⅔ Assets Withdrawn From Bank Owned By Businessman Close To The Cockroach

One of Cockroach's wallets fell under European sanctions.

Absolutbank ranks 20th among Belarusian banks in terms of assets - it is small relative to the market as a whole, Euroradio reports.

It was lucky with clients though: among the account holders of Absolutbank, Ukrainian deputies Taras Kozak and Viktor Medvedchuk were found at one time. The latter is often called Putin's godfather, and today he is accused of treason.

Ukrainian politicians became clients of the bank when Medvedchuk began working with Belarusian businessman Mikalai Varabey, the owner of Absolutbank, in the press they call him the regime's purse. After falling under European sanctions, Varabey assigned the bank to top managers of his other companies. However, has the businessman ceased to formally control it?

In 2019 and 2020, Medvedchuk and Kozak increased the size of their "stash" in a Belarusian bank. So, at the end of 2020, Medvedchuk and his wife kept about 9.5 million euros in Absolutbank, and Kozak - about 8.8 million euros and another 8.2 million dollars. How much of their money was in the bank in the first half of 2021 - there is no information. But it is known that from January 1 to April 1, 2021, customer funds in Absolutbank grew by another 70 million rubles.

But over the next six months, clients "took" ⅔ of their funds from Absolutbank. As of October 1, 2021, customer funds amounted to only 73.3 million rubles. Compared to April 1, they decreased by 120 (!) million rubles.

If since the end of 2020 Medvedchuk and Kozak have not increased their savings in a Belarusian bank by a single kapeyka, today it is more than 72 million rubles. In this case, it turns out that Absolutbank has only two clients, and both are Ukrainian deputies. It is more likely that they did not withdraw all of their funds from the bank, but most of them. And it is due to this that such noticeable changes are observed in the balance sheet.

The bank itself cannot disclose customer data, so it is impossible to confirm this version today. However, in 2022, the declaration of deputies for the current year will be published. The movement of their money, including in Belarus, should be displayed there.

Are they covering their tracks with money?

In early 2021, Ukraine imposed sanctions against Kozak and Medvedchuk. The deputies are accused of aiding Russian militants in Donbas, and recently Medvedchuk was charged with high treason for trading in Donbas coal. Their accounts in Ukrainian banks are blocked. The attractiveness of Belarus was also due to the fact that local banks are not obliged to comply with the decisions of the Ukrainian authorities to freeze funds.

Medvedchuk is under house arrest today. His comrade-in-arms Kozak is officially on the wanted list, but not so long ago he entered in his declaration the data on transactions with real estate and the sale of currency ... in Belarus. Initially, it was stated that in our country he was "undergoing treatment." Whether this is so - and whether Kozak is really visiting Belarus now - is not known for certain.