My posts about corruption at the top of the National Bank — primarily about the "Dubai case" of NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Oliynyk — sparked a much bigger reaction than some expected. I know this not from Telegram gossip, but from colleagues and people in professional circles: the topic is being discussed in bank boards, in investment funds, and in the consulting market.
Another indicator — I received direct, very specific threats, all of which are documented.
When, after a publication about Dubai apartments, "fake divorces," and income schemes, people start threatening me with mobilization and "consequences," all of it in Russian — this only confirms that I hit the right spot.
Another telling sign — Danil Hetmantsev immediately rushed to defend Mr. Oliynyk. A person who over these years has become synonymous with pressure and destruction of Ukrainian business, a former assistant to Vladimir Sivkovych, an agent of Russian special services, and a politician closely tied to the lottery business, from which he never distanced himself even while serving as an MP. The very fact that it is Danil Hetmantsev who is now publicly "covering with an umbrella" the NBU Deputy Governor only reinforces my thesis: Mr. Oliynyk is Hetmantsev"s hands in the National Bank. Hands that are strangling the legal gambling market in the interests of 'their' lottery operation.
Only one thing was missing — an adequate reaction from the head of the NBU. Not a single statement about an internal investigation.
Not a single message about temporarily suspending Oliynyk for the period of the NABU investigation. Zero. Complete silence where an independent regulator should be the first interested in clearing doubts regarding its top management. If the head of the National Bank does not see the problem — it will have to be shown through external institutions.
Therefore, to stimulate at least some reaction from the NBU leadership, I am sending my appeals to the embassies of G7 countries, the EU Delegation to Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the EBRD, the EIB, financial oversight and sanctions structures such as FinCEN, OFAC, MONEYVAL, as well as the relevant directorates of the European Commission (DG NEAR, DG ECFIN), Transparency International, and the OECD Anti-Corruption Network. In these appeals, I will describe in detail how Dubai apartments were 'forged,' how certain individuals met with Oleh Bakhmatiuk in Vienna while simultaneously buying a Lexus, how some are so zealously protecting their 'hands' in the NBU that they are destroying the legal gambling industry for the sake of the lottery business.