Investigation Department of Soborne Police Unit of Dnipro PD of the Main Department of the National Police in Dnipropetrovsk Region is investigating a criminal proceeding on illegal dismissal of Maksim Shevchenko, Head of Credit Collection at JCS CB Privatbank, by Privatbank CEO Peter Krumhansl on May 27, 2019. Shevchenko is also the Chair of the Committee of the Primary Trade Union Organization of the employees of JSC CB Privatbank.

This has already led to a UAH 850,000 damage inflicted on the state. Despite Shevchenko having been dismissed, he was still paid his salary.

Krumhansl did not have legal grounds for dismissing Shevchenko from his position. He decided to impose disciplinary liability on Shevchenko:

On November 5, 2019, Peter Krumhansl, Chairman of the Board of Privatbank, issued the order No. KT-BT-SP-2019-7390857 on imposing a disciplinary measure in the form of a reprimand on Maksim Shevchenko, Head of Credit Collection, and also his deputy Ye.G. Yarin. They were accused of providing information regarding criminal offenses committed by Krumhansl to the member of parliament Aleksandr Dubinsky.

Peter Krumhansl is being investigated under Art. 369 Offering, of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - promising or providing undue benefit to an official.

Also, Larisa Chernyshova, a board member on risk management at Privatbank, initiated the falsification of information in an e-document regarding a business trip of Maksim Shevchenko.

Specifically, Larisa Chernyshova instructed a certain Konenko T.A. to create an order No. COM-HO-2019-7364215 dated October 2019 in PrivatDoc software on a business trip of Maksim Shevchenko, specifying him as the author, which is not true, and signed this document. Thus, she committed an unsanctioned interference with the operation of PrivatDoc software and entered false data into an official electronic document, i.e. committed an entirety of offenses under Par. 1 of Art. 361 (Willful interference with the operation of computers, computer systems, (must be comma) and networks) and Par. 1 of Art. 366 (Forgery in office).

Also, the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) is carrying out a pre-trial investigation in respect to Privatbank Board Member Larisa Chernyshova on the charges of preclusion of appearance of a witness before the SSU for questioning:

On July 29, 2019, Larisa Chernyshova unlawfully recalled her order No. COM-HO-2019-7036789 dated 24.07.2017 on a business trip of Maksim Shevchenko, Head of Credit Collection at Privatbank, to Kyiv for giving testimony to an SSU investigator in the criminal proceeding No. 420190000000001405. The testimony was related to a criminal offense, committed by Chernyshova under Par. 2 of Art. 364-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or office).

Chernyshova continued to preclude the appearance of the witness in the pre-trial investigation authority and his testimony in the aforementioned criminal proceeding through psychological abuse, i.e. committing a criminal offense under Par. 1 of Art. 386 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (preclusion of appearance of a witness, victim or expert, or compulsion to refuse to testify or give an opinion).