Ukraine's
Rivne city court has issued a ruling to seize UAH 8.5 billion kept in an
individual's bank accounts at Ukrainian-based Sberbank of Russia JSC, according
to news web portal zahid.net.
The ruling was
issued on January 26 in the framework of considering a lawsuit filed by
businessman Yevhen Pukhalsky, who demands that the bank repay EUR 324 million
in deposited funds and interest, the portal said.
The plaintiff
concluded an agreement on granting the right to use the funds of the deposit to
four charitable funds. The charity organizations may be entitled to almost UAH
8.5 billion if the businessman wins the case, the report said. The lawsuit was
first admitted by Kyiv's Pechersk District Court, but later it was transferred
for the Rivne court.
The
businessman refused to explain the origin of those funds in dispute, saying he
had acted in the interests of an offshore company, which can be proved by
relevant documents. The
company's name was not disclosed either.
Earlier it was
reported that in June 2014, 33-year-old businessman Pukhalsky deposited EUR 300
million in Sberbank of Russia's Luhansk branch. The deposit amount is said to
have increased by EUR 24 million in interest, totaling over UAH 8 billion as
per the exchange rate of the National Bank of Ukraine. Sberbank of Russia
refused to repay the mentioned sum to the customer, and he filed a lawsuit.
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