The Ukrainian Agri Council (UAC) received a statement from its member of the daring fraud.

The farmer, who has suffered, reports that “Credit Agricole Bank” PJSC and “PrivatBank” JSC, which have accounts of the holding, received a letter from the Svyatoshinsky District Division of the State Bailiffs Service of the Main Territorial Department of Justice in Kyiv with a decision to impose an arrest on the company's funds. The reason for the arrest was allegedly the decision of the court to recover arrears from the participant of the UAC in favor of another company in the amount of about UAH 5.8 million.

Agrarian learned about it from the bank, despite the fact that there were no prerequisites for blocking funds, he said.

According to the register of court decisions, the register of debtors and other open search services, no case was considered against a participant of the UAC. And the state executor, who supposedly issued a resolution on the arrest of accounts, was in the hospital at the time when the letters were dated.

The executive service confirmed that the order received by the banks was a fake, and that the executive enforcement number does not exist. Accordingly, a participant of the UAC is not a party to enforcement proceedings.

The UAC prepared and sent on behalf of the affected farmer an appeal to the executive service asking him to give an official response that the letter received was a fake.

The investigation into this case is currently ongoing. “Credit Agricole Bank” PJSC and “PrivatBank” JSC carry out an internal audit, so there are currently no threats to blocking farm accounts and collecting funds in favor of another company.

In these circumstances, the UAC advises its members to keep in touch with the managers of the banks in which their accounts are opened, in order to minimize the potential risks of counterfeit proceedings.