Business news from Ukraine

National Bank revoked licenses of two more insurance companies

3 March , 2023  

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revoked the licenses of ALC IC Amji-Insurance (Kiev) and PJSC IC VONA to provide financial services due to the non-compliance of their ownership structure with the legislation. (Lviv), reported on the website of the regulator.
The decision to cancel the licenses was taken by the board of the NBU on March 2, 2023 in accordance with Article 381 of the law “On Financial Services and State Regulation of Financial Services Markets”.
The NBU informs that according to the last submitted financial statements for the year 2022 the amount of insurance premiums of the company as of December 31, 2022 was UAH 1.927 million, the value of assets – UAH 39.322 thousand, insurance reserves – UAH 270 thousand. The market share of the company on insurance premiums amounted to 0,006%.
According to the last submitted statements of IC “VONA” for 2022, the value of its assets amounted to UAH 31,098 mln. There were no insurance premiums, insurance reserves. The market share of the company on insurance premiums – 0,0%.
After the revocation of license the financial institution is deprived of the right to operate by the types of licenses withdrawn, but does not relieve the financial institution from its obligations under contracts for the provision of financial services.
IC “Amji Insurance” (until March 2019 – OTO “OTL-Insurance”) specializes in risk insurance. According to the data of the company, published on its website, as of the beginning of 2022 its shareholders were 16 individuals.
IC “VONA” (former IC Veltva) has been incorporated in October, 1995. Since 1997 it is a member of the Motor (transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine, the Kharkov Union of Insurers, “Insurance business” association and the Kharkov Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In October 2013 IC “VELTA” has rebranded to PrJSC “Insurance company “WONA” and changed its location to Lvov.
According to the website of the insurer, its shareholder on January 1, 2022 is LLC “UKR SEL” (Lviv), which owns 99.9% of the insurer. Through it, Tatiana Barbaniuk owns 13,9986% of the insurer, Yaroslav Ishchak – 41,276%, Roman Kapustin – 44,816%.

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