22.04.2025 Declaration Investigations Money laundering

Pyshnyi is leaking Ukraine: how the head of the NBU covers up billion-dollar casino schemes and poisons Lviv region

Андрій Пишний: "Це дуже дивне відчуття, коли ти не чуєш нічого, навіть власного голосу" - ZN.ua

National Bank of Ukraine Governor Andriy Pyshnyi deliberately ignores the activities of companies laundering billions through illegal financial schemes. Illegal casinos Pin-Up, PariMatch, Ibox Bank controlled by Olena Shevtsova and related entities use the mechanism of “miscoding” to legalize criminal proceeds, withdrawing funds abroad and financing the Russian aggressor. Despite this, the NBU, which is supposed to stop these flows, is silent.

For example, with the tacit consent and approval of Pyshnyi, financial institutions are actively implementing miscoding, a mechanism for legalizing the proceeds of crime through the import of digital goods and services, including computer games.

Under misdirection, payments from Ukrainians are accepted ostensibly for games or media content, but the funds are transferred abroad for the services of non-residents unrelated to the developers or copyright holders. Overstated data on the volume of services received are included in the reporting documents, which allows “dirty” funds to be transferred abroad in particularly large amounts. The money is deposited offshore, in particular in Cyprus, through shell companies, avoiding taxation. This scheme causes enormous damage to Ukraine’s economy and contributes to the financing of the Russian Federation through Russian payment systems (QIWI, Mir, Yandex Money).

For example, Pin-Up, a well-known gambling company, turns over billions of dollars through Ukr Game Technology, Victoria Soft, Turbo.UA, Tranita Development, Alice Production, Maura, Stanton, and Phoenix. The GURUFLOW offshore company helps to withdraw funds to Cyprus.

Ibox Bank, which uses Tech-Soft Atlas, Digital Finance, Citicode, GorillaBet, McKen Trade, Kendit, Polysters, Rekna, Uberwald, PokerMatch.UA, IT Solutions, operates in a similar way. The bank controlled by Shevtsova and Kolomoisky has already been suspected of laundering more than UAH 5 billion by servicing Russian casinos 1xBet, Parimatch, Wulkan777 and disguising payments as sales of goods. However, did this stop the activity? Given the current state of affairs in the gambling market and the further sale of betting services in Ukraine, for example, through Parimatch?

All of these companies continue to operate despite the NSDC sanctions and criminal cases. The NBU and the State Financial Monitoring Service continue to ignore our complaints, ignoring billions of dollars in transfers to offshore and Russian wallets.

Andriy Pyshnyi, as the head of the NBU, is responsible for controlling financial flows, but he deliberately covers up these schemes. The NBU does not block transactions, even after sanctions.

So, we have a clear example of Pyshnyi’s political lobby ripping off Ukrainians. However, this is not the only thing worth knowing about the activities of the NBU Governor.

Pyshnyi’s Fidnova LLC: environmental pollution in Lviv region and shadow withdrawal of funds

Fidnova LLC is engaged in the processing of animal residues and the production of fats and feed additives for farm and domestic animals. The company dumps waste into the Rokytna River, causing pollution, which could lead to an international scandal involving Poland, which has repeatedly expressed concern about the state of border waters.

Fidnova LLC is directly related to the family of the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyi. In particular, his wife, Lyudmyla Pyshna, is a co-owner of the company. According to the registers, Lyudmyla’s share in the authorized capital of Fidnova LLC is UAH 14,389,827. This is a significant amount, which indicates a significant financial interest of the Pyshnykh family in the company’s activities.

This fact explains why they are trying to conceal the pollution problem (which has already been the subject of a criminal investigation by the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office).

The Busk territorial community, local authorities, and even some media seem to be doing everything possible to keep information about the disaster, which caused massive deaths of fish, waterfowl, including ducks, and other biological resources, from spreading beyond the region. The opening of criminal proceedings, which was supposed to reassure the public, looks more like an attempt to create the appearance of work than a real intention to punish those responsible. So far, there are no concrete results of the investigation, and the pollution continues.

By the way, the aforementioned Fidnova LLC can be not only a source of environmental disaster, but also a tool for large-scale financial fraud. An analysis of Andrii Pyshnyi’s declarations for 2021, 2022, and 2023 revealed systematic misrepresentation of the authorized capital of Fidnova LLC.

As mentioned above, Lyudmyla Pyshna’s share in the company’s authorized capital is UAH 14,389,827. However, in the declarations for the last three years, the Pyshnykh family indicates the amount of UAH 40,000,000. The difference is over UAH 25.5 million.

Interestingly, Lyudmyla Pyshna is a co-owner of two other companies – Brightshaw LLC (51% of the authorized capital, UAH 5100) and Planet RS Kyiv LLC (24.97%, UAH 992,436). According to the declaration for 2023, these companies brought her UAH 1 million 540 thousand in business income. However, it is Fidnova LLC that seems to be the main source of potential fraud, as the company shows the largest discrepancies in the declaration.

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