The Security Service and the Office of the Prosecutor General have gathered evidence indicating that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation facilitated the preparation for an aggressive war against Ukraine and continues to support it.
According to case materials and findings from independent research, the head of this financial institution, Elvira Nabiullina, was informed in advance about Putin's plans for a full-scale invasion of our state and made decisions at the central bank that facilitated military aggression.
For this purpose, according to the investigation, Nabiullina altered the bank's operational strategy to support the occupation, avoid sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation for the invasion of Ukraine, and facilitate the financing of the aggressor country's occupation groups.
The investigation materials also indicate that the funds held in the accounts of the Russian central bank opened in foreign jurisdictions are, in fact, one of the tools for conducting war.
This concerns nearly $300 billion, which, thanks to Ukraine's international partners, have been blocked in the accounts of the Central Bank of Russia worldwide.
Based on the evidence gathered by the Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office, this amount may potentially be subject to confiscation as funds of a legal entity against which criminal law measures will be applied, as provided by law.
Currently, as part of the relevant criminal proceedings, the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, has received a new suspicion under Part 2 of Article 437 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (planning, preparing, unleashing, and conducting an aggressive war).
Pre-trial investigations are ongoing.
