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He scored the lowest among all candidates, but the competition committee was not deterred.
In the initial short list of candidates for membership on the supervisory board of Sense Bank, Mykola Hladyshenko, who appears in NABU’s Forest Gump operation transcripts, there was none. This was confirmed during a Verkhovna Rada short-term commission hearing by Vyestarus Liegis, director of LLC Executive Search Ukraine (AMROP). He explained how Hladyshenko made it onto the short list.
“Indeed, when AMROP submitted the short list 5 in February 2025, Mykhailo Hladyshenko was not on it. However, the competition committee reviewed that short list and asked to consider certain other Ukrainian candidates. And regarding regulation, they have the right to add or remove candidates. Therefore they added a few Ukrainian candidates, including Hladyshenko,” Liegis noted.
After that AMROP sent profiles of the candidates, including Hladyshenko. On that basis, the competition committee conducted interviews with the candidates, among whom was already the current person named in the Forest Gump case.
“There were 111 candidates. All of them are evaluated according to the methodology approved by the competition committee. As a result, all candidates received a certain number of points. Mykhailo Hladyshenko received the smallest number of points. There were candidates who were more competent and had greater experience. Therefore he was not included in the initial short list. Regarding whether this information was transmitted to the competition committee, I 16 sent an email in November in which I stated that we do not recommend including certain individuals in the short list and considering their candidacies, including Mykhailo Hladyshenko,” he added.
He explained that his company acts as a service provider and does not make any decisions. And the competition committee acts as their client. So they, as a client, can ask AMROP to perform certain work, for example, to conduct an assessment of candidates’ suitability.
“They ask us to conduct assessments of some candidates. We perform the assessments and report the results to the competition committee. And the competition committee then makes decisions regarding candidates and their inclusion in the short list. And we indicated that we do not recommend some candidates,” Liegis added.
At the same time, the Ministry of Finance did not support the appointment of Hladyshenko to the supervisory board of Sense Bank and was even surprised. Yet, despite that, Hladyshenko was nevertheless appointed to the supervisory board.
Recall that after the materials collected within the Forest Gump operation regarding fundraising for the bail of former minister of economy and justice Herman Halushchenko were made public, the powers of the head of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board, Mykola Hladyshenko, were decided to be terminated. The NBU opened an administrative proceeding to assess the overall suitability of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board.
According to the investigation, to legalized 150 million hryvnias in cash intended for posting bail for the former minister of energy and justice Herman Halushchenko, controlled companies and individuals, as well as Sense Bank management, were involved. The Forest Gump operation materials mention former deputy head of the presidential administration Iryna Mudra, former MP Maksym Mykyta, a former member of parliament from the former OPZZh Vadym Stolar, head of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board Mykola Hladyshenko, head of the bank’s management Oleg Stupak, and others. The investigation describes several tranches transferred to Mykyta’s office in June, after which part of the money was funneled through so-called washing. According to NABU, Hladyshenko reported to Mudra about the transportation and legalization of the funds. 29 In June, for Halushchenko, bail was posted in the amount of 150 million hryvnias.
Moreover, according to ZN.UA, while in pre-trial detention Halushchenko began discussing with NABU and SAP possible cooperation with the investigation through his lawyers. There were several such conversations. At the same time, Halushchenko’s lawyers transmitted to Bankova a signal: if the issue with bail is not resolved, the former minister may start cooperating with the investigation and testify about the people at higher levels of the corruption chain. On Bankova, this signal, according to our sources, was taken seriously. It was after this that the search for 150 million hryvnias for bail began.
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