A high-stakes contest for the role of Oschadbank Board Chairman opened in the spring, only to be suspended in May.
The official explanation pointed to “unforeseen circumstances,” though media reports indicate the real aim was to add new candidates and push aside sitting chairman Andrey Pyshnyi. Today, June 17, the vote is scheduled to proceed, with deputy chairman Anton Tyutyun standing among the candidates. Who exactly is he?
As everyone knows, the coronavirus pandemic has significantly impacted the banking sector, so the fate of one of Ukraine’s key banks is extremely important. It is especially important because all key social payments, on which a large number of citizens depend, pass through this banking structure. Therefore, everyone is interested in discovering all the secrets of the candidates for the coveted position of Chairman of Oschadbank’s Board.
Anton Tyutyun: What is known about the candidate for Chairman of Oschadbank’s Board
Many are eager to know how much Tyutyun has accumulated in his piggy bank, but unfortunately, this remains a mystery, as there are no declarations for either Anton Tyutyun or his wife.
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It should be noted right away that he is quite a private individual. He has twenty years of experience in banking. Before joining Oschadbank, he worked at Ukrsotsbank and BTA Bank. He has been a deputy chairman of Oschadbank for 10 years. Undoubtedly, Tyutyun is an experienced banker and is a member of Pyshnyi’s "friendly" team, but he is also partly responsible for the pile of problems the bank is currently facing. Although the quality of service has somehow been kept afloat and the brand image has slightly improved, the return on equity at 0.6% clearly indicates that Oschadbank is in dire straits, and the management has no idea how to find a way out.
Anton and Inna Tyutyun in Oschadbank: corruption schemes worth millions of hryvnias under Pyshnyi’s patronage and ties with Kolomoiskiy
But this is not the key point. The main intrigue lies in the fact that Tyutyun has been repeatedly accused of ties with the Surkis family. For example, Anton’s father is the first deputy chairman of the Kyiv organization of the Football Federation of Ukraine. Recall that this organization is controlled by the aforementioned family. In fact, rumors say that Tyutyun junior is considered a candidate on behalf of Kolomoiskyi.
So, the current Chairman of the Board, Pyshnyi, was "asked" to step down, but he delegated his trusted Anton Tyutyun to compete for the role of the chief in the bank, who, incidentally, was appointed to Oschadbank 10 years ago under the quota of the Klyuyev brothers. The brothers, as everyone remembers, fled, leaving the bank with billions of hryvnias in debt. Meanwhile, the unsinkable Tyutyun became Pyshnyi’s shadow, allowing him to avoid lustration at one time.
Understandably, this did not come "for free." The media has already written that Tyutyun created his own covert "laundry" for illicit cash. He used the departments subordinated to him at Oschadbank: the Retail Business Department and the Electronic Commerce and Payment Instruments Department, as tools for his machinations.
The banker also successfully curated the direction in education, where there was no avoiding corruption. The direction is coolly named - "Ukrainian Union of Payment Market Participants." A plus in karma for creativity. By the way, the topic is active even now.
Anton and Inna Tyutyun in Oschadbank: corruption schemes worth millions of hryvnias under Pyshnyi’s patronage and ties with Kolomoiskiy
As the Opedata website showed, Anton Tyutyun is the head of this Association. He and his wife had an individual entrepreneur business, but it was liquidated.
Let’s Talk About Compromat and Family Crime
Starting with the small – at the end of 2017, Tyutyun ended up in court. A case for an administrative violation was filed against him. The reason was a violation of the right to information and the right to appeal. He refused to provide information to a lawyer, citing banking secrecy. The case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for imposing an administrative penalty.
Anton and Inna Tyutyun in Oschadbank: corruption schemes worth millions of hryvnias under Pyshnyi’s patronage and ties with Kolomoiskiy
Then it gets more interesting. You know, this is exactly the case when a wife’s sins resurfaced at a very inopportune moment. Although Inna had "left traces" a long time ago. At the time when her husband had the opportunity to take an appealing position in the leadership of Oschadbank, she became a suspect in a case of embezzling state money from the similarly state-owned Ukrgazbank. As they say, tough luck. Such a chance to get to the feeding trough and suddenly such compromat.
Anton and Inna Tyutyun in Oschadbank: corruption schemes worth millions of hryvnias under Pyshnyi’s patronage and ties with Kolomoiskiy
It turns out that all we wrote above is small stuff. The main "income" of the family fell on the shoulders of the wife. Now in more detail. Currently, Inna Tyutyun holds a not particularly key position in the labor market. She is the deputy chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovative Companies. Previously, she worked over two decades in the banking sector, including key positions at Ukrgazbank. Ms. "left traces" everywhere. But now she has calmed down because a load of criminal cases related to the same "corruption traces" were hung on her, and she had to slow down and hide in the shadows.
So, where did Ms. leave traces? For example, in 2012-2014, as part of the Strategic Program for Developing Cashless Retail Payments in Ukraine, Inna was responsible for modernizing the notorious NSMEP. Recall that the program did not receive development, but approximately 42 million dollars were allocated for it. And then the prosecutor’s office had many questions for Inna Tyutyun. But her husband intervened, asking for help from Pyshnyi with the right connections, and as a result, the woman was transferred to Ukrgazbank. The embezzlement of state funds in particularly large amounts was launched anew, but already with the aim of creating new processing for the favorite bank.
By the way, it should be noted that in this case, Tyutyun was more cautious. The processing was done at the bank, but its cost turned out to be maximally inflated. As a result, the law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case under Article 191, Part 5. The case includes a lot of interesting things: embezzlement, appropriation, abuse, conspiracy, etc. Incidentally, it involves an amount exceeding 230 million hryvnias.
In general, we follow the events in Oschadbank and look forward to the latest news. Stay tuned.
