A village council member in the Mykolaiv region failed to disclose 4 million in his financial disclosures

A member of the Mostivka Village Council in Mykolaiv Oblast was found guilty of providing false information in his 2023 and 2024 financial disclosure statements. For this violation, the official was sentenced to 240 hours of community service and barred from holding public office for one year.

This is stated in the verdict of the Domanivsky District Court of Mykolaiv Oblast.

The violations were uncovered by specialists from the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) during an audit of the council member’s financial statements. As it turned out, the official failed to include real estate and vehicles belonging to him in his declarations for two years. The total value of the concealed assets exceeded 4.4 million hryvnias.

Among the undeclared real estate was a complex of three buildings in the village of Kozubivka, a residential house, and several dozen hectares of land that the deputy owned or leased. The most valuable item was the lease of a plot of land covering more than 36 hectares, valued at approximately 843,000 hryvnias.

In addition, 12 vehicles were omitted from the declarations, including KAMAZ and MAN trucks and trailers. The most expensive of these was a MAN 26.414 truck, valued at 416,000–445,000 hryvnias depending on the model year.

In court, the man pleaded guilty. According to him, he filled out the declarations “thoughtlessly” and automatically. He also stated that he had transferred seven pieces of equipment to the Armed Forces at the start of the full-scale war but did not know how to formalize the transfer, so he assumed they were no longer his property. He also believes that the residential building was overvalued.

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