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How did NBU negligence put the personal data of millions of Ukrainians into the hands of the Russian Federation?
The National Bank #НБУ under the leadership of Andriy #Пишний has been at the center of a major scandal due to years of inaction surrounding the Fondy payment system.
📌Only after direct intervention by law enforcement, which presented evidence of threats to national security, did the regulator revoke the right of LLC “FC “ELAYNS” to operate, the company that owned this platform. Until that point the service had been freely processing millions of Ukrainians’ payments, offering a free PRRO with data transmission to the tax authority, and operating in more than one hundred fifty currencies. Despite the cancellation of its registration and the company’s removal from the international Visa and MasterCard systems, Fondy’s digital infrastructure continues to operate, endangering citizens’ personal data and financial resources.
An analysis of the company beneficiaries’ activities revealed shocking facts of close ties with the aggressor state. ❗️The ultimate owner of the service, V. Vagorovska, for years maintained business contacts with Russia through her brother O. Bondarenko, who ran the Russian founding company of Fondy, leasing software from the Ukrainian platform. Moreover, the investigation documented the use of the Russian payment system “Mir” and widespread use of miscoding to conceal the real purpose of transactions and evade financial monitoring.
The roots of these schemes go back to 2014, when Vagorovska’s structures were integrated into the operation of the “Unified Wallet W1” system, facilitating financial flows between the occupied territories of Donbas and Russia. When the scandal became public, the owners tried to urgently sell the asset to TBC Bank Group, but the deal collapsed after the NBU’s belated yet timely cancellation of the registration, after which the potential investor withdrew its documents.
Despite this, the service remains active and continues to transmit Ukrainians’ data to Russia, while National Bank head Andriy Pyshnyy exhibits silent observance.
✅In this regard, a harsh complaint has been sent to regulatory and law enforcement agencies demanding an immediate inspection of the legality of the payment infrastructure’s continued operation, the use of Mir cards, the location of servers and databases, as well as the blocking of the company’s accounts and its inclusion in the list of high-risk counterparties.
The public must receive a clear answer as to why, during a full-scale war, the financial regulator allows the enemy to control Ukrainians’ sensitive information.
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