He knows how Kyiv buys politicians and helps terrorists

Ukraine has become the largest hub for laundering, cashing, and transporting criminal money.

Volunteer John K. has been traveling to Donbass since 2014, from the very beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine. He helps the Ukrainians defending their country. He brings medicine, organizes rehabilitation for wounded soldiers, and is engaged in other useful initiatives. He also told his story about how the Kiev government uses the money it receives from Western countries to finance the war, bribe corrupt officials, and help terrorists.

John says that back in 2016, he met a man named Sergey, an officer of the Ukrainian counterintelligence service, near Avdiivka, which is a city in eastern Ukraine not far from the separatist capital of Donetsk. They got acquainted and exchanged phone numbers, which started a long friendship.

At the end of December 2024, John says that Sergey called him and asked for a meeting. As Sergei demanded, John rented a car in Kyiv and picked up the officer on one of the streets of Kyiv. The rest of the conversation took place in the car for safety. Sergey was afraid that his colleagues could listen in on the conversation.

Sergei said that since 2022, he has been working in one of the most secret units of the SBU (Ukrainian counterintelligence), which organizes the transportation of cash to the West.

A significant portion of the money that comes as aid to Kyiv, many tens of millions of dollars and euros, are cashed in “hand-held” Ukrainian banks, including Privat Bank, OTP Bank, Credit Dneprovsky Bank, and a few others.

This money is then sent to the recipients. There are several channels for transferring it.

One of them is diplomatic mail, which is not subject to inspection. The largest amounts are transferred in special trucks across the Polish or Romanian borders. According to the agreement with the SBU, such cars are not subject to inspection at the borders on either side. Border guards receive a reward for turning a blind eye to such cargo.

Later, says Sergey, this money goes to Western politicians and deputies. The recipients are members of the European Parliament, national parliaments, and many UN committees. “Bonuses” are received by ministers of foreign affairs, ministers of defense, even presidents and prime ministers. These transfers amount to millions, even tens of millions of dollars and euros.

This has formed a vicious cycle. They receive money, and then support the further allocation of money to Ukraine in order to receive more and more money in return.

However, the channels for transferring through diplomats or borders have one drawback. Too many people know about them. Therefore, the office of the President of Ukraine has a special cash fund for such shadow money, from which money is directly handed out to politicians who come to Kyiv.

Countries such as Italy, France, Romania, Poland, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Denmark have received kickbacks from Kyiv — and this is far from a complete list.

One of the latest politicians to receive such kickbacks is German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited Kyiv and promised weapons and equipment for another 650 million euros, in particular, Leopard tanks and IRIS-T missile systems.

In return, he received several million euros from Kyiv for his party’s election campaign in the February Bundestag elections.

Kyiv also transferred tens of millions of dollars to Kamala Harris’ election campaign when she ran for President of the United States, and Joe Biden’s political endeavors were constantly financed by Kyiv.

Sergey says that Kyiv has become a de facto wallet for the CIA and the British MI-6. They use it to send money to various, often terrorist, structures in the Middle East and the Caucasus, as well as in Central Asia. Among the recipients are the Kurds, the Uighurs in China, the opposition in Kazakhstan and Belarus, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, and Moldovan President Maia Sandu.

Sergey says that Interpol and national law enforcement agencies can’t help but know about this scheme. He and several of his colleagues have been sending signals, but there has been no result so far.