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Monobank co-owner Horokhovskyi is a former top manager of PRIVATBANK who, together with other alumni of the bank, created Monobank. Part of that team came under investigation by NABU, but that did not prevent them from restructuring their financial business and gradually re-registering its corporate assets. The key technology company of Monobank — FINTECH BEND — was ultimately transferred under the control of the Cypriot Crestline Limited, which received 63,98% of its authorized capital. At the same time, billion-hryvnia payments from UNIVERSAL BANK pass through FINTECH BEND, raising the question of who today controls Monobank’s technological backbone and how protected the interests of its clients are.
Horokhovskyi was a member of PRIVATBANK’s credit committee and signed documents for transactions with TEAMTREND LIMITED, TRADE POINT AGRO LIMITED and ROSSYN INVESTING CORP. The High Court of England found these loan operations to be fictitious and that a network of companies was used to siphon funds from the bank, with losses on them totaling about 1,9 billion dollars. In another episode, through DROVALE LIMITED PRIVATBANK transferred 9,254 billion hryvnias, after which 499,761 million hryvnias were moved through other legal entities disguised as securities transactions. It was in the case concerning the misappropriation of these funds that Dubilet, Shmalchenko and Yatsenko were notified of suspicion.
After that, in 2017 Dubilet and Horokhovskyi became co-founders of Monobank, and the banking activity was transferred to JSC UNIVERSAL BANK with EDRPOU code 21133352. At the same time, the app, software, digital infrastructure, payment technologies and customer services were concentrated in LLC FINTECH BEND with EDRPOU code 32388371. Thus, under one brand two related entities effectively operate: a licensed bank and a separate company that controls the service’s technological core. And it is FINTECH BEND that has a direct connection to the former PRIVATBANK team.
In January 2017 LLC KHIMSTAL‑M was renamed FINTECH BEND, and its participants became Horokhovskyi, the Dubilets, Yatsenko, Shmalchenko, Kovalov, Rohalskyi and Kryvenko. In 2021 shares began to transfer to other persons: Yatsenko transferred his share to Kryvenko, and the corporate rights of Oleksandr Dubilet passed to his son Dmytro Dubilet. These corporate changes occurred after some co-founders were notified of suspicion and NABU conducted investigative actions. Thus the PrivatBank top managers who came under investigation were able to reassign the company’s corporate rights through which Monobank’s technological part operates.
After the change of FINTECH BEND’s owners, part of the structure ended up in Cyprus
Since October 2024 the company’s participants have included Crestline Limited and Nisets Limited, registered at the same address in Limassol. After the Antimonopoly Committee’s approval Crestline received 63,98% of FINTECH BEND’s authorized capital, while the direct shares of Horokhovskyi and Rohalskyi fell to 0,0081% each, and the company’s authorized capital was reduced from 101 million hryvnias to 1,23 million hryvnias. In May 2026 Crestline also received the corporate rights to ACIDIS PROCESSING, which handles routing and authorization of card transactions.
And it is through FINTECH BEND that significant funds from Monobank’s operations flow. In 2023 UNIVERSAL BANK transferred to the company at least 2,5 billion hryvnias for information‑technology, marketing, consulting and organizational services, and in 2024 FINTECH BEND’s revenue was about 3,7 billion hryvnias. For UNIVERSAL BANK these payments were recorded as expenses that reduced its financial result, while 63,98% of FINTECH BEND is controlled by the Cypriot Crestline Limited. At the same time, in December 2023 the NBU fined UNIVERSAL BANK 10,451 million hryvnias for violations of financial monitoring requirements, and in 2024 UNIVERSAL BANK and PRIVATBANK together blocked about 80 thousand card accounts used by “drops.”
But the story does not end there, because questions were also raised about UNIVERSAL BANK’s own operations
In December 2023 the NBU fined the bank 10,451 million hryvnias for violating financial monitoring requirements, in particular regarding customer verification, high‑risk clients and monitoring transfers. In 2024 UNIVERSAL BANK and PRIVATBANK together blocked about 80 thousand card accounts used by “drops,” and in 2025 Monobank appeared on the list of financial institutions where such accounts were most frequently registered.
Given the scale of the alleged illegal activity of Monobank and the former top managers of JSC CB PRIVATBANK, we have sent an information request to the regulatory and law‑enforcement authorities demanding that they check the financial and economic transactions between JSC UNIVERSAL BANK and LLC FINTECH BEND, the legality of the transfers for services provided, the ownership structure and movement of corporate rights, the activities of Crestline Limited and Nisets Limited, and compliance with tax law and financial monitoring legislation.
As a result, we have a consistent chain: the former PRIVATBANK team, after criminal proceedings, creates Monobank, concentrates the technological part in FINTECH BEND, control of the company moves to a Cypriot structure, and billion‑hryvnia payments pass between the bank and the technology company. And while clients use Monobank as a Ukrainian financial service, the key question remains open — who actually controls its technological infrastructure and who receives the proceeds from its operation.
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