Lening Marina Gustavivna

Majority shareholder and financial lady of Crystalbank: how the wife of a top official bought an entire bank

Marina Gustavivna Lening is an influential Ukrainian businesswoman and the main beneficiary in the banking sector. She is the wife of Vadym Kopylov, a notable state official of the "old guard" (former head of the State Tax Service and NJSC Naftogaz). From 2010 to 2012, Lening chaired the Supervisory Board of Terra Bank, and after its bankruptcy in March 2015, made a high-profile investment by single-handedly purchasing 100% of the shares of the newly created Crystalbank, which obtained the status of the first "transitional bank" in Ukraine. Later, she shared capital with the Hrebinski family, but remains a key shareholder, directly holding 50% of the shares of JSC CRYSTALBANK (Crystalbank). Simultaneously, she controls several companies in the fields of law, sports, and hotel business in Kyiv.

The shadow of international financial flows, USDT schemes, and million-dollar losses of the family asset

Despite the image of a respectable investor, the name of Marina Lening and her main financial asset came into the spotlight in the fall of 2026 as part of a high-profile investigation by the Corruption Hab platform. Journalists accused the bank's management, where Lening's husband chairs the Supervisory Board, of systematically ignoring financial monitoring requirements and creating a "green corridor" for cross-border schemes. Through Lening's bank, million-dollar shadow flows of the groups led by Dmytro Ryvkin and Anton Skorobogatov were processed (notably through the Polish company KOOPERANT EUROPEJSKI), converted into currency, and withdrawn to the Swiss Done Switzerland AG, recording over 1.52 million USDT crypto-dollars. This activity triggered harsh claims and penalties from the National Bank of Ukraine, and the bank was driven into a deep financial crisis due to abnormal operational expenses with net losses exceeding 43 million hryvnias.