NABU head receives statement signed by 35 MPs alleging crimes by NBU leadership

Depositors, who lost their deposits in Ukrainian banks, have handed over a statement alleging crimes by senior officials of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to Director of National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk.

The document was handed to Sytnyk by one of the 35 signatory parliamentarians, Ihor Lutsenko (Batkivschyna faction).

"We are now going to apply on the crime, hand it personally into Mr. Sytnyk’s hands together with a booklet about head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Valeria Gontareva. Everyone perfectly realized about the fall of Delta Bank and Mykhailivsky Bank. Gontareva herself was very well aware of it," Lutsenko said, speaking at a rally organized by the cheated depositors of banks outside the walls of NABU on Tuesday.

According to him, many parliamentarians have been trying to remove Gontareva since 2015, but the strong resistance on the part of the authorities and the supervisory authorities prevented this process, which was extremely hard to overcome. Now, both the deputies and the public have mutual understanding on the issue of the need for the immediate resignation of the current NBU head.

Sytnyk, who accepted the document for his part, said, that the deceived investors are not the direct competence of NABU, but it is his office that is investigating the refinancing withdrawal from the liquidated banks.

"We see that almost all the banks, investors of which have come today, were receiving refinancing. And the money went through Latvian or Austrian banks. This is public money and, perhaps, NBU officials are involved in it," NABU director said and promised to study the document.

One of the deputies, who signed the statement handed, was Serhiy Taruta. Handing the statement to Sytnyk is a continuation of the resignation campaign on Gontareva as NBU head initiated by a parliamentarian.

Taruta is the author of the brochure "The threat of economic security of Ukraine", which refers to the negative impact on the economic situation in the country by Gontareva’s actions during her tenure as the NBU head, as well as her possible involvement in corruption schemes. Taruta also said about the need to create a temporary parliamentary investigating commission investigating Gontareva’s activities during her tenure as the head of the NBU.