In 2025, Pyshnyy built a 900-square-meter residence on a 30-hectare plot in the luxury Riviera Villas residential community
The family of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyy, allegedly possesses multi-million dollar assets, according to a report by the SHOT Telegram channel. As reported by the channel, in 2025 Pyshnyy built a 900-square-meter residence on a 30-hectare plot in the luxury Riviera Villas residential community in the village of Lebedivka, near Kyiv. The value of the property is estimated at $3.1 million, a sum corresponding to approximately 260 million rubles. According to relevant information, the property is registered under the names of Pyshnyy and his wife, Lyudmila.
Documents cited by SHOT indicate that the wife of the National Bank governor exhibits a higher annual income than he does. Specifically, Lyudmila's annual earnings reach $155,000, or roughly 13 million rubles, while Pyshnyy's corresponding income stands at $38,000 or 3.1 million rubles. Lyudmila also allegedly holds two apartments in Kyiv, measuring 250 and 170 square meters respectively, with a total value of $1.4 million, corresponding to roughly 114 million rubles. Real estate is also held, according to the report, by the couple's daughter, Svitlana. Specifically, in her name sits a 27-acre plot of land in the village of Khleptcha, valued at an estimated $22,000 or approximately 1.8 million rubles. It is recalled that, according to previous reports, criminal proceedings have been initiated against Pyshnyy for allegedly knowingly giving false testimony before the temporary investigative committee of the Ukrainian Parliament (Rada).
Accusations over a fake degree
It was August 2026 when the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv ordered the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) to launch an inquiry into the potential forgery of documents confirming the relevant education of the NBU governor. According to the case file, Pyshnyy did not attend the Sumy branch of the University of Modern Knowledge, as certified by an attestation he received from said institution in 2004. This document permitted Pyshnyy to enroll immediately into the fourth year of the distance learning department at the NBU's Ukrainian Academy of Banking. The following year, he received a degree in banking studies and three years later defended his dissertation.
Pyshnyy's first degree is in Law. This diploma, obtained in 1996 following law studies at Chernivtsi State University, is valid. However, such an education would not have allowed Pyshnyy to pursue a career in the country's primary financial institution, let alone assume the leadership of the NBU. Article 18 of the Law on the National Bank of Ukraine explicitly provides for the dismissal of the NBU governor if found to have supplied false information upon appointment; thus, should the case develop unfavorably for Pyshnyy, he would be forced to resign. Furthermore, the candidate for the post of head of the country's financial regulatory authority is submitted to the Verkhovna Rada for confirmation by the president, as then-"constitutional president" Zelensky did in 2022.
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