“The company owned by a citizen of the Russian Federation won the auction for the purchase of the assets of 2 liquidated Russian banks and one Ukrainian one.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
The company owned by a citizen of the Russian Federation won the auction for the purchase of the assets of 2 liquidated Russian banks and one bankrupt Ukrainian one. This is reported by Radio Svoboda. At the beginning of 2024, the Deposit Guarantee Fund auctioned the assets of two liquidated Russian banks and one bankrupt Ukrainian one for a total amount of 3 billion. “Schemy” established that the company that won the auction is directly owned by a citizen of the Russian Federation. She hid her Russian citizenship from the Ukrainian regulatory authorities, providing information only about the American one. For the most part – 90% – the lot consists of the assets of the Russian “Sberbank” (renamed “MR Bank”). Another small share of the assets in the pool is owned by the Russian “Prominvestbank” and the Ukrainian “Megabank”. Advertisement: The publication notes that this business of a Russian citizen is managed by a citizen of Belarus, whom the Security Service of Ukraine suspected of having connections with Russian intelligence. The company that won the tender “Spectrum Assets” operates in Ukraine as a financial institution, for which it has the appropriate license. Factoring and lending are among the services provided by the company. In the register of legal entities of Ukraine, the founder of the company is the American firm Spectrum UA Credit LLC, and its ultimate beneficial owner is the US citizen Marina Yevseeva, who also has a passport of the Russian Federation and often visits Russia. Advertisement: When asked by “Scheme” why the company hid information about the Russian citizenship of the owner of “Spectrum Assets”, the director of the company Nelya Voyevchyk from the Ukrainian regulatory authorities replied: “I don’t know anything about I don’t know that at all. I have a document that she lives permanently in America, there is a passport of a US citizen. Nothing else was provided by my beneficial owner.” “Spectrum Assets” has already participated in auctions and bought, for example, loan portfolios of bankrupt Ukrainian banks: “Nadra Bank” – for 24 million in March 2020 and “Fidobank” – for 52 million in September of the same year. The Deposit Guarantee Fund reported that if it turns out that the buyer of the assets hid his connection with the Russian Federation, he will have to pay a fine of 100% of the lot price and return the assets received at the auction.