REUTERS
The access to banking privacy information was provided to the National Police, the State Fiscal Service, the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the SBU Security Service, the Prosecutor General's Office, and the State Bureau of Investigation.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) says it disclosed banking secrecy information in 36 cases in January-March 2020 (Q1), having provided law enforcement authorities with access to property and documents as part of investigations into criminal offenses in the banking sector.
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In particular, the National Bank provided access to property and documents at the request of the National Police and the State Fiscal Service in nine cases each over the period under review, the NBU said on its website on April 21.
The central bank also authorized the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the SBU Security Service of Ukraine to access property and documents in four cases each, while the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) were granted access to banking secrecy in five cases each.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the National Bank in 2019 provided law enforcement officers with access to property and documents in 155 cases as part of probes into criminal offenses in the banking sector.