The Prosecutor General’s Office has referred a case to court against a bank official suspected of withdrawing $20 million on the first day of a full-scale war.

Office of the Prosecutor General handed over to court the case of a commercial bank official who is accused of involvement in the illegal withdrawal of 20 million US dollars from the account of the company “Ukrtatnafta” on the first day of the full-scale invasion of Russia.

The indictment was directed against the deputy head of the department of one of the banks. She is accused of concealing a crime that resulted in the illegal withdrawal of $20 million from the accounts of a major oil refining company that is now state-owned.

The investigation established that on the day of the start of the full-scale aggression, an organized group of people led by a member of the company’s supervisory board, using a forged contract for the supply of crude oil and fictitious payment documents, transferred the specified amount to the account of a foreign company controlled by the organizer.

A bank official, acting in collusion with the group, entered false information into a copy of the forged contract, indicating that the document had arrived at the bank earlier. In addition, she destroyed the original copies of the contract and payment documents, which made it possible to hide the traces of the illegal transaction. Other persons involved in the case had already been charged with suspicion. They are currently hiding abroad and are wanted internationally.