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Later, the document was groundlessly classified as a state secret by the PGO and no details of the court case were revealed to the public by prosecutors. The analysis of the published decision showed that document does not include any information that can be classified as state secret under Ukrainian law. Moreover, most of the information has been disclosed in other court decisions already publicly available in the court register.
The document consists of about 100 pages. It describes activity of the “Yanukovych’s criminal organization” and its “subdivision” – the so-called “group of companies SEPEK”, which, according to the investigation, was managed by Serhiy Kurchenko, under the guise of financial corporation. Some eight schemes for the state money embezzlement in fuel and energy as well as in bank spheres, are described in the court decision. These is not a single verdict to any of the schemes masterminds. Detailed analysis of sentences to “Kurchenko’s group” people was done by Nashi Groshi.
The only major difference between this and other court decisions is the revealing of the role of the investment company Investment Capital Ukraine (ICU) as a broker in the purchase of those confiscated bonds back in 2013. At that time, the company was partially owned and managed by the former Head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Valeriya Hontarieva.
The court decision does not include any justification of illegal origin of the confiscated funds. Also, there is no indication of any investigation by PGO into actions of the public officials authorizing emission of the bonds and compliance with anti-money laundering requirements by the financial service providers assisting with the purchase of the bonds such as ICU and Oshchadbank that later deposited those bonds. Text of the analysis.
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