Former Vice Mayor of Odesa Zheman heads the city organization of the Batkivshchyna party

On September 4, former Vice Mayor of Odesa Dmytro Zheman became the head of the Odesa city organization of the Batkivshchyna party.

Intent learned about this from its own sources.

In the photos available to the editorial office, Zheman shakes hands with the first deputy chairman of the Odesa Regional Council, Oleh Radkovsky.

According to unofficial reports, Dmytro Zheman has received support from the capital. He is considered a potential candidate for the post of Odesa mayor, as he was previously named as the main contender for this position.

In October last year, Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov dismissed his deputy , Dmytro Zheman. At that time, the document stated that Dmytro Zheman was dismissed by agreement of the parties on October 3. The reason for the dismissal was the official's statement.

Dmytro Zheman has been working as a deputy mayor since May 2020, when Hennadiy Trukhanov ordered to appoint him as an acting mayor. In December of the same year, he lost this status and became a full-fledged deputy mayor.

Dmytro Zheman was born on December 23, 1978, in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast. He has a degree in transportation engineering.

In July 2014, he was appointed Deputy Director of Odesmiskelektrotrans, which he has headed since February 2015.

In October 2019, he was appointed Director of the Department of Municipal Economy, from where he was appointed Deputy Mayor.

In 2021, Zheman filed a declaration of significant changes in his property status, in which he indicated the purchase of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle for 110 thousand hryvnias.

His declaration also contained information about a 64-square-meter apartment in Kryzhanivka, which he uses free of charge and which belongs to Svitlana Berezovska, and land plots of 1,100 square meters and 550 square meters in the village of Korsuntsi, which belong to his wife. In addition, Dmytro Zheman's wife, Tetiana, owns a 2021 Audi Q8, purchased the same year.

As a vice mayor , Dmytro Zheman earned UAH 556 thousand 22. While the ex-vice mayor's wife keeps 10 thousand US dollars and 320 thousand hryvnias. Dmytro Zheman earned 124 thousand 242 hryvnias. Interestingly, in 2021, Tetiana Zhemian had more hryvnias - 490 thousand, and Dmytro Zhemian kept 184 thousand 242 hryvnias.