The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), following a full audit of the 2021 and 2022 declarations submitted by the former director of the state enterprise "Main Training and Methodological Center of the State Labor Service", found inaccurate information worth UAH 6.6 million (in the 2021 declaration) and UAH 9.5 million (in the 2022 declaration).
The audit revealed that during the first year of the war, the ex-director's wife became the owner of three properties in Montenegro worth 270 thousand euros (equivalent to almost UAH 8.8 million). A month after the purchase, she sold one of the properties to a Russian citizen for 77 thousand euros (the equivalent of almost UAH 3 million). In the same year, she became the owner of an Audi Q8 for UAH 1.25 million, but the seller had purchased the car six months earlier in a car dealership as a new one for UAH 2.5 million. At the same time, the seller of the car is the beneficial owner of a company that carried out a set of repairs at a state-owned enterprise in 2021, the head of which was the former public servant.
In 2021, the wife of the former public servant purchased a Mercedes-Benz GLE 43 AMG for UAH 210 thousand, which is also cheaper than the market value, which could have been UAH 1.1 million.
At the same time, in 2021, the former public servant declared his and his wife's cash savings at the end of the reporting year, including UAH 700 thousand and USD 150 thousand. USD in cash, as well as almost UAH 780 thousand, USD 12 thousand, and EUR 20.5 thousand. USD and 20.5 thousand euros in bank accounts. In 2022 - 400 thousand UAH, 40 thousand USD. USD and EUR 80 thousand in cash, as well as almost UAH 1.3 million, USD 16 thousand and EUR 45.6 thousand in bank accounts. USD 16 thousand and EUR 45.6 thousand in bank accounts.
At the same time, the audit found that the public servant and his family members, given their income from official sources and expenses for real estate and cars, did not have the financial ability to save monetary assets in the specified amounts.
The information provided in the declaration differs from the true information by more than UAH 6.6 million for 2021 and UAH 9.5 million for 2022.
The public servant's actions have signs of an offense that is punishable by criminal liability under Part 2 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The relevant substantiated conclusions were sent to the National Police of Ukraine. Based on the results of consideration of the substantiated conclusion drawn up in respect of the former public servant for 2021, the Investigation Department of the Main Department of the National Police in Kyiv registered the criminal proceedings in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations.
In July 2022, the public servant resigned from his position and left the country at the end of 2022.
Disclaimers. In accordance with part one of Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime and shall not be subjected to criminal punishment until his or her guilt is proved by law and established by a court verdict of guilty.
As a reminder, in the first half of 2024, NACP completed 206 inspections under the new risk-based approach. NACP found inaccurate information worth almost UAH 664 million, unjustified assets worth UAH 14.4 million, and signs of illicit enrichment worth UAH 38.3 million. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine submitted 84 substantiated conclusions to the competent authorities and 4 materials to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
Currently, NACP authorized officials are conducting 329 full inspections. The full list of persons in respect of whom full inspections have been launched, as well as the results of the inspections, can be found here.
What happens to the declaration after it is submitted? Read here.
