6 detained people. 104 mln credits obtained under false pretences from SK Bank
Joint actions of officers from Regional Office of the Central Anticorruption Bureau in Katowice and the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw led to detentions of 6 persons associated with extortion of more than 104 million zł from SK Bank in Wołomin.
Among detained people are, inter alia, entrepreneurs and property experts who valued real estates as collateral for granted credits.
According to the findings of the investigators of the Regional Office of the CBA in Katowice and the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, the actual value of the real estates on which mortgages were put to serve as collateral for loans SK Bank, was significantly lower than the values given in the appraisal reports prepared by the property experts. In this way, the two companies received from the Cooperative Bank of Crafts and Agriculture in Wołomin (SK Bank) in the years 2011 - 2014 nine credits for a total amount of over 104 million zł. Companies after receiving the credits did not pay them off, and the money was brought out and misused according to the credit agreements.
The CBA agents searched the residences of the suspects and company offices - including a company operating nationwide. Detainees will be charged in the prosecutor's office.
Even earlier, in late September last year, officers of the Central Anticorruption Bureau detained 13 people involved in making scams and extorting 100 million zł from SK Bank in Wołomin and from the Cooperative Bank in Nadarzyn. Among those detained by the CBA were former president and former vice president of the Cooperative Bank in Nadarzyn. The detained 13 people got more than 100 different charges. Six people were temporarily detained.
Back in May 2016 the agents of the CBA, as part of the investigation, entered the headquarters of SK Bank in Wołomin (Cooperative Bank of Crafts and Agriculture in Wołomin), places of residence of 7 persons holding managerial functions of the bank in the period covered by the investigation, including the president and board members and to dozens of economic entities of the capital group operating in the real estate development sector. The CBA then carried out a series of procedural actions.
The investigation of - amongst others, large size mismanagement of board of the Cooperative Bank of Crafts and Agriculture in Wołomin (trade name SK Bank), crimes bookkeeping against the provisions and the administration of these books by giving unreliable data and the concealment of the true data as well as giving and false information to the National Bank of Poland (NBP) – was entrusted entirely to the Regional Office of the CBA in Katowice by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw.
The activities of the CBA and prosecutor's office are also associated with the notification of the chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission submitted after control of SK Bank in Wołomin. In this case, losses are estimated at approx. 2.6 billion zł. To this proceeding also comes an issue concerning the breach of trust and acting to the detriment of Cooperative Bank in Nadarzyn.
Investigators do not rule out further detentions.
Public Information Division of the CBA