Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
The head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshny, wrote a resignation letter after searches were conducted by NABU and SAP.
This was reported to Dilo by a source in the banking market.
According to him, during the search of Pyshny, two personal mobile phones were seized.
Pyshny has already written a resignation letter of his own accord due to health reasons.
His resignation was planned immediately after returning from the annual IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok. The source said that then Pyshny refused to leave his post of his own accord.
Note that officially Pyshny has not yet announced that he wrote a resignation letter.
Andriy Pyshny has been serving as the head of the National Bank of Ukraine since 7 October 2022.
Who will head the NBU in Pyshny's place
The most likely candidate to replace Pyshny, according to the source, is his first deputy Serhiy Nikolaychuk. Among other possible candidates are Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and Vasyl Horbaly, a member of the NBU Council.
Meanwhile, Marchenko reportedly declined to head the National Bank.
Searches of Pyshny
20 October NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office conducted searches of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshny.
NABU searches are connected with the KarpatNefteKhim plant and the nationalized Sense Bank, said in a Telegram channel by Yaroslav Zhelesniak, a People's Deputy from the Holos party.
The Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy of the Verkhovna Rada, Danilo Getmanets, has already reacted to this news. The Deputy notes that he expects Pyshny's statement about unprecedented pressure on the regulator from NABU.
“Otherwise, everything that Getmanets almost a year has been saying about crimes committed by Pyshny, demanding his resignation, will turn out to be true as always. And certainly, I consider the question of the corruptionist's resignation closed. To disgrace the sole strong financial institution or to disgrace oneself—one must know how to do it,” Getmanets stated.
Earlier, the head of the parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, after NABU and SAP cases involving State-Owned JSC Sense Bank, demanded Pyshny's resignation.
19 August the government, after NABU and SAP cases, decided to suspend the head of the supervisory board of Sense Bank, Mykola Hadlyshenko, for six months and initiated the suspension of the chairman of the management board, Oleksiy Stupak.
Subsequently, the National Bank Committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking activity ruled that Mykola Hadlyshenko, head of the supervisory board of Sense Bank, did not meet the independence requirements under applicable law.
The NBU also opened administrative proceedings to assess the collective incapacity of the supervisory board.
What is known about the case?
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau announced a new special operation — “Forest Gump” — to uncover “high-level corruption.”
According to the investigation, the defendants took control of Sense Bank to use it for private interests. In particular — to pay the bail for a figure in the “Midas” operation (also “the Mindich case”) with money of criminal origin.
Law enforcement does not name the person for whom the bail was being posted. However, the disclosed details point to former energy minister and minister of justice German Galushchenko.
In February, the VAKS took Galushchenko into custody with the possibility of posting bail.
German Galushchenko is a figure in the large “Midas” operation (the Mindich case) exposing corruption in the energy sector. According to the investigation, businessman Timur Mindich had influence over Galushchenko, and the minister was involved in money laundering.
According to law enforcement, the members of 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 Hladyshchenko);
a former MP (referring to Maksym Mykytself).
The same day, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Iryna Mudra from her post as Deputy Head of the Office of the President. The relevant decree is dated 19 August.
25 August The High Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the prosecution's request for 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 ordered her to be kept in custody with an alternative bail of 20 million hryvnias.
8 October Mudra posted the full bail amount and was released from pre-trial detention.
2 September VAKS partially granted the prosecution's request and chose a bail for the head of the Sense Bank Oleksiy Stupak in the amount of 15 million hryvnias.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Голова НБУ Пишний написав заяву про відставку – джерело видання". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Delo.ua.