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Kyiv law enforcers have detained a head of one of the departments of Standard Bank, complicit in an illegal withdrawal of Hr 900 million from depositors’ accounts, according to the press service of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine.

“The SBU along with the fiscal service revealed that the official in 2013-2015 withdrew more than Hr 900 million of bank’s depositors upon instructions of at top management and the bank’s owner. The transaction was carried out through lending to fictitious commercial structures under their control,” reads the statement.

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