During the pre-trial investigation it was established that the detainees, who are former employees of the bank, acquired a number of enterprises with signs of fictitiousness. Then, in the established order, they were issued POS-terminals for making payments using payment cards.

The capital's prosecutor's office said that the attackers carried out fictitious transactions for the sale of various goods, and after crediting the funds, they took them through the "Key to account" card at ATMs. Transactions were made with the alleged return of goods, but the money in the accounts was no longer and the bank was forced to return funds to the appropriate bank card at their own expense. In total, this was caused damages amounting to 200 thousand hryvnia.

The police have already conducted 14 searches in homes and vehicles of intruders and seized seven POS terminals, 18 cash return checks, 97 bank cards, 28 seals, 18 SIM cards, two computers, five laptops, three tablets and about 240 thousand UAH of cash.

At present, the detainees are preparing a report on suspicion under the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Fraud on a particularly large scale, and the question of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, PrivatBank was privatized in late 2016. It is the largest bank in the country. Its assets at the end of the first quarter of 2017 amounted to 237.25 billion hryvnia.