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Next session week the Verkhovna Rada may consider the dismissal of National Bank head Andrii Pyshnyi.
As Dilo reports, this was announced by people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
According to him, the agenda for the next plenary week (9–13 November) includes consideration of a resolution on Pyshnyi’s dismissal.
Photo: Yaroslav Zheleznyak
At the same time, Zheleznyak noted that a submission for resignation has not yet been registered with the Rada. The parliament’s website also lacks a resolution on the dismissal of the NBU head. The regulator itself has not commented on whether the dismissal issue is being considered.
According to him, none of his sources confirm that Pyshnyi himself wrote a resignation letter. In addition, the MP said that during a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky last week the regulator’s head refused to submit a letter.
Zheleznyak emphasized that the president has the ability to initiate the dismissal himself, adding that the Verkhovna Rada’s temporary investigative commission (TIC) has already handed over collected materials to law enforcement agencies and the President’s Office. The MP also drew attention to the fact that personnel issues are usually placed first on a plenary day, whereas the item regarding the NBU head was entered last for Thursday, 12 November.
“This item is 25-th on Thursday, 12 November. The last one on the last page. Which demonstrates the uncertainty of the matter at the moment,” Zheleznyak states.
Note that according to Article 18 of the Law of Ukraine “On the National Bank of Ukraine,” the head of the NBU is dismissed from office by the Verkhovna Rada upon the submission of the President of Ukraine.
Who will lead the NBU instead of Pyshnyi
Dilo’s interlocutor names his first deputy Serhii Nikolaychuk as the most likely candidate to replace Pyshnyi. Other possible candidates mentioned include Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko and NBU Council member Vasyl Horbal.
At the same time, Marchenko reportedly refused to head the National Bank.
Searches at Pyshnyi’s
20 October the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office carried out searches at the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Andrii Pyshnyi’s premises.
Details of the searches were not disclosed; NABU only reported that no one was detained and no suspicions were announced.
Pyshnyi himself said that the NABU searches do not concern either the activities of the National Bank or his work.
The NABU searches are related to the KarpatNefteKhim plant and the nationalized Sens Bank, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Holos faction reported on his Telegram channel.
Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danylo Hetmantsev has already reacted to this news. The MP noted that he expects a statement from National Bank head Pyshnyi about unprecedented pressure on the regulator from NABU.
“Otherwise it will turn out that everything Hetmantsev has been saying for almost a year about crimes committed by Pyshnyi, demanding his resignation, turned out, as always, to be true. Well, and, of course, I consider the question of the resignation of a corrupt official closed. One must know how to disgrace almost the only strong financial institution and disgrace oneself,” Hetmantsev stated.
Earlier the head of the parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy demanded Pyshnyi’s resignation after the NABU and SAP case regarding the state JSC Sens Bank.
19 August following the NABU and SAP case, the government decided to suspend the chairman of the supervisory board of JSC Sens Bank Mykola Hladyshenko from his duties for six months and initiated the suspension of CEO Oleksii Stupak.
After that, the NBU’s Committee on Oversight and Regulation of Banking Activity decided that the chairman of the supervisory board of Sens Bank, Mykola Hladyshenko, did not meet the statutory requirements regarding independence.
The NBU 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 — “Forrest Gump” — to expose “high-level corruption.”
According to the investigation, the suspects took control of the state Sens Bank to use it for private interests. In particular — to pay bail for a suspect in the “Midas operation” (also the “Timur Mindich case”) with money of “criminal origin.”
Law enforcement agencies do not name the person for whom bail was being collected. However, the details voiced point to former Minister of Energy and Justice Herman Halushchenko.
In February the High Anti-Corruption Court placed Halushchenko in custody with the possibility of posting bail.
Herman Halushchenko is a suspect in the large-scale “Midas” operation (also the “Mindich case”) uncovering corruption in the energy sector. According to investigators, businessman Timur Mindich had influence over Halushchenko, and the minister himself was involved in money laundering.
According to law enforcement, the criminal group included:
the deputy head of the President’s Office (referring to Iryna Mudra);
the CEO and the chairman of the supervisory board of the state Sens Bank (referring to Oleksii Stupak and Mykola Hladyshenko);
a former people's deputy (referring to Maksym Mykyta).
That same day President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Iryna Mudra from the position of deputy head of the President’s Office. The relevant decree is dated 19 August.
25 August the High Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the prosecution’s motion regarding a preventive measure for former deputy head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudra, who is also a suspect in this case. The court ordered her to be held in custody with an alternative bail of 20 million UAH.
8 October Mudra posted the full amount of bail and was released from pretrial detention.
2 September the High Anti-Corruption Court partially granted the prosecution’s motion and chose a preventive measure for Sens Bank CEO Oleksii Stupak in the form of bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnias.
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