A new type of fraud is spreading rapidly in Ukraine, even affecting officially registered individual entrepreneurs. People, unaware of the danger, sell their business data for pennies, becoming part of large-scale financial crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National Bank of Ukraine has already raised the alarm – drops are used not only for money laundering, but also in such criminal schemes as drug trafficking, arms supply, and terrorist financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NBU Chairman Andriy Pyshny noted: “We propose to analyze the activities of individual entrepreneurs before their closure: check turnover and tax payments, and only then allow the entrepreneur to close.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The modern process of closing individual entrepreneurs has become straightforward, which, although convenient for conscientious business people, creates ideal conditions for fraudsters. They can open numerous fictitious businesses, carry out dubious financial transactions through them, and then “disappear”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A striking example is the case of the Ukrainian blogger and owner of the “ODA” brand, Ksyusha Maneken. More than 6.2 million hryvnias disappeared from her accounts, which were accessed by fake individual entrepreneurs who sold their data in Telegram groups for 5 thousand hryvnias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of these droppers said: “I just saw an ad, opened an individual entrepreneur, tied it to their number – I received 5 thousand, and that’s it\u2026 I didn’t know that hundreds of thousands of hryvnias were passed through me.” Now the man can be fined not for 5 thousand, but by law, be held criminally liable, because such a “service” is considered complicity in a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pyshny added that the number of detected drop cards remains consistently high, with no tendency to decrease. “We do not see an increase, but we do not observe a decrease either. This is a systemic problem,” the NBU chairman emphasized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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