The appointment of Iryna Venediktova as the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein has a rather conditional relationship to the diplomatic service as such. According to our sources, the main task of Venediktova in Switzerland is to maintain informal contacts in the banking sector, in order to carry out financial schemes in the interests of Bankova.
Iryna Venediktova entered big politics in the team of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, having received the third number on the list of the "Servant of the People" party. In just a few years, she made a breakthrough career from a teacher of the Department of Civil and Legal Disciplines in Kharkiv to acting. director of the State Bureau of Investigation, became the first female Attorney General and eventually moved into the diplomatic service after being appointed ambassador to Switzerland.
The secret of the rapid rise of the "law teacher from Kharkiv" is explained by the functions that Iryna Venediktova performs for Volodymyr Zelenskyi's team - these are connections with foreign banks and the organization of money withdrawal schemes. Simply put, Venediktova specializes in money laundering on a global scale.
It is worth noting that Venediktova learned the basics of legalization of funds while studying international commercial arbitration, where she acquired her first skills "how to hide and withdraw money. The main ways and schemes". In the future, Iryna Venediktova, together with her brother Serhii Venediktov, served the interests of the Kharkiv elite . In particular, they consulted the structures of Arsen Avakov and his business partner Igor Kotvitskyi. Taking into account the volume of black money that had to be legalized for Avakov-Kotvitskyi, it can be said that the Venediktov family business received both good practice and a corresponding reputation in "narrow circles".
In Kharkiv, Iryna Venediktova is also known for her cooperation with the Kernes-Dobkin clan. The close connection between Kernes and Venediktova dates back to the times when Gennady Adolfovych lobbied for the appointment of Iryna Valentinivna's husband, Denys Kolesnyk, to various leadership positions in the internal affairs bodies and, later, in the national police bodies of the Kharkiv region (Department of Internal Security, Slobozhansk Department cyber police).
Iryna Venediktova established good contacts with Oleg Tatarov and Andrii Portnov thanks to her work with ex-deputy from the Party of Regions Mykhailo Dobkin. Actually, Portnov recommended Vedeniktov to Andrii Bohdan.
For Servants of the People, Iryna Venediktova was from the very beginning a person who had access to Western banks, the ability to bypass financial monitoring and withdraw significant sums abroad. A similar function, working with offshores, relied on another member of the green team, Ivan Bakanov, which became widely known thanks to the Pandora Papers .
According to our sources, Ivan Bakanov still has access to the accounts he helped open abroad. , his long-time friend and business partner, Serhiy Shefir, currently in charge The functionality of Irina Venekdiktova is slightly different, related to the banking system.
In this context, it is worth mentioning the diplomatic scandal with the detention in Switzerland of a citizen of Ukraine with diplomatic status, during an attempt to conduct financial transactions on the deposit accounts of the former Credit Suisse (now under the control of UBS Group AG), which are subject to financial monitoring by the US Treasury. The detainee was handed over to authorized representatives of the US Embassy, and the scandal was hushed up.
Actually, everything falls into place, if we consider that this kind of decoration is the main work of Irina Venediktova with the status of Ambassador.
There are no other "achievements" of Venediktova in the diplomatic field: on the eve of the Peace Summit, Ukraine's diplomatic failure occurred in the Upper House of the Swiss Parliament, when at the beginning of June the allocation of $5.58 billion in aid to Ukraine, which was planned to be transferred to restore the destroyed infrastructure, was rejected.
The work on the preparation of the Peace Summit itself was also failed, where only 3 of the originally planned 10 theses of Volodymyr Zelenskyi's "peace formula" were voiced, and there were no representatives of China.
Such carelessness of Iryna Venediktova in the status of Ambassador caused a wide resonance in the Verkhovna Rada and a discussion about the need for her recall .
At the same time, Iryna Venediktova remains in the diplomatic service despite a series of failures and obvious incompetence. Probably, Venediktova fully copes with her main task of legalizing funds for Bankova.
