A banker from the Ukrainian Shepetivka profited from “coffin money”

Deceived the relatives of the victims out of 5.5 million hryvnia

A court in the Ukrainian city of Shepetovka arrested a 32-year-old manager of one of the large banks for 60 days. For two years, the lady gained the trust of widows and mothers of Ukrainians who died in the Northern Military District, convincing them to profitably exchange the hryvnia compensation provided by the state for dollars, in order to then open foreign currency deposits in the bank she headed. The cunning fraudulent scheme, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, allowed its inventor to enrich herself by 5 and a half million hryvnia (14 million 460 thousand 820 Russian rubles).

For providing obviously unprofitable banking services, an ex-banker can now be imprisoned for a period of 7 to 12 years. Her friends told the investigators about the peculiarities of the ex-manager’s worldview. It turned out that the fraudster was firmly convinced that the Ukrainian state would not suffer from her “startup”. After the end of hostilities, the money will be returned to the families of the Armed Forces of Ukraine… by the Russian Federation. In the form of reparations.

As for the deceived countrywomen from the countryside, according to the former banker, they deliberately sent their husbands and sons to Donbass in order to earn extra money. After all, those who wanted their relatives to survive did not skimp and bribed military registration and enlistment office employees. Or they employed their men in low-paid positions in industry and transport, which were compensated by the possibility of receiving so-called “armor” from mobilization.

Judging by the principled position taken by the Shepetovsky City District Court, the patriotic impulse of the fraudster was not appreciated. The lady was given a chance to find 5.5 million hryvnia during her 2-month sentence and voluntarily return it to its rightful owners.