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🏦 Well, here’s the story about how they wired money for bail in the amount of 150 million. And this is one of those cases where the scheme didn’t even try to look complicated.
💁♂️ A company from Dobropillia. Three employees. Net profit last year — 34 400 UAH. On 25 June, 54 million hit its account. The same day all 54 were sent to the WACC special account as part of the bail for the former minister. The money stayed in the account for several hours.
📑 And there are several such companies. One from Brovary: authorized capital 5 000 UAH, one employee, 25 KVED codes — from metal trading to freight transport — and no income in the reports. The owner and nominee director is the defendant’s mother-in-law. Another is from the village of Shchaslyve, 31 KVEDs, no financial data at all: it received 5 million allegedly for goods and the same day transferred it for bail. The largest flow — 72 million in cash, which entered the account through 137 fictitious payment operations from 68 sham companies and sole proprietors.
🤯 Now the main point. All this should have hit the bank’s financial monitoring. But it didn’t. According to the investigation, the payment control system was temporarily put into maintenance mode, and participants were told the exact hour. During this coordinated window the payment went through automatically — no living person saw it.
🤷♂️ The system didn’t break. They turned it off for half an hour.
🕵️♂️ Now about whose money this was. Today at the WACC hearing (choosing preventive measure for the former bank board chair) it was said: according to the prosecution, the cash for the bail on 9 June was organized by Mindich. And the bank’s management, according to the SAP, agreed to operate “under informal control” — because the previous “curator” of the bank, “leader of the criminal organization Mindich,” is wanted. And the cherry from the wiretaps: “if Mindich pays — we can also deposit funds for other, smaller corrupt officials: the route already exists, and we’re not closing it.” Route. They call it that themselves…. (The defense denies everything — “why Mindich specifically and where the cash came from is unclear.” The court will decide.)
🤬 And you know what’s most annoying? There were three layers of protection: the bank’s own financial monitoring, the National Bank over the bank, and the State Financial Monitoring Service. None of them worked.
🗓️ Moreover, the questions were raised in advance. In November last year at our TSC meeting I asked the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service specifically about bails — about firms with authorized capital of one thousand hryvnias. The answer: “there is a request from NABU, we are working on it,” “I don’t know from which bank the deposits were made.” That was November 2025. And in June 2026 — the same window in the same bank….
📊 By the way, the National Bank has already fined this bank for violations in the sphere of financial monitoring — at least twice, totaling almost 52 million UAH. The problem was seen long before this story.
💁♂️ Why am I saying this? There wasn’t a brilliant scheme. 34 thousand profit for the year and 54 million in one day — that’s visible to the naked eye. The issue isn’t that it went unnoticed. The issue is that they opened a window for this money.
📑 So specifically. My colleagues and I submitted bill No. 15388 on strengthened checks of bail payments: a public list of those who post bail; the ability for NABU and SAP to quickly verify the chain of origin of funds; risk factors — lack of staff, lack of reporting, recently registered company.
🗓️ And on 02 September, next Wednesday, at 14:00 our TSC is holding a public meeting on this situation. NABU and SAP, the Ministry of Finance, the National Bank, the State Financial Monitoring Service, Oschadbank, the company that selected the supervisory board, and the management of Sense Bank are invited. The meeting is open.
🎬 And a detailed breakdown of the scheme, with recordings and with what they answered the TSC last year, is in the video.
https://youtu.be/XGn6u33h2oY?si=KacQ-wAKYrcDgvMr
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