On July 31 Premier Valery Pustovoitenko prepared to sign an order returning to Ukraine's largest financial institution, Prominvestbank (Industrial Investment Bank), into its longed-for lap of the budget sphere. However, The Day has been unable to confirm whether the document has actually been signed.
On July 14 the Cabinet jointly with the National Bank barred Prominvestbank from serving budget-supported organizations, requiring the bank to return 100 million hryvnias to the treasury and threatening its clients with the suspension of financing from the budget if they did not immediately close their accounts in the bank. Prominvestbank CEO Volodymyr Matviyenko stated that the bank was thus punished for refusing to provide money to pay miners. The bank responded that it would return the state money only after the state had paid off its debts to the bank.
The scandal ended in a compromise. According to the bank's press service, it extended the state a modest 17 million loan for the State Reserve secured by this year's harvest, the value of which exceeds that of the loan.






