State-financed Deposit Guarantee Fund head Kostyantyn Vorushylyn told the Kyiv Post on June 21 that he wants a public registry of those responsible for unpaid loans. (Anastasia Vlasova)
As he spoke with the Kyiv Post on June 20 at the Deposit Guarantee Fund, Kostyantyn Vorushylyn’s voice was constantly interrupted by angry protesters yelling from the outside entrance of the building.They were people whose loans have not been paid out by Bank Mikhailovsky, which was declared insolvent on March 23.
The bank’s owner, Viktor Polishchuk, is accused by the National Bank of Ukraine of having stolen millions of dollars from Ukrainians using his shell company, Ekosipan. Polischuk is the owner of a luxurious shopping mall called Gulliver in downtown Kyiv as well as Eldorado, an electronics retail chain.