Dubai, Sense Bank and currency schemes: how NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Oleynyk may have built a loyalty system

Dubai, Sense Bank and currency schemes: how NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Oleynyk may have built a loyalty system

Since October 2022, Dmytro Oleynyk has been responsible at the National Bank for prudential supervision and financial monitoring, directly representing Andriy Pyshnyi. His division approves bank management boards, supervisory boards and the people who sign off on financial operations. According to sources, collateral for Herman Halushchenko in the state-owned Sense Bank amounted to 150 million UAH. Now those same officials whom the NBU system previously approved are under scrutiny.

Media outlets report this.

In November 2025, the High Anti-Corruption Court obliged NABU to open a criminal case regarding Oleynyk’s possible illicit enrichment. The case concerned, in particular, an apartment in Dubai Zenith Tower in the Al Hebiah Fourth area. The property’s owner in the registers was listed as his ex-wife, Olha Kushnir.

The apartment rental began on 11 July 2023, and Oleynyk’s official divorce from Kushnir was registered on 28 December. In the declaration for 2023, Oleynyk listed her income of 7,7 million UAH from Dubai Media City and a residence permit in the UAE, but the apartment itself was not in the declaration.

In the ex-wife’s accounts at CITIBANK Dubai, according to the provided data, there were $155 thousand and 39 thousand euros, as well as funds in accounts in Vienna. The investigators call the divorce fictitious.

The Kyiv apartment of 130,8 sq. m, bought back in 2019 for 10,3 million UAH, was transferred in 2024 to his minor son Artem. Oleynyk himself now only “uses” the residence. In the 2024 declaration, the wife and all her assets had already disappeared.

That same year Oleynyk actively purchased government bonds — 21 issuance, 14 of which were denominated in dollars and euros. The total amounted to over 3,4 million UAH. At the same time he gifted bonds worth 4,9 million UAH to an unknown person. The cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash, which appeared in a previous declaration, vanished.

Oleynyk’s son and his mother rent an apartment in Vienna. The rental cost is not specified in the declaration.

In banking circles Oleynyk is nicknamed “Lysyi.” According to sources at Sense Bank, he personally called Snihur, who is responsible for financial monitoring, and asked her to execute payments secured by Halushchenko’s collateral.

The candidacies of Mykola Hladyshchenko and Oleksii Stupak, it is claimed, passed all the filters of the Licensing Department and the Financial Monitoring Department — the vertical overseen by Oleynyk. Now, after NABU revealed how 150 million UAH in cash could have been laundered through the state bank, Pyshnyi and Oleynyk are demanding the removal of the very people they had approved.

At a meeting of the temporary special commission in the “Midas operation” case, Oleynyk stated that Ukraine has no registry to identify the origin of specific foreign currency bills seized from suspects. Economist Borys Kushniruk, for his part, directly asserts that the supervisor of banking oversight could not have been unaware of money-extraction schemes from Energoatom.

There are separate reports of Oleynyk meeting in Vienna with Oleg Bakhmatyuk — a banker sought in the case of embezzling 1,2 billion UAH of the NBU’s stabilization loan to VAB Bank. Oleynyk is responsible for banking supervision. Contact with a figure in such a case looks like a classic conflict of interest. Bakhmatyuk lives in Vienna, where, according to the provided data, an apartment is formally rented by Oleynyk’s ex-wife.

Meanwhile, investigations uncovered currency-extraction schemes through Ukrainsky Kapital Bank. Sources claim that clients showing signs of scheme activity paid the bank about 0,8% of transaction volumes, of which 0,3% supposedly went “for regulatory loyalty.” Similar allegations were made about Pavel Shcherban’s Bank Alliance and Motor Bank — involving hundreds of millions of dollars disguised as fictitious imports. In these publications Oleynyk is mentioned alongside the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Filip Pronin.

Oleynyk has been Pyshnyi’s protégé since their time at Oschadbank, where he headed the risk management department. The gift of an apartment to his son for 10 million UAH, accounts in Dubai, a fake divorce, calls to Sense Bank’s financial monitoring, silence about Bakhmatyuk and the Ukrainsky Kapital scheme — these do not look like isolated incidents.

This is the vertical Oleynyk has been building since 2022. And while NABU is forced to investigate what the High Anti-Corruption Court has already ordered to open, the NBU deputy governor continues to oversee supervision of the entire banking system.