The National Bank of Ukraine has strengthened measures to combat fraud on the foreign exchange market. During the year, the regulator conducted 150 inspections in 17 licensed institutions, as a result of which it imposed fines in the total amount of 5.6 million hryvnias. About this reported Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev.
Despite the NBU’s statement about the decrease in the number of complaints, experts and activists are convinced that the problem remains relevant. Consumers continue to receive signals about systemic violations in the work of currency exchangers.
As noted in the NBU, the main threat to the currency market is illegal exchangers and Telegram channels. Despite signs of illegal activity and active advertising, law enforcement agencies have not yet taken effective measures to stop their work.
“You can see the number of appeals by the NBU to the police, and when you go outside, you will understand that these appeals are ignored, and the fraudsters continue to “work” without any hindrance, without paying the army a penny.”Hetmantsev noted.
The public expects more decisive steps from the National Police and the regulator to clean up the foreign exchange market from unscrupulous participants.
We will remind you that in February the NBU won a court case regarding the cancellation of the license of one of the country’s largest currency networks. The Supreme Court confirmed the legality of the National Bank’s decision to revoke the license of Finod LLC, which owns more than 400 exchangers in 16 regions of Ukraine.
