It became known which of Odesa deputies traveled abroad through the "Shlyakh" party

From September 2022 to mid-March 2023, 252 men, including MPs, used the "Shlyakh" system, which allowed men to legally cross the border under martial law, in Odesa Oblast.

As the journalists of the Center for Public Investigations found out, in September, a former deputy of the Lyman District Council, a former police officer Serhiy Kryvenko received permission to leave. By the way, in April 2015, this man was added to the Myrotvorets database as a supporter of the Russians.

In October, Dmytro Tantsiura, a deputy of Odesa City Council from "Trust the Deeds", and his son Mykola Tantsiura received permission to travel. In December, the deputy traveled abroad for the second time, but without his son. In November, this opportunity was used by a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council from the Opposition Bloc, director of Berezivka Avtoshlyakhbud LLC, Kniaz Khachatryan.

In December ,Denys Balukh, Oleh Etnarovych, and Yuriy Basyuk took advantage of the opportunity to travel abroad . The first two are deputies of the Odesa City Council from Doviruy Dilam, and the third is a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council from European Solidarity. At the beginning of 2023, in January, Trifon Antov, a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council from the For the Future party, received permission to leave, and in March, his colleague from the banned OPFL party ,Ivan Fursin , received permission to leave .

The CPR contacted them for comment, but so far only Oleh Etnarovych has responded.

"Honestly, I don't remember anymore. I don't think I ever used the "Shlyakh" system. I remember that I once submitted documents to the administration for departure. But then I didn't use it," said the deputy from the mayor's party.

We asked if there was a possibility of a name match, but Etnarovych said that there was no full namesake in Ukraine.

Officials at various levels also received permission to travel. For example, in September and December, Marchenko signed an order authorizing the departure of Yuriy Dimchoglo, deputy chairman of the Odesa Regional Council and a member of the Odesa Regional Council. And in November, the official's son , Dmytro Dimchoglo, could travel abroad .

The system was also used by Ruslan Biloshytskyi , deputy head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and Yuriy Kozlovskyi , head of the territorial department of the State Labor Service in Mykolaiv region . By the way, a man with a similar name to Kozlovsky's ran for the Mykolaiv Regional Council in 2010 as a candidate of the now banned Party of Regions. In addition, Yuriy Lyashenko and Vitaliy Petrusenko received permission to leave . The former is the deputy head of the Dalnytsia village council for executive affairs, and the latter is the secretary ofthe Vyzyr village council.

Yuriy Kyrychenko and Oleh Leonidov could have used the Shlyakh system. The name of the first man is the same as the name of the husband of Oksana Kyrychenko, a former chief specialist of the Southern Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice of Odesa. And the name of the second man is identical to the name of the husband of Lilia Leonidova , a deputy of the Odesa City Council from the banned OPFL.

Кирило Бойко