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🏦 So, 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 lands in its account. The same day all 54 are transferred to the VACs special account as part of the bail for the former minister. The money sat in the account for a few hours.
📑 And there are several such companies. One from Brovary: authorized capital 5 000 UAH, one employee, 25 business activity codes — from metal trading to freight transport — and no income in its reporting. The owner and nominal director is the defendant’s mother-in-law. Another is from the village of Shchaslyve, 31 business activity codes, no financial data at all: it received 5 million allegedly for goods and on the same day transferred it for bail. The largest flow — 72 million in cash, which hit the account through 137 fictitious payment operations from 68 sham firms and individual entrepreneurs.
🤯 And 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 put into maintenance mode at the time, 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 VACs hearing (they were selecting preventive measures for the former bank board chair) it was stated: according to the prosecution, the cash for bail on 9 June was organized by Mindich. And the bank’s leadership, according to 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 interceptions: “if Mindich pays — we can also deposit funds for other, smaller corrupt officials: the route already exists, and we won’t close it.” The route. They call it that themselves…. (The defense denies everything — “why specifically Mindich and where the cash came from is unclear.” The court will decide.)
🤬 And you know what’s most infuriating? There were three levels of protection: the bank’s own financial monitoring, the National Bank over the bank, and the State Financial Monitoring Service. Not one worked.
🗓️ Moreover, questions were raised in advance. In November last year at a meeting of our temporary investigative commission I asked the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service specifically about bails — about companies with an 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 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 financial monitoring — at least twice, totaling almost 52 million UAH. The problem was seen long before this story.
💁♂️ What am I getting at? There was no brilliant scheme. 34 thousand in profit for the year and 54 million in a day — that’s visible to the naked eye. The question is not that it wasn’t noticed. The question is that a window was opened for these funds.
📑 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 check the chain of origin of funds; risk factors — lack of staff, lack of reporting, recently registered company.
🗓️ And 02 September, next Wednesday, at 14:00 our temporary investigative commission will hold a public hearing 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 hearing is open.
🎬 And a detailed breakdown of the scheme, with recordings and with what they answered the commission last year, is in the video.
https://youtu.be/XGn6u33h2oY?si=KacQ-wAKYrcDgvMr
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