Lyudmyla Kozlovska

TARCZYŃSKI MEP NIGHT APOLOGIES TO ME AND OPEN DIALOGUE FOUNDATION FOR DEFAMATION On 3rd of Jan 2025 a Member of the European Parliament and candidate for the Law and Justice's would-be presidential election Dominik Tarczynski has published an apology for slandering me, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, and Open Dialogue Foundation. His statement is the result of a final lost in court. However, Tarczynski wrote it overnight in the hope that no one would see it while our profiles in X have been blocked by him. Just to recall, Tarczynski in 2019 slandered us for money laundering from #Russia. He attacked us with same false slanders in while he was a Member of Parliamentary Assembley of the Council of Europe, and then in the European Parliament. This slander was also affecting our rights for banking services in the #EU, financially excluding me, my family members and different entities connected with me. The verdict in this case came down in the summer of 2022, and on 20 Dec. 2024 the Court of Appeal in #Warsaw rejected his whole application, requiring a compensation and the publication of such content: 'I, Dominik Tarczynski, apologise to Lyudmyla Kozlovska for infringement of her dignity and good name and to the Open Dialogue Foundation in Warsaw (Registration no. (KRS): 0000353754) for damage to its reputation and good name by disseminating damaging and untrue information about their participation in laundering of money coming from Russia during my appearance in the Deutsche Welle programme ‘Conflict Zone’'. Certainly 10 000 PLN as compensation isn't enough to restore the reputation and damage caused by Tarczynski for the last 5 years. We should put in place more effective accountability measures to stop these kinds of attacks, especially from state representatives in the Parliamentary Assembley of the Council of Europe and European Parliament.

New year comes not always with good news. Here's what the Open Dialogue Foundation office building in Kyiv looks like today after the Russian shelling and bombing. Bankova street, center of Kyiv. December 31, 2024 VS January 1, 2025. https://en.odfoundation.eu/how-can-you-help/

Happy New Year #bitcoin #freedomtech developers! 🧡🎄 all the best for you and your beloved!

Discovering blue sky to educate regulators there about abuse of AML/CFT laws. It is such a pain to post there something. Why? Why it doesn’t allow me to post 😣😱☺️

🚨 €1M Retaliation for Exposing Russia Sanctions Evasion #Kyrgyz #Bakai bank filed a SLAPP lawsuit against Open Dialogue Foundation in #Belgium, demanding removal of our two reports & €1M damages - a common intimidation tactic used in Kyrgyzstan to silence critics. 🔴 Key facts on Bakai bank #SLAPP case against ODF in Belgium: • Bank waited 18 months to file • No evidence of actual damage provided • €1M claims typical in Kyrgyz censorship cases • To date, a lot of information can be found with offers of intermediaries to open accounts in Bakai bank to bypass sanctions • ODF's reports remain public, addressing sanctions circumvention While ODF advocates for financial inclusion and privacy, we have revealed in 8 reports how authoritarian regimes abuse AML/CFT laws to: - violate financial & human rights domestically, - conduct transnational repression in Western countries and - evade sanctions. 🔎The bigger picture: While Russia claims to use #Bitcoin for foreign trade, our investigation shows preference for less traceable traditional banking systems in Central Asia. 🔴 Why? Russia's action, not declarations, should be followed: • Bitcoin = permanent public record • Regional banks of Central Asia = established infrastructure + opacity of completely unaccountable rulers • Traditional banking of third countries enables sanctions evasion more effectively 🔴 The real problem: Current #AML regime relies on 'trust' with authoritarian and dictatorial states. This enables: • Sanctions circumvention through banks controlled by them and their allies • Abuse of Western legal systems to silence critics 🔴 AML/CFT laws impact on legitimate actors: • Excessive compliance costs for Western businesses • Financial barriers for NGOs & humanitarian aid • Continued global financial exclusion and repressions 🔴 Bakai's bank SLAPP case against ODF in Belgium proves: Banks will go transnational to silence those exposing sanction evasion schemes. Time to reform the AML/CFT system that enables both censorship and sanctions circumvention. 🟢 Help us to stop such abuses and get funding for legal defence against SLAPP of Bakai Bank, support ODF's human rights work!