Former head of border guards in Odesa region sues the state for 162 thousand

The Boryspil City District Court of Kyiv Region upheld the lawsuit filed by Serhiy Mul, the former head of the Southern Regional Directorate of the State Border Guard Service, and ruled that the state owes him 162,000 UAH.

This was reported by Serhiy Mul.

According to him, he demanded the money from the state as compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by the criminal prosecution of him in the case of false information in his electronic declarations.

In the lawsuit, Sergiy Mul stated his obligation to use the money to purchase an unmanned aerial vehicle for the needs of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

In 2024, the High Anti-Corruption Court closed the proceedings and acquitted Sergiy Mul for lack of corpus delicti; in May 2024, the Supreme Court upheld the decision, but prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office disagreed with the decision.

Declaration cases

In January 2023, law enforcement officers completed the investigation into the case of declaring false information by the head of one of the regional departments of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office did not name the department, but Intent 's own sources in law enforcement told us that it was the head of the Southern Regional Department of the State Border Guard Service, Serhiy Mul.

He was suspected of intentionally entering false information in his declarations for 2020 and 2021, which differed from the true data by more than 1.5 million hryvnias.

According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, in the 2020 declaration, the official did not indicate an unfinished construction project that was not put into operation but was fully habitable - a manor house with outbuildings, where his wife and children lived permanently during 2020.

In his 2021 declaration, he concealed the fact that his family members used this property and, at the same time, trying to create an artificial impression of compliance with the law, reflected the data on this property as a land plot with buildings, without reflecting the data on its value.

Other scandals

In 2022, the media reported that searches were conducted at Serhiy Mul's workplace and at his home, based on information that the official had failed to declare a house worth UAH 6 million.

Then they allegedly found more than 40 million hryvnias in his possession that had not been declared. He also had documents proving his ownership of real estate in Italy and Spain.

According to media reports, criminal proceedings were initiated under the article on illegal enrichment. He also allegedly had a passport of a Colombian citizen in the name of Jorge Fernandez, as well as a large amount of cash in euros, dollars and Belarusian rubles, 3 bank cards, one of them of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse.

Кирило Бойко