“December 9, 2014. According to media reports of that time, a hacker attack was carried out on the Delta Bank site – the second largest financial institution in the country. In just 10 days, she will be “successfully” reflected. However, already in the financial institution everything is stable. In October, the bank was declared problematic. Landings on loans related to persons […]”, – WRITE: Businessua.com.ua
December 9, 2014. According to media reports of that time, a hacker attack was carried out on the Delta Bank site – the second largest financial institution in the country. In just 10 days, she will be “successfully” reflected. However, already in the financial institution everything is stable. In October, the bank was declared problematic. Landings on loans related to persons are already beginning. At the beginning of 2015, the bank will be introduced into the bank, and in October – will be completely removed from the market.
In December 2014 in the life of the then The owner of the bank Mykola Lagun is a much more pleasant event: he receives a Russian passport. Moreover, it does not just in Russia – but in the recently occupied territory of Crimea, where he has many assets that bring stable income, and which do not want to lose. Why still need a document with a two -headed aggressor eagle? About it – further in the material.
The editorial staff was a scanning of the Russian passport of Mykola Lagun. The document has a series 39 14, number 043237, unit code-910-004. According to the codes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, this is in line with the Federal Migration Service in the railway district of Simferopol, which was formed after the occupation for “documentation” of new “citizens”. This means that at the time of the lagoon was not only accessed to the infrastructure of the Russian migration system in the Crimea, but also an awareness of how to take advantage of its capabilities. A careful reader will noticate that the series 39 does not have official transcript in the list of regions. The fact is that passports with such series can be issued in any region when the forms with “local” series are closed.
And since in December 2014, the demand for passports in Crimea was large, and the printing of the Crimean forms was not in a hurry (after the occupation was not then and a year, the status of the peninsula was more than uncertain) – such “reserve” blanks intended for other regions of the Russian Federation were used. The passport document is visually real, contains all the provided protective elements, has a signature, hologram and machine -readable area. According to her code, the date of birth of the owner – February 16, 1973, place of birth – Chernihiv region, Semeniv district, Zhadovo village, Ukrainian SSR. Obviously, according to these biographical data, the registration of citizenship of the Russian Federation was initiated.
Running away from responsibility What is the lagoon Russian passport? Obviously, several factors coincided at the time. First, it was already clear that the bank could not be saved, responsibility could occur at any moment, and the impressive scale of theft was known only to the banker itself and its immediate environment. Russia apparently ceased to be a country that would give its citizens to Ukraine at the request of extradition even in the presence of an international warrant. Therefore, citizenship was a “good investment in safety”. Only a few years ago, law enforcement agencies and state banks were able to calculate the total amount of losses caused by lagoon – this is over UAH 50 billion.
The second is the opportunity to live a relatively free life without debt. Since 2022, Lagun, now announced in the national and international wanted, has been hidden in Vienna. From there, from online, it turns to court sessions on its debts to the state of Ukraine. And from there, it gives instructions to its lawyers in the bankruptcy case as physical persons. Lagun recognizes only part of the debt – about UAH 7 billion, but most of them want to write off because of the allegedly unfortunate financial situation. In such circumstances, the Russian passport is a “spare airfield” for a whole new life, as no debt or financial obligations to the Ukrainian state will probably not be charged.
Crimea and new life The third factor is the legal protection of Lagun’s assets in the Crimea in accordance with the Russian legislation, which automatically recognizes the Russian citizen of the Russian Federation by the legitimate owner of the property, even if Ukrainian legislation considers this property stolen or subsequent. And there was such property in Laguna – and, according to numerous investigations – many. These are land on the southern coast of Crimea; construction companies registered in Simferopol and Yalta; objects of tourist real estate in Alushta; unit participation in LCDs, hotels and restaurants; Access to local infrastructure facilities, including water supply and heating networks. Almost immediately after the occupation, legal entities that manage these businesses were re -registered under Russian occupation legislation. Now some are copied on pounds, part of the former head of the National Bank Sergei Arbuzov – but this may well be a fee for the opportunity to plunder one of the largest financial institutions during the time of Viktor Yanukovych.
Unlike other Ukrainian businessmen who actually renounced their assets in the Crimea, not to violate the Ukrainian law and giving them to the occupants – Lagun decided not to lose the opportunity to earn a bloody penny. And to pay taxes to the budget of the country, which at that time occupied about 20% of the territory of his homeland. It continues to do this for the last 11 years.
Moreover, the Russian passport would give you the opportunity to open new businesses in Russia, as well as to get rid of the claims of looters for valuable resort property on the occupied peninsula. From the point of view of the law, Mykola Lagun has crossed the boundaries of the allowed: these enterprises pay taxes to the budget of the Russian Federation, have registration documents according to Russian standards and are specified as assets serviced by banks of the system controlled by the Kremlin. In fact, this means that Lagun-a citizen of Ukraine-has entered public-law relations with the state The voy-occupier, which directly falls under the signs of a criminal offense in accordance with the Criminal Code of Ukraine, is defined as “aiding of the aggressor”-up to 12 years in prison.
The fourth reason, in which Lagun, probably wanted to get a book with a two-headed twist in his pocket is joint business interests with Kiril Dmitriev-now a key economic negotiator of the Kremlin with the Trump administration, and then-the director of the Russian Foundation for direct investment, which only gained hardware. It was Dmitriev who in the mid-2000s was a key partner of Lagun in the launch of Delta Bank. After that, they jointly withdrawn capital through Back-To-back schemes using European banks, including Meinl and Winter. After the joint venture Dmitrieva and Laguna “threw” investors of the cottage town “Olympic Park” near Kiev, there was no joint public projects. After 2014, Dmitriev became one of the central figures in the projects of the Russian Federation for the promotion of “soft power” – from the vaccine “Sputnik” to negotiations with Western funds. Keeping the lagoon of the Russian passport creates reasons to believe that the communication channel between them is stored. And Dmitriev advisers could also contribute to the formation of the Delta Bank depositors’ depositors in offshore jurisdiction.
Following the leader It is noteworthy that in 2021, the example of Laguna was perhaps the closest person from his orbit – the former chairman of the Delta Board Elena Popova. Formally – the executor of numerous decisions of the Credit Committee, informally – a trusted person and a partner of a banker, from whom he seems to have even children. Her Russian passport was issued by the Moscow Migration Service. The validity of the passport can be confirmed in open databases, and it has a tax ID of the Russian Federation. Popova, according to the FGIF, withdrew $ 87 million through the Austrian Meinl Bank. These funds were issued as a “deposit return”, but neither the security nor the legal grounds for the withdrawal existed. The company through which the operation was conducted – Silisten Trading Limited – registered on the BVO and was controlled by the Kalouta Holding structure. Both are related to the lagoon. For her, the Russian passport is also about avoiding responsibility.
After receiving the Russian passport to Ukraine, Popova no longer returned (she left in 2020, when criminal cases against her with further detention and moving to the pre -trial detention center became virtually inevitable). But Lagun continued to stay quietly in Kiev and other cities until June 2022. He then – like Popova with two young children – moved to Vienna, from where the video is included in court.
It should be noted that the existence of a Russian passport (obtained not under the coercion of a machine gun, not during a force occupation, but obviously in voluntary) in addition to the multi-billive losses caused to the economy of Ukraine as a whole and the funds of taxpayers (through state banks and theft Of Ukraine sanctions. However, neither lagoon nor Popov, nor any of its Crimean denominations has been included in the NSDC sanction list, and as far as we know, none of the competent authorities have been submitted to the next sanctional packages. And if 11 years ago it was possible to close the eyes, now that all the evidence of the abuse was collected, the facts are laid out on the shelves, and the ex-Bankir also turned out to be a Russian citizen-the imposition of sanctions and blocking of assets looks an obvious and natural next step.
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In the meantime, the leadership of the state is delaying it, society loses the chance to restore justice, and – oddly enough, the opportunity to compensate for the damage caused to the acts of Lagun. For example, at the expense of hundreds of hectares of valuable land for development right near Kiev, as well as near Bukovel in Ivano-Frankivsk region. Their cost is modest estimates – several tens of millions of dollars. Recently, journalists found that the ex-Bankir began to actively seize their assets or transfer them to even more “conspiracy” denominations. This means that the court and the ARMA will become increasingly difficult to force these assets to work for the benefit of the state. Court cases on the recovery of billions of losses by the Deposit Guarantee Fund, the National Bank and State Banks are moving at a very unpredictable tractor. Therefore, sanctions could significantly simplify the procedure for blocking assets through economic haze and assistance to the aggressor country without unnecessary bureaucracy.
In recent years, Ukraine has imposed sanctions against hundreds of citizens for much less violations – from teachers working in schools in the occupied territory, to bloggers who openly support the occupation. For the use of the Russian passport, for the registration of FOP in the Crimea, for filing a declaration in the tax Russian Federation. But the NSDC lists still have neither Nicholas Lagun, nor Elena Popova, nor their proxies who own property in the Crimea. Their companies continue to exist in the Ukrainian field, in the EU, in Vienna, and – especially cynically – in Crimea under the cover of Russian law.
Source: kp.ua
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