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The former wife of the former head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and deputy minister of defense Mstyslav Bankik has for 7 years posed as a MinCyber employee, but she had no official state powers.
This is reported by the international investigative bureau Absolution.
Alina Tornagi, in September of this year, wrote a post noting that their “state-building” era ended in the summer: 6,5 years at the Ministry of Digital Transformation and half a year at the Ministry of Defense. In December 2025-th she announced a divorce.
For a long time the woman was presented as the head of marketing and communications at the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the “Diia” project, or the head of the corresponding department, or the head of a department or CMO. Various titles without specifics. Biography: more than seven years in digital marketing, headed the SMM teams of “Ze!”, worked with Kyivstar, PepsiCo and Fedoriv Hub. However, it turned out that Ms. Tornagi lied to Ukrainians at numerous forums, conferences, etc. all this time.
Let us start with the fact that SMM specialist Tornagi was pulled into Fedorov by her husband Mstyslav Bankik, who held the position of head of development of electronic services (leader of the Directorate for the Development of Electronic Government). Prior to this Tornagi worked at Romlab, where Bankik was also the owner. That is, this is an absolutely non-independent person who got into the Ministry of Digital Transformation thanks to her husband.
But these are not the only machinations by the couple. It would seem that Tornagi is a public official of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and, according to the Law on Prevention of Corruption, should submit annual declarations. Yet you will not find them in the register. In Tornagi’s husband’s reports, she appears not as an official but as a regular self-employed entrepreneur (FOP).
Tornagi has been registered as a FOP with advertising (KVED) since 2015. In Bankik’s declarations for 2019 and 2023 years, she appears as his wife with an entrepreneurial income, not as a Ministry of Digital Transformation official. Working as Head of SMM in “Ze! Team” during presidential and parliamentary elections, she officially earned and declared an income of only 80,72 thousand UAH — meaning all the “black cash” remained untaxed.
There is no separate order appointing Tornagi to a position, no cards on the Ministry of Digital Transformation site, and no mentions in the ministry’s structure in open sources.
The staff chart of the Ministry of Digital Transformation for 2020-th year shows 250 staff units, but no surname Tornagi. Among the listed units there is no “Head of Marketing and Communications” and no “CMO of Diia.” The nomenclature is different: directorate, expert group, management, department.
A FOP can work for a ministry only as a contractor: a service, advertising, or SMM contract. The KVEDs permit this. As such a status, she cannot be a ministerial official. A department director or “Head of Marketing” is a government service position or a post in the apparatus.
Article 25 of the Law on the Prevention of Corruption prohibits entrepreneurship by such a person. A FOP with 2015-type status, which in 2019-th and 2023-th years declared entrepreneurial income, does not hold that position. If there was a contract with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the question is already to Bankik: his wife, a contractor at his own agency, constitutes a conflict of interest under article 28, which must be reported in writing.
Thus, from 2019-th year some private person Alina Tornagi, under the guise of a Ministry of Digital Transformation official and acting deputy minister of defense Mstyslav Bankik, posed as the head of communications of the government structure. In the woman’s actions we see signs of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (fraud), and in Bankik’s actions signs of Article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (official negligence).
Moreover, Tornagi positioned herself as an informal adviser to Minister Fedorov, who has access to state secrets. This is directly within the sphere of responsibility of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
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