Deputies of Kherson region declared calf farms, shops and farms

Kherson region deputies own thousands of square meters of business premises, and some of them don't even have a parking space. The declarations showed inequality in commercial assets among local deputies.

The Center forPublicInvestigations analyzed 25 declarations of Kherson regional council members and found out what non-residential properties the deputies own.

Ruslan Romanenko owns the largest amount of non-residential space - 7993.9 square meters. It is a complex of buildings of a dairy farm and a corn storage facility in Kakhovka district. His wife Olena has much smaller assets: two utility rooms in Kyiv and a dental office in Kherson with a total area of 79.8 square meters.

His party colleague Viktor Vetrov is not far behind. He owns a repair and maintenance building, two auto parts stores, shares in an administrative building, a cafe and a livestock complex, a total of 4218 square meters of non-residential real estate. His wife Iryna owns a 256-square-meter store in Kherson.

MP Viktoriia Havrenkova declared a 1,265-square-meter calf farm in Kherson district. Yuriy Vlasov, a deputy from Ihor Kolikhayev's party "We live here!" Yuriy Vlasov owns non-residential premises in the Nikopol district of Dnipro region totaling 1,236 square meters. His wife has no business premises.

Yuriy Odarchenko, a member of the Batkivshchyna party, declared a basement, a garage, and production facilities in Kherson with a total area of 639 square meters, but he did not list any family members in his declaration.

At the same time, a number of MPs, including Hanna Pylyay, Volodymyr Senyk, Maria Levkivska, Volodymyr Khvostov, Serhiy Khlan, and others, did not declare any business premises, garages, or even parking spaces.

As a result, some MPs keep thousands of "squares" for business, while others do not even have a parking space.

MPs' cars are no less eloquent than their houses or bank accounts. The declarations include old Zhiguli, luxury SUVs, and even boats. In the Kherson Regional Council, five deputies use premium cars, while the rest of the deputies either use official vehicles or do not have their own cars.

Анна Бальчінос