The head of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Philip Pronin, has found himself at the center of a scandal over a series of allegations related to his possible inaction in the area of combating money laundering, participation in potential corruption schemes, and family ties to companies associated with sanctioned oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
Information about this appeared after a publication on social networks by journalistic investigators and experts, who point to a number of risk factors in the official's activities.
Silence at the FATF meeting in Paris
The FATF, an international group to combat money laundering, warned last year about threats related to Russian sanctions evasion schemes, financing of military programs and shadow transactions.
Ukraine has traditionally been an active participant in the process of countering Russian financial flows and was the initiator of the suspension of the Russian Federation from FATF.
However, during the plenary session in October 2024, the issue of Russian schemes was actually not brought up for discussion.
Philip Pronin was present at the meeting in person, but the results of Ukrainian participation were “zero,” the authors of the publications claim. In their opinion, Ukraine did not insist on including topics directly related to the financing of the Russian military machine on the agenda.
Suspicions of ties to Dmytro Firtash's companies
The family ties of the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service were also in the spotlight.
According to investigators, Pronin's wife became a co-owner of Tesoro Management in 2024. Its director is Anna Sologub, who for years was a member of the audit committee of Rivneazot, a company owned by Dmytro Firtash's Group DF structure.
At the same time, Pronin's declarations do not contain any mention of his wife's business assets, which also raises questions.
Additional attention from experts has been drawn to other companies linked to Firtash's family and inner circle, including firms in Ukraine and real estate in France owned by the oligarch's daughter.
Separately, Pronin is accused of possible involvement in the embezzlement of budget funds during the period when he headed the Poltava OVA.
In particular, this concerns the construction of fortifications, on which, according to journalistic investigations, more than 200 million hryvnias were lost.
The key participant in the work was Enki Construction LLC, which received 16 contracts worth about 372 million hryvnias. Experts point to inflated estimates, fictitious deliveries, and the company's control by individual officials from the Pronin era.
The official does not appear as a suspect in these proceedings, but his name is mentioned in connection with the organization of work, management, and responsibility for the implementation of budget programs.
Some experts also claim that under Pronin's leadership, the State Financial Monitoring Service is allegedly responding inappropriately to money laundering schemes, the operation of illegal payment services, online casinos, and other platforms that can be used to circumvent sanctions or finance pro-Russian structures.
The service did not publicly comment on these allegations.
After the information appeared in open sources, there are calls for an inspection of Pronin's activities by government bodies and a possible audit of the work of the State Financial Monitoring Service during his leadership.
