The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has found signs of a corruption criminal offense in a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, which indicates that he has enriched himself illegally by more than UAH 70 million. The monitoring was initiated based on a complaint from Bihus.Info about the discrepancy between the standard of living of the MP, his family members and people close to him and the income received.
Thus, in 2021, his mother-in-law purchased a 360-square-meter apartment in the elite Diamond Hill residential complex in the center of the capital for UAH 5.5 million. However, the NACP found evidence of a significant understatement of the value of the property - the real market value of the apartment at the date of purchase was about UAH 65 million.
At the NACP's request to explain the sources of the funds, the MP said that he did not know about his mother-in-law's purchase of the apartment and attached her written explanation. She indicated the sources of the funds as her own savings, as well as the savings of her husband and daughters. However, it was found that the income received by all of them from legal sources was not enough to buy expensive real estate.
An attempt to conceal the real value of the apartment by entering false parameters in the documents was also detected, in particular, the indication of its location in a dormitory in the peripheral zone of Kyiv.
In addition, the MP's wife purchased a Mercedes-Benz S350L, the real value of which is almost three times higher than the one specified in the purchase agreement.
Thus, the NACP did not establish the legal sources of funds for which the apartment and vehicle were purchased for almost UAH 65 million and over UAH 5.5 million, respectively, belonging to close relatives of the official.
The substantiated conclusion regarding the MP with the revealed signs of a criminal corruption offense was sent to the Prosecutor General's Office to determine the jurisdiction and decide on the issue of entering information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations on the grounds of a criminal offense under Art. 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Warning. In accordance with part one of Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person shall be presumed innocent of committing a crime and shall not be subjected to criminal punishment until his or her guilt is proved in accordance with the law and established by a court verdict of guilty.
