Presidential Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Rostislav Shurma can be a "secret patron" of a small Bank "Alliance", which has recently been replaced by corruption scandals.
This is reported by the editors of the NENKA INFO
Thanks to close relations with Pavel Shcherban, the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Bank - Shurma can reflect the "attacks" of the NBU on the Alliance, as well as provide protection for the bank before law enforcement agencies, journalists .
The Alliance Bank became widely known thanks to a scandal with a bribe, which on behalf of the Bank had to give detectives and prosecutors, Sapu, a Miller Law Advisor Alexei Nosov in the case of Ukrenergo's losses. Despite the fact that formally the chief shareholder is Alexander Sosis, the former chairman of the board of the insurance company ASKA Rinat Akhmetov, in fact everything is decided by the chairman of the Supervisory Board, 40-year-old Pavel Pavlovich Shcherban.
According to open sources , Shcherban has been working in the banking sector for about 18 years. He worked at Prominvestbank, Vladimir Bank, Yuzhbank, the friend of Viktor Yanukovych, Jr. Ruslan Tsiplakova. He also worked with Apex and Standard scheme banks, as well as Taskombank. Since mid -2018, Shcherban has been the deputy chairman and acting chairman. Chairman of the Board, and since August 2021 - heads the Supervisory Board of the Alliance Bank. In July 2023, the Antimonopoly Committee allowed him to purchase more than 25% of the institution.
Journalists claim that Shcherban is a godfather of Rostislav Shurma, whom they probably met about ten years ago when structuring a number of scheme transactions. This is a failure to fulfill the conditions for guarantees, chronic ignoring the standards of the National Bank, especially in terms of risk of one client, corruption scandals and penalties for breach of financial monitoring rules - all these factors have long had to be summoned to the bank by a temporary administration.
The authors point out that there are business interests and other Shcherban companies. "First, it is about the gas company" Viva Exploreshn ", which is formally owned by the geologist Sergei Dumenko through the Cyprus firm IF Exploration Company Limited . Condensate in Staromizun Square in the Ivano-Frankivsk region for the validity of 2033, ”the material reads.
The second interesting asset at the disposal of Shcherban, which may be the deputy head of the Presidential Office is a recently purchased elevator in the city of Khorol in Poltava region (Alliance Elevator LLC). "Despite the relatively small size and need for reconstruction, Shcherban and Shurma consider this business as a start for greater integration into the agricultural sector, since the demand for the storage of grain and other agricultural products is only growing every year," journalists said.
Also a whole cluster of companies where Shcherban invested with IT business.
"Shcherban is obviously going to create a multidisciplinary IT team that will be able to serve different areas. Mostly firms specialize in banking products, but provide services and trade networks," the text said. The interest in the digitalization of many processes in the economy is known, the authors add. But his constant desire to "sit" Viceremier from the digital transformation of Mikhail Fedorov is also known. "And so the Shcherban group is a good start for creating your own uniform army," the text says.
"All this versatility in business interests does not lies in the functionality of the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Bank, which is stormed for the first month. So here or" Alliance "for Shcherban is not a priority (which does not look like true), or investments in all these colorful businesses. He receives a passive income proportionate to its share), which may not even be a shcherban himself, ”the media sums up.
