Loss of Quorum at Sense Bank: Former Chair of the Supervisory Board Shevki Adjuner Accuses State Agencies of Deliberately Blocking Operations

Loss of quorum at Sense Bank: former Chairman of the Supervisory Board Shevki Adjun er accused state bodies of deliberate blockage of work

The initial composition of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board was not formed due to inaction by state authorities, then Vesely joined the formation.

This is reported by the Anticorruption Center "MEZHA".

Former chair of the board Shevki Adjun er claims that state bodies deliberately did not complete the first composition of the Sense Bank Supervisory Board, despite numerous warnings. And candidates for the next Supervisory Board, as became known from the Mendi ch tapes, were discussed by former adviser to the head of Sense Bank Vasyl Vesely.

According to Adjun er, only five of the nine members were appointed to the first Supervisory Board. At the end of the transition period, six were needed for a quorum.

Adjun er and other board members repeatedly warned state authorities: without new appointments the Supervisory Board would lose its quorum, would be unable to make decisions and would stop controlling the bank’s operations. But the board was never completed. This is what happened. The Supervisory Board lost the ability to make decisions.

At the same time, Adjun er emphasizes that he did not submit his resignation. Independent members were also ready to continue working. According to him, it was enough for the state to appoint the absent members and restore the quorum. Instead, the formation of the Supervisory Board from scratch began.

And then in this story Vasyl Vesely appears—the adviser to the head of Sense Bank, whom the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshnyy recommended for this position. In the Mendi ch tapes, Vesely and Oleksandr Tsukerman discussed candidates for the new composition of the supervisory board of the state bank.

Subsequently, Sense Bank illegally laundered 150 million hryvnias in cash.

As the portal ANTICOR had previously reported, the former head of the Supervisory Board of Sense Bank, Shevki Adjun er (led it in 2023 year) said that Vasyl Vesely was personally introduced to him by the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshnyy as a person who "was to establish communications of the Supervisory Board with stakeholders."