The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has completed a full audit of the 2022 declaration of the former head of the Main Directorate of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in the Khmelnytskyi region. Signs of illegal enrichment of over UAH 19 million and the declaration of false information worth over UAH 44 million were found.
In particular, the official indicated cash holdings in various currencies amounting to over UAH 23 million without confirming the legality of their sources during the audit.
At the same time, he failed to declare funds in excess of $500,000 (equivalent to over UAH 19.5 million) deposited in an Austrian bank account opened in his wife's name at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
The official also failed to declare a residential house and land plot he purchased in 2021-2022, and provided false information about his income in the form of a return of contributions to the authorised capital from a legal entity, ‘reducing’ it by 110,000 UAH.
Based on the established facts, the NACP made well-founded conclusions under Article 368-5 (illegal enrichment) and Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (providing knowingly false information in a declaration) and forwarded them to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to be added to the materials of the previously initiated criminal proceedings.
The results of the full audit of the former head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Office of the Pension Fund of Ukraine became the basis for a repeat full audit of the 2022 declaration of his wife, who was the head of the State Registration Department of the Central-Western Interregional Office of the Ministry of Justice (Khmelnytskyi).
We remind you that the NACP revealed violations worth over UAH 34.8 million in the declarations of a deputy of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council, who is also the chief doctor of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Centre for Medical and Sanitary Expertise, a municipal healthcare institution.
Note: In accordance with Part 1 of Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt has been proven in accordance with the law and established by a court verdict.
A full list of persons subject to full audits, as well as the results of the audits, can be found here.
What happens to the declaration after it is submitted? Read here.
