Court seizes property of former Migration Service official in Odesa

The Peresypskyi District Court of Odesa granted the prosecutor's motion and seized the property of Migration Service official Andrii Moraru.

This was reported by the Center for Public Investigations.

As a civil servant, he was able to acquire assets whose value significantly exceeded his legitimate income, and therefore, according to the investigation, he formed an intention to acquire such assets and conceal their real origin.

In order to avoid criminal liability, the official took actions aimed at creating the appearance of legitimacy of the acquisition of property. In particular, the assets were registered in his mother's name, which allowed him to conceal their actual owner. At the same time, he filed annual declarations for 2020-2023, in which he provided false information.

When filling out the declarations, the official entered information about family members, real estate, income, monetary assets, and bank accounts. At the same time, in the section "Monetary assets", he did not reflect his own savings placed in bank accounts, nor did he indicate other available financial assets in the declarations for 2020-2022.

The investigation established that the official used controlled legal entities - Salvage PE and Neonol OK - to implement the asset concealment scheme. He kept the documents and seals of these companies at his place of residence and used them to register assets and create the appearance of their legal origin.

Financial analysis showed a significant discrepancy between income and assets. Between 1999 and 2023, Andrii Moraru received more than UAH 2 million in income, his wife received UAH 61,053, and his mother received UAH 1.8 million. At the same time, the difference between the confirmed income and the value of the acquired property is more than UAH 13 million.

Thus, according to the investigation, the official acquired assets whose value significantly exceeds his legitimate income, which contains signs of illicit enrichment.

Andrii Morara was dismissed from his position in May 2025. Already in February 2026, the former head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the State Migration Service of Ukraine in Odesa region was again suspected of illicit enrichment. This time it was about the "forgotten" 13 million. In 2024, the official failed to declare property, assets and income worth more than UAH 83 million.

Кирило Бойко