Russian Central Bank head notified of suspicion of facilitating financing of war against Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) have collected evidence that shows that the Central Bank of the aggressor country of the russian federation has contributed to the preparation of an aggressive war against Ukraine and continues to support it.

This is stated in the notification of the SSU.

According to the case materials and the conclusions of independent research, the head of this financial institution, Elvira Nabiullina, was informed in advance about the plans of the russian dictator vladimir putin for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and made decisions of the Central Bank that ensured military aggression.

For this, according to the investigation, Nabiullina changed the strategy of the Central Bank in order to support the occupation, avoid sanctions applied to the russian federation for invading Ukraine, and also to facilitate the financing of the occupation groups of the aggressor country.

The investigation materials also show that funds held in the russian Central Bank accounts opened in foreign jurisdictions are in fact one of the instruments of war.

We are talking about almost USD 300 billion, which, thanks to Ukraine's international partners, are blocked in the accounts of the Central Bank of the russian federation all over the world.

On the basis of the evidence base collected by the SSU and the PGO, this amount may in the future be subject to confiscation, as the funds of a legal entity, to which criminal-legal measures will be applied, as provided for by legislation.

Currently, within the relevant criminal proceedings, a new suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 437 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (planning, preparation, initiation and waging of an aggressive war) was received by the head of the Central Bank of the russian federation, Elvira Nabiullina.

The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the SSU notified two russian occupiers who were abusing prisoners in the Kharkiv Region of suspicion in absentia.