The Supervisory Board of the state Sens Bank was headed by Gerhard Bösch, the former chairman of the board of Privatbank, who managed the country's largest bank from June 2021 to November 2024. He replaced Mykola Gladishenko in this position.
Bösch is an Austrian citizen with many years of banking experience in Ukraine. Before heading Privatbank in 2021, he held the position of first deputy chairman of the board of Raiffeisen Bank Aval during 2010-2021. To the supervisory board The meaning of the bank As an independent member, Bösch entered in August 2026 - immediately after the previous composition of the supervisory body was at the center of a corruption scandal.
Corruption scandal surrounding the previous leadership
In August, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office exposed a scheme to legalize the funds used to pay bail for the former Minister of Energy and Justice Herman Galushchenko. According to the investigation, the then chairman of the Supervisory Board of Sens Bank, Mykola Gladishenko, and the chairman of the board of the bank, Oleg Stupak, were involved in the case, codenamed "Forest Gump".
The appointment of an experienced banker at the head of the supervisory body aims to restore independent control over the activities of the state bank after the scandal and strengthen the trust of depositors and partners in the institution. For clients of Sens Bank, a change in the supervisory board does not mean any changes to the terms and conditions of service of accounts or deposits.
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