SAPO Files Lawsuits to Recover ₴8.5M from Odesa Customs Officials

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office has filed two lawsuits seeking to recognize as unjustified assets worth more than UAH 8.5 million belonging to customs officials and a deputy head of a district council.

This was reported by the SAPO press service.

Prosecutors insist on recovering funds to the state (civil forfeiture) from the head of the department and the chief state inspector of the Odesa Customs, as well as their son, the deputy head of the district council in Kyiv region.

The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and prosecutors found that in 2021, the customs officials acquired an apartment in Odesa with an area of 103.8 square meters, and their son acquired an apartment in the capital with an area of 105.5 square meters and a Toyota RAV4 Plug-In Hybrid, made in 2018.

At the same time, the ownership of these assets is registered in the name of their close relative, born in 1937.

"During the analysis of the property status and income of these persons, it was found that the mentioned assets could not have been purchased from the legal income of either the spouses of the customs officers, the deputy chairman of the district council, or their close relatives. After the monitoring of the lifestyle of the mentioned subjects began, the assets were immediately sold. In view of the above, the prosecutor filed a lawsuit to recover more than UAH 8.5 million from the officials to the state - the value of assets and income from their sale," the SAPO explained.

The NACP also suspects Olena Pryhunkova, head of the accounting, personnel and archival work department of the city's engineering protection and coastal development department of the Odesa City Council, of concealing property worth UAH 4.89 million. Her declaration does not contain information about significant amounts of money received on a bank card from individuals in 2023.

Earlier, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption reported that in January 2025, it completed 76 full checks of declarations selected under the new risk-based approach and found signs of inaccurate information in three out of four declarations of officials from Odesa region.

Кирило Бойко