The Kyiv Pechersk Court declined to remove attachment from property of Mykola Lahun. The property, pledged under the mortgage agreement, amounting to UAH 22 mln, was illegally funneled out of Delta Bank. The liquidation estate of Delta Bank was estimated at UAH 29.04 bln. The Kyiv Pechersk Court refused to remove attachment from Mykola Lahun’s property. The Kyiv Pechersk District Court declined the lawyer of bankrupt Delta Bank owner Mykola Lagun to remove attachment from the property in criminal proceeding №15088000013, which was imposed by the investigating judge of this court on March 30, 2016, as part of the international legal aid, as stated in the ruling of the Pechersk Court dd. August 8, 2016.

According to the document, the Central Investigation Department of the Chief Office of Investigation Department of the Republic of Belarus established that within the period from December 2012 to March 2015, as a result of the financial and economic relations with Banburry Management Limited (Belize), the shareholder and board member of the Belarussian Delta Bank (as per the data of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, its sole owner was Mykola Lahun; in Ukraine he controlled the same-name, also bankrupt, Delta Bank), acting in concert with the chairman of the management board of the specified financial institution, his deputy, board member – independent director and other individuals, in previous concert, intentionally created and further increased the arrears as well as covered up the insolvency of the Belarussian Delta Bank, and, by doing so, caused damages to lenders (clients and depositors) in a particularly large amount.

“During the period between December 2012 to March 2015, these persons, being in Minsk, embezzled the funds of Delta Bank in a particularly large amount, using the bank details and settlement accounts of Banbury Management Limited”, - according to the ruling of the Kyiv Pechersk Court.

Due to the evidence found, on November 2, 2015, the investigator of the Investigation Committee of the Republic of Belarus upon consultation with Deputy General Prosecutor of Belarus sanctioned attachment of the Mykola Lahun’s property and asked the Ukrainian party to assist in conducting attachment procedure.

At the time of submission of petition to provide international legal aid, as per the Interior Ministry of Ukraine, Lahun owned the following movable property: three cars Land Rover, Range Rover and Porsche. On March 30, the Kyiv Pechersk District Court seized the specified movable property, and, on August 8, this court declined the Lahun’s lawyer to satisfy the petition, as it found the relevant evidence of Lahun’s defender unsound.

Source: RBC-Ukraine.