Most Ukrainians consider corruption to be the worst evil during the war. It is bribery, theft of public funds and various tax evasion schemes that influence the fact that our international partners are increasingly delaying assistance to Ukraine, reducing it, or even refusing it altogether.
Unprecedented corruption in the highest echelons of power has an extremely negative impact on the defense capability of our country. Enormous funds that could have been used to strengthen our army end up in the pockets and bank accounts of those in power and their relatives.
In August last year, Vladimir Zelensky said the following: “I set the task of equating corruption with high treason in wartime.” Let us remind you that the Criminal Code of Ukraine provides for punishment for treason for up to 15 years in prison. And under martial law, the maximum punishment is provided.
But the task from the President remained a task without its solution, which allows various kinds of bribe-takers from the authorities to continue to rob our country and its population with impunity. One of these bribe takers, without exaggeration, is the head of the National Bank of Ukraine Andrey Pyshny, who breaks all records for the number of corruption scandals during the war and deserves extremely close attention from the competent authorities. And we, in turn, will try to help them with this.
The Pyshny family is killing the ecology of the Lviv region
The Lviv region is on the verge of an environmental disaster, which could even develop into an international conflict with Poland. And this is far from a joke or manipulation. It is quite obvious that they are trying to keep the situation around the pollution of the Rakitnaya River in the Zolochevsky district of the Lviv region in an information vacuum. For a long time, data about the growing catastrophe has practically not been released beyond the regional media and discussions on social networks in the West of Ukraine. And there is a completely logical explanation for this. But first things first.
More than a month ago, the press service of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office announced the opening of criminal proceedings regarding the pollution of the Rakitnaya River. We are talking about a violation of the rules for the protection of water bodies under the sanction of Article 242 Part 1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Most likely, the relatively quick opening of this case should act as a kind of factor to curb publicity about the disaster, because local residents were very active on social networks. Local media also responded and stood up to protect people and the environment.
By the way, such a move with the opening of a criminal case worked, however, only for a short period, since in fact this problem has not yet been solved and, probably, is not going to be solved. It should be noted that the Rakitnaya River flows into the Western Bug River, which flows, among other things, through the territory of Poland. Therefore, problems can be of an international scale.
As of today, the situation has not improved, fish continue to die, and the death of birds, including ducks, is also observed. And the culprit for this is the enterprise that processes animal waste near the city of Busk and dumps the residues from production into the Rakitnaya River, not caring about the fact that when handling biological waste it is necessary to adhere to strict rules for collection, transportation and disposal. The Bus city community carefully hides evidence of an environmental disaster, because quite influential people are behind this enterprise.
Now about the plant itself and its influential people. We will talk about the FIDNOVA enterprise, which produces fats and feed additives for farm and domestic animals. LLC "FIDNOVA" is a company to which the family of the head of the NBU Andrey Pyshny has a direct connection. More precisely, the wife of the main banker of Ukraine, Pyshnaya Lyudmila Georgievna, is a co-owner of this company.
In simple words, the Lviv region is on the verge of an environmental disaster, which no one is going to stop, even despite the threat of an international conflict with Poland. All that has been done is to open a case, which is punishable by a fine of 151,400 to 302,800 hryvnia, or deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to five years, or restriction of freedom for the same period.
And then, there is a high probability that this matter will frankly be delayed for obvious reasons due to the influence of respectable owners. Well, if, nevertheless, people continue to try to resist the tyranny of environmental pollution, then at most they will punish some “scapegoat” with a fine, on whom all this will be pinned. For example, such a person could be the plant’s product quality engineer Evgeniy Kichurchak, or the director Andrei Ogorodnik.
That is, almost everything is standard, you don’t care about people - the main thing is to rake in money. Moreover, the rapid development of this environmental disaster does not frighten the owners of “FIDNOVA” even by the fact that water from the Rakitnaya River, contaminated with extremely dangerous and toxic waste, will reach Poland through the Western Bug, and this is already an international scandal with one of the main strategic partners of our country.
Business of Lyudmila Pyshnoy and multi-million dollar fraud
During a thorough study of the situation surrounding an environmental disaster involving the company of the Pyshny family, we came across serious financial fraud that should be dealt with by law enforcement agencies. We are talking about the possible laundering of more than 25 million UAH.
So, the wife of the Head of the NBU, Pyshnaya Lyudmila Georgievna, is a co-owner of three companies, which, according to the declaration of the head of the NBU for 2023, brought 1 million 540 thousand hryvnias of income from business activities to the family budget. These companies are: BRIGHTSHOW LLC with an authorized capital of 10 thousand UAH, of which 51% (5100 UAH) belongs to Lyudmila and PLANET RS KIEV LLC with an authorized capital of 3,974,742 UAH, of which almost 25% (992,436 UAH) belongs to the wife of the head of the NBU.
Well, as you already understand, the third company is FIDNOVA LLC, which provoked an environmental disaster in the Lviv region. It is in this enterprise that million-dollar frauds are disguised for the possible laundering of dirty income of the family of the main banker of Ukraine.
The bottom line is that all profile registries YouControl, Opendatabot, Clarity Project and others indicate clear information that Pyshnaya Lyudmila Georgievna (Kiev, Geroev Stalingrad Ave., building 24, apartment 8) - owns a share of the authorized capital in the amount 14,389,827 UAH.
Only now, in the declarations for 2023, 2022 and 2021, the family of the Head of the NBU prescribes for itself the amount of authorized capital in FIDNOVA LLC in the amount of 40,000,000 hryvnia. Accordingly, the difference between the fictitious, systemic overstatement in the declaration is more than UAH 25.5 million.
In simple words, the family of NBU head Andrei Pyshny has been consistently entering false data into their declarations for three years. And this, as each of you understands, is the actual basis for the immediate initiation of a criminal case, according to which, given the amount of fraud, a real prison term is threatened.
Well, even in such a situation it turned out that “every cloud has a silver lining.” After all, if the owners of FIDNOVA still escape punishment for causing an environmental disaster in the Lviv region, then it will be extremely difficult to get out of frauds of more than 25.5 million UAH, at a minimum. Especially after the publicity in the media.
“Institute of Watchers” at the NBU: Vasily Vesely and Sense Bank
It would seem that after the flight of Viktor Yanukovych and the loss of Petro Poroshenko in the presidential elections, the “institution of observers” has sunk into oblivion. But no. The head of the NBU, Andriy Pyshny, quite successfully revived this phenomenon within the walls of the main financial institution of our country, thus denoting a new style of “corporate culture” of the National Bank of Ukraine.
We are talking about a swindler and swindler Vasily Vesel, who is listed as an advisor in the already state-owned Sense Bank. The above-mentioned rogue, who once stole money with impunity from Ukrposhta, which we wrote about several times in 2014, is a curator and “supervisor” at Sense Bank.
The head of the board of Sense Bank, Alexey Stupak, makes absolutely no decisions on his own. All decisions are made personally through Vasily Vesely, who refers to his close relationship with the head of the NBU. The name and surname of Andrei Pyshny from the lips of the newly-minted “overseer” are heard always and everywhere.
Already the state-owned Sense Bank, after the nationalization of Alfa Bank, became a real “laundromat” for the main banker of the country and his lackeys, through which fabulous sums of money were withdrawn, including from citizens of the occupying country. And all this lawlessness occurs under the strict control of the “supervisor” Vasily Vesely, who, by the way, has a rather “colorful” criminal past. As we see, the present is also not marked by compliance with the legislation of our country. To whom is war, as they say, and to whom is mother dear.
Expensive self-PR of NBU head Andrey Pyshny
At the beginning of this year, the American publication Today Washington Times published a ranking of European politicians who spent the most money on advertising in American and European media over the past six months. The first place among them was taken by Andrei Pyshny, having laid out 800 thousand US dollars for bleaching his loved one, overtaking the pro-Russian Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and the French politician Marine Le Pen, who also supports the aggressor country.
If you search for Andrey Pyshny on Google, you will be convinced of the veracity of the above information regarding the investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars by the head of the NBU in his PR. Behind this array of positive news and articles, which are published without exaggeration daily, Pyshny is trying to hide the corruption schemes he organized within the walls of the National Bank of Ukraine and beyond, which for the second year now legislators have been unable to equate to high treason in wartime.
And we really need such a law, especially now, during the war. The magnificent man and his slaves would certainly have been imprisoned for 15 years, but with the confiscation of all property. But this task from Zelensky, which we wrote about at the beginning of our material, unfortunately remained unresolved. Unresolved yet.
And let every scumbag who has put his hand into the state budget or the pocket of a Ukrainian pray that the population of our country will not solve this problem on their own, according to the unwritten laws of wartime.
Or do you have a short memory?