The former deputy mayor for executive bodies of the Dnipro City Council has been notified of suspicion of deliberately providing false information in his declaration worth UAH 47 million and illegal enrichment worth UAH 8 million.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings, taking into account the materials of the full audits of the declarations for 2022 and 2023 conducted by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is being conducted by the Main Department of the National Police in the Dnipro region under the procedural guidance of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.
During the audit of the 2022 declaration, the NACP found signs of false information worth over UAH 23 million, and in the 2023 declaration – over UAH 24 million.
In both declarations, the declarant did not indicate information about his ‘former’ wife and her property with a total value of more than UAH 23 million, including property acquired with signs of illegal enrichment worth more than UAH 8 million. This includes:
- three residential premises and three storage facilities in Barcelona, Spain;
- an apartment in Dnipro;
- commercial premises (shopping pavilions, garages, etc.) in Dnipro;
- a number of land plots in Dnipro and Ivano-Frankivsk regions;
- a 2021 LEXUS RX 350 car;
- corporate rights in three limited liability companies.
NACP found that the woman acquired these properties after her divorce, and most of them immediately after the declarant was appointed deputy mayor. For example, she bought an apartment in Dnipro for UAH 4 million a month after her official divorce. At the same time, she did not have the financial capacity to make such expenditures entirely from her own funds obtained from legal sources.
As noted by the prosecutor's office, at the request of the prosecutor, the suspect was remanded in custody and the illegally acquired property was seized. In connection with his hiding from the pre-trial investigation authorities outside Ukraine, he has been placed on the international wanted list.
Disclaimer. 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 of their declarations, as well as the results of the audits, can be found here.
What happens to the declaration after it is submitted? Read here.
