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The State Bureau of Investigations (DBR) is obliged to open a criminal proceeding regarding the alleged forgery of documents about the professional education of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyi. Such a decision was made 5 August by the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv, economist Borys Kushniruk said in a column for UNIAN.
According to Kushniruk, 5 August satisfied a complaint about the DBR’s inaction and obliged the bureau to enter information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and start an investigation.
"I will emphasize the particularly important wording of the ruling: my statement contains 'sufficient information that may indicate the commission of a criminal offense,'" the economist said.
According to him, the basis is materials from criminal case No. 1-P-7/07 from the paper archive of the Zariichnyi District Court of Sumy. It concerned official document forgery regarding education at .
Kushniruk claims that the Sumy branch of the "University of Contemporary Knowledge" issued documents confirming higher education to people who in fact had not studied there. Among them was the current head of the NBU, Andriy Pyshnyi, the economist asserts.
"Officials of the educational institution drew up documents for three people who in fact never studied there. Among them the name Pyshnyi Andriy Hryhorovych was clearly indicated. Later this information received not just insider but official confirmation. Two rulings of the Zariichnyi District Court of the city of Sumy dated 21 May 2007 were published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions – No. 137921791 and No. 137921807. They were officially posted 6 July 2026. The surnames in them are anonymized, but the NBU head is identified by the unique coincidence of documents and dates," the expert's column says.
According to his version, a protocol of an interview, an academic record card and an academic certificate with false information were issued in Pyshnyi’s name. On the basis of these documents he was enrolled immediately into the fourth year of the Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the NBU, which he graduated from in 2005 with a specialization in "Banking."
"Moreover, the materials state that Pyshnyi personally requested that the diploma be provided in an accelerated timeframe. So the version 'I didn’t know anything, they just issued me the document' increasingly resembles a satirical tale," Kushniruk emphasized.
Kushniruk called on the people's deputies of Ukraine to create a temporary investigative commission, summon Pyshnyi to parliament, obtain the documents submitted during his appointment, and consider a vote of no confidence in the head of the National Bank.
"The court has done its job. Now it’s up to the DBR, the parliament and the president," Kushniruk said.
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