Court allows NABU access to bank data in fortifications case

In a case of possible embezzlement during the construction of fortifications, involving former officials of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine gained access to bank documents.

This is reported by Suspilne.

As it became known from the decisions in the Unified Register of Court Decisions, the High Anti-Corruption Court considered the requests of law enforcement officers and partially granted them. These are documents containing banking secrecy – accounts, checks, statements and other financial data.

Detectives filed seven motions over two days in February, seeking temporary access to records related to the companies involved in the case, spanning the period from February 2024 to the end of October 2025.

“Analysis of information about the funds available in such accounts and the time of their transfer will enable the pre-trial investigation body to verify the sources of origin of the identified funds, the facts of possible legalization of funds obtained through criminal means, as well as the persons who used such enterprises,” the court ruling states.

Investigators also plan to “establish the specific amount of assets that exceed the legal income of the defendants” and verify the involvement of individual individuals in possible crimes.

The court allowed law enforcement officers to obtain copies of documents submitted to open accounts, data on the movement of funds with payment details, as well as information on credit and deposit agreements, crediting and debiting of funds, and agreements on purchases for cash withdrawn from accounts.

Bank representatives were not invited to the meeting. According to detectives, this was done because of the risk that documents could be altered or destroyed.

Let us recall that in 2024, the Poltava Regional Military Administration received almost 400 million hryvnias for the construction of fortifications in the Donetsk region . However, instead of reliable protection for the military, only conditional structures appeared there – sticks, several pits and low-quality materials. Experts call this more of an imitation than a real fortification, unable to withstand modern weapons.

As reported, during his year in office, the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Philip Pronin, spent more than 70 days on foreign business trips . He visited France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Tanzania, Mexico and other countries. Often his trips coincided with important events in Ukraine – meetings of the parliamentary Temporary Investigative Commission or corruption scandals involving his subordinates.

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