In Ukraine, the property of the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank, Rozhkova, began to be sold for debts

In Ukraine, the property of the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank, Rozhkova, began to be sold for debts

Bailiffs have begun selling the property of the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank, Kateryna Rozhkova, due to debts to the Deposit Guarantee Fund. On December 30, 2024, her parking spot in Kyiv at 10 Volynska Street was sold for UAH 502,3 thousand.

Rozhkova herself reported this on January 6, 2025, in the report to the NACP (National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption). The specified information indicates that the sale took place as part of the enforcement proceedings 72392283. In total, 16 court cases and 5 enforcement proceedings are registered under Kateryna Rozhkova in the state registers, and number 72392283 is assigned to the case of the Deposit Guarantee Fund against the former executives of Platinum Bank, which is still under liquidation. Specialists of the DGF are still selling off the assets of this financial institution and conducting various recoveries in favor of the affected depositors with deposits over UAH 200 thousand (which have already been reimbursed to the victims) and other creditors.

The National Bank decided to withdraw the license of Platinum Bank in February 2017, and the DGF almost immediately put it into liquidation. The Deposit Guarantee Fund sent the lawsuit against the former management of Platinum Bank to court only in June 2020. Among the defendants were top managers: former members of the bank’s supervisory board, including Hryhoriy Hurtovyi, as well as the chairman of the board, Kostyantyn Smolsky, and the acting chairman of the board, Kateryna Rozhkova, who at that time was already working in the National Bank. In total, the officials filed lawsuits against 11 persons associated with the bank for a total amount of UAH 1.48 billion.

The legal battle lasted almost four years — until March 2024, when, as OBOZ wrote, Ms. Rozhkova, along with 10 former colleagues, lost the case. The Cassation Commercial Court as part of the Supreme Court recognized the Fund’s claims as lawful.

However, Kateryna later also continued to resist, trying to contest the actions of the State Executive Service (Department of State Service of the Ministry of Justice) regarding the enforcement of her property through procedural issues. But on November 21, 2024, in the Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv, she still lost the case under the proceeding 2-а/760/1150/24.

And it has now become known that already within a month, the sale of Kateryna Rozhkova’s first property took place as part of the respective proceeding. She did not officially declare other reports regarding sales.

Throughout 2024, Rozhkova made only one "notification of significant changes in financial status." This happened on July 10 and concerned the payment for education in Ukraine amounting to UAH 348 thousand and also corrected her declaration for 2023.

Even after the corrections in the declaration for 2023, there were no data on the property now sold for UAH 502.3 thousand, that is, the mentioned parking space at 10 Volynska Street. Although the state register contains information that Kateryna owns a parking space and an apartment at this address.

In the corrected version of the 2023 declaration, Kateryna Rozhkova’s property includes the following real estate objects:

• 50% of an apartment in Kyiv with a total area of 99.5 sq.m, acquired in November 2009, with the value at that date indicated as UAH 220.8 thousand;
• a garage of 19.8 sq.m in Kyiv from December 2008 for UAH 24.6 thousand;
• a land plot in the village of Markhalivka (Kyiv region) of 1505 sq.m from May 2007 for UAH 114.8 thousand;
• a land plot in the village of Kozhukhivka (Kyiv region) of 1193 sq.m from March 2007 without specifying the value;
• a garden (dacha) house in the village of Kozhukhivka (Kyiv region) of 87.7 sq.m from December 2014 without specifying the value.

The banker also reported one unfinished house in the village of Markhalivka (Kyiv region) with a total area of 299.1 sq.m. She also listed numerous jewelry items (watches) and the use of a foreign car Honda CR-V 2008 release.

Lawyers explained that bailiffs will try to sell all the property of Rozhkova and other defendants in accordance with the debt of each. Although it is not yet known exactly how the payment of UAH 1.48 billion is distributed among the 11 people who lost the court case to the Deposit Guarantee Fund.

"Usually, bailiffs try to recover all assets to the debt amount to cover the debt of the person/people who lost the lawsuit. A small list of personal property is left to the debtor. Even if it concerns partial ownership, for example, 50% of an apartment – this share is allocated, and the rest remains with other owners. Furthermore, the creditor can file a fraudulent lawsuit – aimed at attempts to evade obligations. That is, if a person, before the final court decision, began to gift, bequeath, or sell their property, all these actions can be declared illegal through the court and annulled to return the property to the debtor and sell it under the enforcement proceedings," explained the lawyer to OBOZ.UA.

He also clarified that the executive service has the right to contact the employer — in this case, the National Bank — with a demand to regularly (monthly) recover 20% of the current salary/remuneration of the debtor.

"It does not matter how the person receives the salary — to a bank card or in cash. The employer (NBU) after the appropriate appeal of the bailiff must withhold 20% of the amount and transfer it in the repayment of the debt. It’s the same procedure as with alimony withholding," added the lawyer.