For almost three years, the bank was limited to 245 gas stations, which were placed on the bank’s balance sheet before its nationalization in 2016 and were immediately leased and then subleased.
The Central Economic Court of Appeal upheld the complaint PrivatBank on the removal of the return order of 245 gas stations, owned by group companies under lease terms Private Igor Kolomoisky. This is reported by the press service PrivatBank.
It is mentioned that it is almost three years PrivatBank is limited to 245 gas stations, which were placed on the bank’s balance sheet before its nationalization in 2016 and were immediately leased and then subleased. Tenants already owe the state bank more than 10 billion hryvnias.
According to the lawyer PrivatBank, the story stretches back to 2016, when before the nationalization the bank put 248 gas stations on its balance sheet by foreclosing the mortgaged items in compliance with the requirements of the NBU. After receiving ownership of the gas station, the bank, under the leadership of the previous management, immediately transferred them to financial leasing to companies from the orbit of the group. Private, which concluded 22 lease agreements with 15 lessees. And they in turn subleased gas stations to other companies of the same group.
As mentioned in PrivatBank, the payment of lease payments took place according to a typical method for Igor Kolomoisky’s group: in the first years only the interest was paid, then the principal amount was added. At the same time, the valuation when the gas station is transferred to the bank balance is greatly overestimated. Finally, since 2018, debtors have reduced lease payments and then stopped them altogether.
Failure to comply with the terms of the financial lease agreement was enforced PrivatBank in 2019-2020, begin the process of terminating contracts and returning gas stations under your control.
We remind you that the former head of the Kyiv branch received suspicion Privatbankpart of an organized group created by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to illegally seize UAH 5.8 billion.
It was also reported that Kolomoisky became aware of a new suspicion.
Source: korrespondent
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