In the course of stabilization measures in liberated Kherson, the SSU exposed another ‘high-ranking’ enemy accomplice.

The offender headed an office of the russian-controlled ‘international settlements bank’, which opened its ‘branches’ in the occupied areas of southern Ukraine.

It was through this russian ‘financial institution’ that the governor of the captured part of Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo tried to set up over 200 banking ‘offices’ of the aggressor state in the area.

In this way, ruscists planned to enforce the ‘ruble zone’ and provide additional revenues to the russian budget.

Most of this money was to be used for the war against Ukraine.

To implement the project, the enemy planned to use the ‘experience’ of creating an extensive network of the ‘settlements bank’ in the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The investigation established that during Kherson’s occupation such a task had been entrusted to a former employee of a local bank.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the man supported the invaders and voluntarily agreed to head one of the branches of the russian financial institution.

He arranged his ‘workplace’ in the building of a captured Ukrainian state bank.

While in the ‘position’, the enemy accomplice forced local entrepreneurs to switch to commercial settlements in russian rubles and deduct part of the profits in favor of the occupation administration.

After Kherson’s liberation, the criminal tried to ‘lie low’ in one of the city hospitals.

However, the SSU located and detained him.

SSU investigators notified the detainee of suspicion under Article 111-2.1 of the CCU.

Court chose custody without bail as a measure of restraint.

The SSU Office in Kherson Region carried out the operation with the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.