In July 2016, the National Bank provided information for crime investigations in the banking sphere.
As it is reported, in July 2016, in accordance within the established procedure NBU provided temporary access to the evidence and documents within the investigation of crimes, committed in the banking sphere, including upon the initiative of:
- National Anti-Corruption Bureau – 4 times;
- General Prosecutor’s Office – 2 times;
- National Police of Ukraine – 3 times;
- SSSU – 1 time;
- State Fiscal Service – 1 time.
“Today we see multiple violations of banking legislation. Meanwhile, neither heinous court decision on these violations was still taken. I hope that law enforcement will soon be able to bring to court the cases of violation of banking legislation, and this will also contribute to the clearing of banking system”, - NBU Deputy Chairman Ekaterina Rozhkova noted.
For the first half of 2016 the National Bank provided law enforcement with a temporary access to the documents, within investigation on 49 criminal proceedings, 69 times in total.
As per NBU data, currently the pretrial investigation of the above-mentioned criminal proceedings is continuing.
It should be reminded that for seven months of 2016 the National Bank of Ukraine forwarded to law enforcement agencies 24 letters with information that the clients of 41 banks conducted or intended to conduct suspicious financial transactions. In particular, the information on clients of 11 banks was forwarded just in July, according to the message of the regulator, Economic Truth reports.
