false notification of the pre-trial investigation body about the commission of a criminal offense, in combination with the accusation of a person of a particularly serious crime. The article provides for up to 5 years in prison.
What preceded this
At the beginning of June 2022 ” Ukreximbank put up for auction the debt of the Lviv Bus Plant, as the legal entity of the borrower was declared bankrupt. At the auction planned to get about 76.5 million hryvnia. The auction was supposed to take place on July 5.
Earlier, on May 4, the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, said that due to a full-scale war in Ukraine, the plant could be nationalized.
