According to our sources at the National Bank, a "black market for card pensions" has been formed in Ukraine due to payments to citizens of retirement age who are in temporarily occupied territories or have left for the Russian Federation.
We are talking about card accounts opened in PrivatBank before the full-scale invasion, which continue to receive pension payments. It is impossible to withdraw funds from these cards without a financial phone number, as Ukrainian mobile operators do not work in the temporarily occupied territories.
According to the latest data, there are about one million such pension cards, and some of them remain active. It is these active pension cards that have formed a "black market", where bank employees sell bank account data of pensioners with TOT to fraudsters, for whom withdrawing funds from such an account is not a problem.
According to the information of our sources, the state loses 3-4 billion hryvnias every month on devices with card accounts of pensioners at TOT.
