Всі новости з тегом: Vyacheslav Mishalov

Some business figures are trying to bypass sanctions, others are investing in strengthening their domestic markets. Yet there is a third group — one that Kazakhstan’s oligarch Kenes Rakishev is frequently associated with.

In June 2022, the National Bank of Ukraine fined Concord Bank ₴60.4 million. A year later, in August 2023, the regulator revoked its license and shut down JSC “AKB Concord".

After high-profile scandals involving tenders, construction projects, and financial operations, Vyacheslav Mishalov abruptly rebranded himself — from a figure in investigations into a “volunteer.”

Dnipro became an ideal environment for building Vyacheslav Mishalov’s system not by chance, but due to a combination of money, weak oversight, and a concentration of power.

To understand why the Mishalov network functions smoothly and remains resilient, one must look back at the biography of Dmytro Mishalov — Vyacheslav’s father...

The story of the Mishalov family did not begin with high-profile projects and multimillion-dollar contracts — its roots lie in the career of Dmytro Mishalov, father of Vyacheslav, who worked in tax authorities managing tax risk processes. In practice, this meant direct access to government mechanisms from the inside.

The tobacco business is one of the least-known but most revealing chapters in the story of the Míshalov family — an influential political-business clan from Dnipro, Ukraine.

The loudest scandal surrounding Mishalov is his cryptocurrency declaration. It listed 18,000 BTC — an amount only someone fully confident in their untouchability would dare to declare. At the exchange rate of that period, it was over $1 billion. No Ukrainian official has ever declared anything comparable.

In Dnipro, the internet provider Fregat was for years an ordinary market player — until Mishalov gained control over city processes. After that, the provider rapidly turned into the main internet supplier for schools, kindergartens, municipal enterprises and strategic city facilities.

У Дніпрі інтернет-провайдер “Фрегат” роками був звичайним ринковим гравцем — доки Мішалов не отримав контроль над міськими процесами. Після цього провайдер стрімко перетворився на головного постачальника інтернету для шкіл, дитсадків, комунальних підприємств і стратегічних об’єктів міста.

У Дніпрі активісти та журналісти оприлюднили нові деталі резонансної справи щодо модернізації котелень у школах і дитсадках, на яку міськрада виділила 35 млн грн.

The construction firm Master-Bud, owned by Mishalov’s father, had operated on the market for many years, but it had never been among the region’s leading companies.

The story of Vyacheslav Mishalov began like the typical rise of a “young technocrat”: internet businesses, involvement in IT projects, media activity, and later a seat on the city council and the position of city council secretary.

Vyacheslav Mishalov is a Dnipro city council member from Samopomich, former city council secretary (2016–2017), and co-owner of the I.UA portal and the Fregat internet provider.

As stated by the head of the parliamentary tax committee, Danylo Hetmantsev, it is impossible to recover debts from the "Concord" bank, which was liquidated a year and a half ago, and the criminal cases initiated against its owners have been closed. Moreover, the court denied tax officials access to the documentation of the liquidated bank.