Hladyshenko Mykola Ihorovych

Named 40 days before appointment

Mykola Hladyshenko is the chairman of the supervisory board of Sense Bank, and concurrently a board member of Ukrfinzhytlo. He joined the bank's supervisory board as an "independent" member in the composition appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers on June 18, 2025. Ukrainska Pravda published transcripts of the "Mindich tapes": in a conversation dated May 9, 2025, Midas case figure Oleksandr Tsukerman and the bank's overseer Vasyl Vesely discussed the desired composition of the supervisory board — and among the named surnames was Hladyshenko. Exactly 40 days later, the Cabinet of Ministers appointed these people.

The NBU initiated a review

The NBU initiated a review of Hladyshenko's compliance with the criteria for independence as chairman of the supervisory board. Before the appointment, the regulator requested additional assurances of independence from him — and not all at the NBU agreed with his candidacy.

Suspension for two months due to "resonance"

On May 6, 2026, the day after the parliamentary temporary investigative commission meeting, Hladyshenko submitted a statement of self-suspension — "for the period necessary to clarify all circumstances within the scope of negative information about the bank disseminated in the media." The execution of the chairman's powers was entrusted to the Polish board member Piotr Nowak.