NABU completes investigation of Odesa Regional Council Chairman case

Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine have completed an investigation into the case of Hryhoriy Didenko, head of the Odesa Regional Council, and his wife Yulia, a current MP, who are suspected of concealing property worth UAH 8 million.

This was reported by the NABU press service.

In October, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine announced suspicion of declaring false information to Hryhoriy Didenko, the head of the Odesa Regional Council, and his wife, MP Yulia Didenko.

Investigators found that the head of the regional council and his wife, an MP, acquired property worth almost UAH 5 million in 2021-2024 without confirmed sources of income. The assets include payments for apartments and two Audi SQ8 cars (2021 and 2024).

In September, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine granted the application of the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and seized an apartment and non-residential premises owned by MP Yulia Didenko.

According to SAPO estimates, MP Yulia Didenko and her relatives did not have enough money to purchase these assets, except in part.

In connection with the alienation of cars in favor of third parties, part of the value of which may be recovered as unreasonable, as well as the impossibility of seizing the funds that were contributions under the contract of sale of property rights, the Plaintiff points out the need to secure the claim by seizing other property that is not the subject of the dispute, however,

That is why the prosecutor requested the seizure of a 32.2 square meter apartment in Kyiv and a 39.9 square meter non-residential property of Yulia Didenko herself in Truskavets, Lviv region, to secure the lawsuit.

Кирило Бойко