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A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down

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327 points jemmyw | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 22:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.36s | source
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Max-Ganz-II ◴[31 Oct 25 00:12 UTC] No.45766965[source]▶
Back in early 2022, a little after the war started, TransferWise blocked transfer (i.e. donation) to the account run by the National Bank of Ukraine for support of the Ukrainian military.

I have and never will forgive them for this.

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jesterson ◴[31 Oct 25 06:48 UTC] No.45769053[source]▶
> I have and never will forgive them for this.

Ukraine is well known money laundering machine. Before the conflict started it was a well known fact and many banks didn't want to work with transfers to Ukraine. I am sure TransferWise shared similar risk model.

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Max-Ganz-II ◴[31 Oct 25 08:39 UTC] No.45769666[source]▶
It was possible to make transfers to the military support account for about two weeks after war started; then it was blocked.

Transfers to other accounts were still possible.

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jesterson ◴[01 Nov 25 13:36 UTC] No.45781532[source]▶
Amount of theft from “military” accounts in Ukraine is staggering, if anyone would ever be interested to figure out. Everyone know that except people blindfolded by the world “military” and deluded to think money there would be used on anything else but beneficiaries whims.
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1. Max-Ganz-II ◴[01 Nov 25 20:56 UTC] No.45785267[source]▶
Supporting evidence, please. So far you've made claims only - "everyone knows".

Kyiv Independent, who are pretty good at this and are on the spot, do not report large scale or significant military corruption. They have found and report on pretty corruption (individuals selling personal weapons). I note EU and US are very interested in keeping track of where the money is going.