Based on the materials of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine and the procedural guidance of the prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office, the actual owner of a large financial and industrial group was served a notice of suspicion of committing crimes under Art. 200, 191 and 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

The pre-trial investigation established that in the period from 2013 to 2014 the suspect created an organized group consisting of employees of the bank in which he was a founder and shareholder.

In order to seize the bank's funds the group members artificially created the appearance of depositing money on behalf of Kolomoiskyi to the bank's cash desk in the amount of over UAH 5.8 billion.

Later they forged documents on cash collection to one of the bank's branches. In fact the bank did not receive any funds at all.

Analysts of the ESBU found that the non-cash funds which were essentially the bank's assets were transferred to another account of Kolomoiskyi and accounts of legal entities controlled by him.

In this way the organized group seized the bank's assets worth over UAH 5.8 billion.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing. Procedural supervision is carried out by prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office. Operational support is provided by the Security Service of Ukraine.

Earlier, detectives of the Economic Security Bureau jointly with the SSU served Ihor Kolomoiskyi a notice of suspicion of committing crimes stipulated by Art. 190 and 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.