A 54-year-old woman from Lviv was found guilty of misappropriation of property in particularly large amounts and the use of knowingly forged documents (part 5 of article 191, part 4 of article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) according to a public indictment by the Galician district prosecutor’s office of the city of Lviv.
She was sentenced to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property. Also deprived of the right to hold positions related to financial and banking activities for a period of 3 years.
During 2010-2013, the accused worked as a department head of one of the Lviv banks. As an official, the woman organized a scheme for misappropriation of depositors’ deposit funds.
To do this, the defendant entered unreliable information into the bank’s electronic system, in particular, forged statements about early termination of fixed-term deposit contracts by clients. After that, she instructed the cashier of the institution to give her the cash that was in depositors’ accounts.
During her work at the financial organization, she illegally appropriated more than UAH 1,300,000.
Currently, the accused is on an international wanted list.
A special pre-trial investigation was carried out by investigators of the Lviv District Police Department No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police in the Lviv region.
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