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🔐 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 “Dominanta Trade”: on regulators’ radar
🔸In December 2024 the NBU sent a letter to all banks about a scheme to circumvent currency restrictions using US government bonds. Three companies were named in the letter: ICU, Univer Capital, and Dominanta Trade LLC.
The mechanics, according to the NBU: a client buys treasuries with hryvnia that are about to mature, transfers them to a foreign depository, and receives dollars abroad. According to the regulator, most of the funds did not return. The scheme was closed by the National Securities and Stock Market Commission only on 23 December — a week before the IMF memorandum deadline.
🔸In June 2025, Ekonomichna Pravda again named Dominanta among the largest resellers of currency-denominated OVDPs for hryvnia — another way to buy currency while avoiding restrictions.
🔸Currently the Depository Institution is featured in criminal proceeding No. 42025100000000212 (part 3 of article 212 and part 2 of article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — tax evasion on a particularly large scale and legalization). Through external government loan bonds (OZDP) series XS2895055981 with a face value of 1 dollars, cashless funds were routed through auto importers to nonresidents, and the cars were sold for cash. Primekver opened securities accounts in Dominanta. Officials of the institution are not named in the ruling, and there is no information about any charges announced.
💼 Who owns it
86,73% of the authorized capital (7,025 million of 8,1 million UAH) belongs to an individual, the sole founder and beneficiary — Oleg Oleshko. Another 13,27% is owned by JSC “ZNVKIF Bekton,” whose director and ultimate beneficiary is the same Oleshko. So control is complete: directly and through his own fund.
Since November 2025 the fund has been in liquidation: capital 125 million UAH, zero employees. In other words, one link in Dominanta’s ownership chain began disappearing even before the public disclosure.
The director of Dominanta is Oleg Voitov. The company has broker and depository licenses since 2013–2014 years and is a member of PARD. The court register contains over a hundred documents mentioning the company. Separately, Dominanta appears as the depository of shares of Kyivmedpreparat and Halychpharm in an SBU tax case concerning the Innovation Fund — there it is only a custodian, not a subject of the case.
🕵️♂️ Conversion center from a “shell company factory”
Primekver LLC, which the investigation calls a conversion center, was created as Kvertex Prime. The founder is Serhiy Seko, one of the country’s largest mass registrars: as of 2024 he was behind 810 companies. After renaming, the firm with authorized capital of 500 UAH changed its profile from accounting to car trading. The owner and director now is Valentyna Larchenko.
Importers that don’t look like businesses
✔️According to an analytical study by the State Tax Service cited in the ruling, in 2025–2026 years Mega Autolux PE sold 1035 cars for 626 million UAH and understated VAT by 39 million UAH. At the same time, its reporting for 2024 year shows zero revenue and one employee. An important discrepancy: the current owner and director is Vasyl Stoian, not Oleksandr Shkovyra as reported in publications. According to the ruling’s text, the director of Mega Autolux on 20 October stated he was not involved in the company’s activities and admitted that he registered it for money. It was not possible to determine from open sources when the owner changed.
✔️Toptrade Zakhid LLC (Rivne, director Serhiy Omelkovets) appears in another case. In March 2026 the SBU and the Prosecutor General’s Office, within proceeding No. 42024000000000539, seized the company’s financial documents along with papers of several other firms. The arrest was confirmed in July by the Kyiv Court of Appeal.
✔️New Autolife PE (Oleksandr Mahdyuk) — over 2 thousand customs entries, mostly used cars.
📌 The NBU had already warned banks about Dominanta, the press named it among key players in the market for currency OVDPs, and on 22 July 2026 the NBU separately tightened sanctions control of depositories over operations with OZDP. Questions for investigators and regulators: why does the same institution appear for the third time alongside schemes the state is trying to shut down?
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