"Not True": Pyshnyi Denied Recommending Vesely to Sense Bank

The head of the NBU (National Bank of Ukraine) calls for a repeated meeting of the Interdepartmental Committee on the issue, with all parties present.

Ukrainian National Bank Governor Andriy Pyschny (Pyszny) denied that he personally recommended appointing Vasyl Vese ly o as an advisor to the Bank’s Supervisory Board of the state-owned Sense Bank to the former head of the bank’s Supervisory Board, Shevki Adzhuner, as he stated at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s Temporary Investigative Commission on Thursday, 10 September.

“My position on the substance of these issues is unambiguous. I categorically deny making any recommendations on personnel matters to the Supervisory Board of Sense Bank. I did not provide any recommendations regarding the appointment of Vasyl Vese ly o as an advisor to the Supervisory Board, did not present him to the Supervisory Board, did not give directives to the members of the Supervisory Board about this or any other personnel decisions, and did not exert any pressure on the head or members of the Supervisory Board of Sense Bank. Claims to the contrary do not reflect the reality,” he wrote on Facebook.

Pyschny added that he does not contest the fact of knowing Vese ly o and did not hide it at the last week’s TSK meeting. At the same time, he stated that he demands an urgent additional meeting of the committee with all persons involved in today’s statements.

“There should be no room for assumptions or imposed interpretations on such issues. If the TSK has questions for me, they must be put directly to me, not formed through the interpretation of other people’s testimony,” he added.

For its part, the TSK chair, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, wrote in Telegram that he would be happy to hold another TSK meeting on this topic with the participation of the NBU head, but it is most likely to take place next week.

Recall that in his statement the TSK, Shevki Adzhuner stated that he was offered Vasyl Vsessello’s candidacy as a communications advisor with state bodies by the NBU, although he had no experience in either communications or banking. During the meeting, Adzhuner repeatedly noted that Dmitro Oliynyk, a member of the NBU’s management board who previously worked in the Office of the President, participated in the discussion about appointing Vasyl Vseselyo.

Former adviser to the head of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board Vasyl Vese ly o, notably, features on the so‑called “Mandić tapes,” where together with Oleksandr Tskeryman they discussed appointing “their” people to the new composition of Sense Bank’s supervisory board.

At the same time, this story is connected to the NABU investigation “Forrest Gump” into the legalization of money to post bail for former minister Herman Halushchenko, into which controlled companies and individuals, as well as Sense Bank management, including Sense Bank’s chairman of the board Oleh Stupak and the head of the Supervisory Board, Mykola Hladyshenko, were drawn. Both have already been removed from their positions, and the head of the NBU, Andriy Pyschny, claimed that he had long pointed out problems at Sense Bank.