Markarova Oksana Serhiyivna

Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, former Minister of Finance with a Podil house priced ten times below market value

Financier (Kharkiv University), MBA (Vanderbilt University, USA). Since 2014 — at the Ministry of Finance; First Deputy Minister (2016–2018), Acting Minister of Finance (2018–2019), Minister of Finance (2019–2020). Since 2021 — Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA. Married to banker and entrepreneur Danylo Volynets, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Akordbank. Four children and a grandson.

“Aktiv-bank,” Podil house ten times cheaper than market and husband with bank under question

According to Scheme’s data, Markarova and her husband Volynets might have been involved in the withdrawal ahead of bankruptcy from "Aktiv-bank", owned by the couple, to their real estate company — a historic house on Borys Hlib Street in Podil at a price ten times below market value. No criminal proceedings or suspicions regarding Markarova personally have been publicly initiated; the Scheme’s investigation has received no official law enforcement response. As ambassador to the USA, she earned a reputation as one of the most effective Ukrainian diplomats — a key architect of military aid packages from Congress following the start of the full-scale invasion.