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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office are conducting searches at the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyi.
As reported by Dilo, journalist of Ukrainska Pravda, Mykhailo Tkach, disclosed this.
"According to sources in Ukrainska Pravda within political circles, the head of the National Bank Pyshnyi is being subjected to searches by NABU and SAP," he wrote.
Tkach did not provide further details.
Danylo Hetmanets, the head of the Parliament's Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy Committee, has already reacted to this news. The deputy noted that he expects a statement from Pyshnyi about unprecedented pressure on the regulator from NABU.
"Otherwise, it will turn out that almost a year of Hetmanets’s claims about crimes committed by Pyshnyi, while demanding his resignation, were, as always, true. And certainly, the question of removing the corrupt person should be considered closed. To disgrace the only strong financial institution and to disgrace oneself is something one must be able to do," Hetmanets stated.
Earlier, the head of the parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs policy, after the NABU and SAP case regarding state-owned JSC Sense Bank, demanded Pyshnyi’s resignation.
19 In August, after the NABU and SAP case, the government decided to suspend the head of the supervisory board of Sense Bank JSC, Mykola Hladyshenko, from duties for six months and initiated the suspension of the head of the management, Oleksiy Stupak.
Thereafter, the National Bank's Committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Activity decided that Mykola Hladyshenko, head of the Sense Bank supervisory board, did not meet the independence requirements established by law.
The National Bank also opened administrative proceedings to assess the collective unsuitability of the supervisory board.
What is known about the case?
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced a new special operation — "Forest Gump" — to expose "high-level corruption."
According to investigators, the defendants took control of Sense Bank to use it for private interests. Specifically — to pay a bail for a defendant in the "Midas" operation (also the Timur Mindich case) with money of criminal origin.
Law enforcement did not name the person for whom the bail was being raised. However, the disclosed details point to former energy and justice minister German Halyuschenko.
In February, the High Anti-Corruption Court detained Halyuschenko with the possibility of posting bail.
German Halyuschenko is a figure in the large-scale "Midas" operation (also the Mindich case) exposing corruption in the energy sector. According to investigators, businessman Timur Mindich had influence over Halyuschenko, and the minister was involved in money laundering.
According to law enforcement, the criminal group included:
the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (referring to Iryna Mudra);
the chairman of the management board and the head of the supervisory board of the state-owned "Sense Bank" (referring to Oleksiy Stupak and Mykola Hladyshenko);
a former member of parliament (referring to Maksym Mykytasy).
That same day, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Iryna Mudra from the position of deputy head of the Office of the President. The corresponding decree is dated 19 August.
25 In August, the High Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the prosecution’s request regarding a preventive measure for former deputy head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra, who is also a figure in this case. The court chose to keep her in custody with an alternative bail of 20 million hryvnias.
8 In October Mudra was posted the full bail amount and was released from pre-trial detention.
2 In September, the High Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the prosecution’s motion and chose a preventive measure for Sense Bank’s chair Oleksiy Stupak in the form of bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnias.
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