“After the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the former owner of the bankrupt Delta Bank Mykola Lagun, there was a need to block all assets belonging to him and related persons in the territory of Ukraine. Earlier it was known that Lagun rewrite land and securities into a number of nominal persons. However, it has recently found out that the key […]”, – WRITE: Businessua.com.ua
After the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the former owner of the bankrupt Delta Bank Mykola Lagun, there was a need to block all assets belonging to him and related persons in the territory of Ukraine. Earlier it was known that Lagun rewrite land and securities into a number of nominal persons. However, it has recently been revealed that the key managing assets of the exbanker is now a non -public Maxim Chernov, the owner of the organization agency in the organization training abroad.
In search of assets At the end of September, after many months of hesitation, the NSDC made a decision on the application of a number of restrictions on Mykola Lagun, who was initially founder, and later the actual author of bankruptcy of one of the largest banks of the early 2010s-Delta Bank. The institution was withdrawn from the market in 2015, when it became apparent that the lagoon and the board of the bank were withdrawn in massive funds – both citizens and refinancing the NBU and loans of other banks – to their own foreign accounts. Sanctions against Lagun have been imposed on cooperation with the Russian side, it appears in one list with Russian propagandists: it has long been known that the exbankir has a Russian passport, assets in the occupied Crimea and other interests in Russia. He is also the person involved in a number of criminal proceedings on fraudulent and bold withdrawal of money from Ukraine, for which he was made on the international wanted list. Nevertheless, the lagoon is in Vienna and from there he is joined in court.
Sanctions, in particular, envisage the full blocking of the assets of the person who defendant and the prohibition of withdrawal abroad, carrying out any financial transactions in favor of the lagoon and his representatives, as well as their transactions in favor of other counterparties. In addition, blocked assets can be directed to repayment of debts to the Deposit Guarantee Fund – a separate exception to sanction documents is provided for this purpose. In terms of “happy coincidence”, the Fund is right now with the lagoon and former members of the Delta Bank Board for UAH 23 billion of losses caused by their decisions to withdraw funds, which was why FGIF had to cover the bank’s obligations to the depositors at the expense of other taxpayers. By the way, on October 6, there is a regular court hearing. It is hoped that the Fund will be able to use new sanction instruments of influence in court.
From the previous media investigations, it is known that after the Delta of the Bank was removed from the Lagun market, he began to actively rewrite assets from herself and his sister Antonina Lagun on false persons – and continues to do so. The key business structure of the lagoon is the asset management company “Skya Capital Management” (now LLC KUA KAP), which has corporate rights at the company with hundreds of hectares of land and securities of production enterprises-was re-registered in Kherson, and the final owner of the Tajkim. According to YouControl, dozens of other companies of different profile companies have been issued on this “entrepreneur”, which indicates a “drainage of the asset”. This is a typical scheme: to avoid transparent closure of business and reconciliation of tax reporting, assets are withdrawn from the company, and its shell is reissued for a “virtual” citizen from Central Asia, who most likely once lost or gave someone his own passport. Similarly, the scheme can work on the contrary, when hundreds of “shells” are first registered on the illness, and then they are sold “turnkey”.
“Replace” owners Laguna Vadim Sergienko was entrusted with the head of the head and nominal owner “Ski Capital Management”. At the beginning of 2025, he already began to “release” some of the Lagun companies from the management of the AMC. The latter owned the rights at Chernihrad LLC, Borodyanvestment LLC, Bilgrad LLC, Cream-1 LLC, LLC “Consept Holding”. In 2021, LLC “Consept Holding” was transferred from Auriem Limited (Cyprus) from the AMC of Aurim Limited (Cyprus), and the beneficiary – Alexander Grigorovich. Companies belong to 99 land plots in the village. Bystrica in Ivano-Frankivsk with a total area of 172 hectares. Of these, 52 plots in 2015 were transferred to the company personally with a lagoon.
In February 2025, according to YouControl, the owner of Chernihrad LLC and Borodyaninvestmen LLC changed in the state registers. The first belongs to 63 hectares of land in the Chernihiv region, the second – more than 100 hectares in Borodyanka. Instead of AMC, these companies came under the management of Alexei Mykolenko and just created by Terrachab LLC. Alexei is the son of Petro Mykolenko, the former head of the State Treasury in the Kiev region, a long -standing head of the Regional Department of the Accounting Chamber in Kiev, region and adjacent regions. Another son of Petro Mykolenko – Sergey – has been headed by the Nikolaev customs from 2021. Other “pounds” of lagoon are also called the expature man from the Party of Regions Larisa Melnychuk – Gennady Lytvyn. All four – Sergienko, Mykolenko, Lytvyn, Shepherd – control working businesses with millions of turnover, which gives a lagoon a stable income and allows, for example, to pay several million dollars to lawyers for representing his interests in the London court against the group of Foxstrot companies.
In fact, all these persons are now potential objects of attention of law enforcement agencies and the SBU, because any further contacts and interaction with the lagoon, including financial calculations, will now be regarded as a violation of the sanction regime. Responsibility can be both administrative – for example, for violation of the procedure for conducting financial transactions or rules of economic activity – and criminal. If cooperation with the sub-person contains corruption risks, money laundering (which is just a lagoon case) or the financing of terrorism or army of the aggressor state through payment – Collaboration). The DFS and Babs have the right to check the enterprises for avoiding sanctions, and banks are obliged to block payments in favor of the sub -persons – if not done, the banks will be responsible until the license is revoked.
In addition, the NSDC may impose secondary sanctions on those who help sanctioned persons to circumvent restrictions. International mechanisms, American and British and British bodies responsible for sanction regime, impose restrictions on “partners” of sub -partners. This can lead to the loss of banking and closing access to foreign markets. The direct responsibility for the assistance in the bypass of the sanctions must be imposed after the adoption of the relevant bill, which is currently being considered in the Verkhovna Rada.
The quiet omut At the same time, it is likely that the issue of effective locking of assets can be solved much easier-through a “single window”, that is, a key and non-public figures who actually manage a financier’s business interest in Ukraine. It is about Maxim Chernov (also known to the last name of the Ultimate, which he changed several years ago for unknown reasons), the current founder of Kleverly Ukraine LLC (company on organization of study abroad) and the Laki Stream Tourist Agency. On the page in LinkedIn, Maxim also noted cooperation with E-Learning Quality Network, an American company that is engaged in the organization of educational processes.
Chernov demonstrated a direct connection with Lagun in 2021, when 16 land plots of Antonina Lagun in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region, in the village of Gora, with a total area of about 13 hectares were rewritten. Among them, in particular, sections 3220883200: 02: 001: 2189, 3220883200: 02: 001: 0415, 3220883200: 02: 001: 0414, 3220883200: 02: 001: 3220883200: 02: 001: 0413, 3220883200: 02: 001: 0420, 3220883200: 02: 001: 2187, 3220883200: 02: 001: 2185, 3220883200: 3220883200: 02: 001: 2188. Since nothing is happening there, it can be assumed that the areas are simply “overwhelmed” until the times when the lagoon and his family will be able to dispose of them again.
Approximate location of Chernov’s plots (actually lagoon)
Despite Maxim Chernov’s invisibility, Laguna is called a key figure in control over the asset controls, and in particular, reports the above mentioned above Sergienko, Mykolenko, Lytvyn, and shepherds. The influence of Chernov is associated with the fact that Lagun has long cooperated with his mother – Lyudmila Vasylivna, the former director of the Chernihiv Brewery, and later the CEO of Saninbev Ukraine, for which the Chernihiv region was Basic. It is known that Mykola Lagun is a native of Semenivka, Chernihiv region, and among his assets there are even utility companies from this region. Work on the lagoon markedly affected the abundance of Chernov: he owned three apartments in Kiev, garage and Land Rover Evoque.
One of the companies in which Chernov possesses 50% of the share may probably bind it to industrial assets through a number of offshore gaskets in dominic and Belize. It is about Laki Stream LLC, which he founded in half with lawyer Anna Antonenko from Kiev. Antonenko, in turn, is the founder of LLC “Legal Position”, 10% of which belongs to the firm “Warld Priettime Limited”, registered in Dominic. In addition to the law firm, more than 10 years ago, it was the founder of Tavriya LLC, Tavriya LLC, and PJSC “Donetskryba” (now re -registered under the laws of Russia, new “owners” are suing offshore “Ukrainian” shareholders to give their shares). Other offshore ones who have Donetskriba are Expotrade Systems Limited from Dominica and Fosbrook from Belize. The latter was also founded by LLC “Specialtechresurs LTD” together with LLC Aurora LLC, which was previously managed by Antonenko. The beneficiary was another Belize firm – Veon Development. Some of these companies are probably umbrella, some no longer operate. This network and control over part of the assets is Chernov, which operates on behalf of Lagun.
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The emergence in the list of potential assets of new positions for a possible future confiscation can significantly change the situation not only for the Deposit Guarantee Fund, but also for other fair Lagun creditors. Earlier, the media had already published experts that there may be enough evidence in criminal proceedings against Lagun to send requests for international cooperation, extradition, freezing through the relevant mechanisms of the London Court, as well as the further confiscation of a large amount of assets.
Source: kp.ua
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