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“Vasya from the NABU tapes” holds 20% of the bank
As part of the “Forrest Gump” operation, recordings were released about 150 million UAH for bail for former minister Herman Halushchenko. On the recordings one of the figures is “Vasya.” According to Ukrainska Pravda, this is businessman Vasyl Astion.
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) stated his role in the criminal organization directly: “he was responsible for the judicial support of all decisions so that courts would make them in the interests of the group’s participants.” Not a “cashier,” as Telegram posts wrote, but the judicial overseer for the Stolar-Mykytas brigade.
🔐 What none of the published investigations has said so far:
Through the non-bank financial company Genesis Capital, Vasyl Astion and his brother Yevhen each own 9,99% of JSC Bank “Ukrainian Capital.” Together — 19,98% of the bank.
These are official National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) data as of 31 January 2020.
✔️Belashov S.V. (family) — 44,87% (indirectly)
✔️Belashova L.I. — 20,00%
✔️Kiva Natalia Ivanivna — 20,00%
✔️Fedorovych Ye.I. — 11,40%
✔️Astion Yevhen Mykolayovych — 9,99%
✔️Astion Vasyl Mykolayovych — 9,99%
✔️Kiva Vladyslav M. — 4,13% (chairman of the bank’s board until 20.01.2020)
✔️Tikhomirova L.V. — 3,01% (business partner of Vitaliy Khomutynnik, partner of the Astions in Cascade Group and Dnipro Agro Alliance)
The Astions are recorded as two packages of 9,99%, not one at 19,98%. By law “significant participation” starts at 10%. Two brothers at 9,99% each, so formally neither is “significant.” The NBU has no grounds to require approval. This is a classic circumvention of threshold regulation.
And a separate anomaly: the current ownership structure of the bank has not been publicly updated since 31.01.2020. On the NBU’s supervision page the current ultimate holders of significant participation are listed as Belashov, Belashova, Zlydar, Kiva. The Astions are no longer listed there. But there is no official ownership-structure file in the NBU archive.
⚙️ Where did 19,98% of the bank go? To whom was it sold? In the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) declarations of the Astions for 2020–2023 the sale is not recorded.
Interestingly, at the end of 2023 the NBU revoked all licenses of LLC FC “Fingroup Factor” (100% owned by the Astions). The reason — “refusal to allow an inspection.” Then the State Bureau of Investigations and the Office of the Prosecutor General announced suspicion against Vasyl Astion for tax evasion of 61,4 million UAH. Judge Saidullaev (Zhovtnevyi District Court of Dnipro) reduced the bail by 61 times: from 61,4 to 1 million UAH.
Then in February 2024 the Antimonopoly Committee allowed the Astions, via “Fingroup,” to buy DK Cascade and Inter Way Capital from Khomutynnik. Astion’s own case was closed in March 2025 “due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.”
August 2026 — the NABU tapes. Astion — the judicial overseer for Stolar’s brigade.
Between 29.12.2023 and 09.01.2024 — 11 days. One state body revokes the license of a financial company. A second within 11 days announces suspicion of the beneficiary. A third within 3 days reduces the bail by 61 times. A fourth within 30 days allows them to buy new assets.
And all this time the brothers hold 19,98% of the bank with an NBU license. A bank whose current ownership structure the NBU has not published for six years.
⚙️ Questions the NBU must answer:
✔️Who are today the owners of 19,98% of JSC Bank “Ukrainian Capital” that were previously registered to the Astions?
✔️When, to whom, and for how much were the packages sold? Was the disposal approved by the NBU?
✔️How many suspicious transaction reports did the bank file with the State Financial Monitoring Service in 2020–2026?
✔️Did funds related to LLC Tetras Optima, Hiran Construct, Skyt Retail, Pellet Service — the ones through which 150 million for Halushchenko were legalized — pass through correspondent accounts?
✔️Why did the NBU decide in December 2023 to purge “Fingroup Factor” — but did not launch a parallel inspection of “Ukrainian Capital,” where the same beneficiaries held 20%?
“Sense Bank,” through which 150 million were officially laundered, submitted more than 589 aggregated materials to the State Financial Monitoring Service from 2025 through May 2026. That is why Sense’s top managers — Hladyshchenko, Stupak, Snihur — were included among the figures in “Forrest Gump.” And “Ukrainian Capital” — the bank in which the Astions owned almost a fifth — and about which the public register is silent — still hasn’t even been mentioned by anyone.
What Astion himself told Economic Truth on 12 June: “I am not acquainted with Halushchenko, with his lawyers, and no one approached me with an offer to help post bail.” Two months later — his voice on the NABU tapes and the role of “judicial overseer” in the VAKS ruling.
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