Inaccurate information totaling 12.7 million hryvnias was found in the financial disclosure statement of Leonid Remiga, the former director of a hospital in Kherson.
This is stated in the conclusion of the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK).
Remiga headed the Kherson City Clinical Hospital named after Afanasy and Olga Tropin. In his declaration, he stated that throughout 2024, he did not live with anyone, did not share a household, and had no mutual rights—including with Olena Solovyova. The NACP rejected this explanation.
The agency gathered bank transaction records, payments to the homeowners’ association, and receipts from a supermarket and a service provider. Solovyova paid for the maintenance of the common areas around the Kyiv apartment, utilities, and transferred money to the apartment’s owner. She regularly withdrew cash at a supermarket located in the same building. The same supermarket, pharmacy, and restaurant also appear in Remiga’s own bank statements. Money was transferred between their accounts.
On April 21, 2024, Solovyova purchased a 2017 Volkswagen Passat for 696,000 UAH. On the same day, 2,900 UAH was transferred from Remiga’s account to an official Volkswagen service center. The woman does not have a driver’s license. Three days later, Remiga personally insured the car and later paid for its repairs.
On June 18, she bought a 65-square-meter apartment in Sofiivska Borshchahivka for 2.8 million UAH. On the day of the transaction and in the days that followed, Remiga’s card was used at an ATB supermarket, a pharmacy, and a pet store near this building—even though he does not own any real estate in that neighborhood.
On October 26, Solovyova purchased a 2019 Toyota Prius for 500,000 UAH. Immediately afterward, a payment was made from the director’s account to a cash withdrawal point near the MREV.
This was sufficient for the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) to recognize Solovyova as a member of the director’s family—a person with whom he effectively cohabits without being married. Consequently, all of her assets were required to be disclosed in his financial disclosure statement.
On September 26, 2024, Remiga himself purchased a 29-square-meter apartment in the same Sofiivska Borshchahivka for 1.5 million UAH. Neither the apartment nor the corresponding expenditure is listed in the declaration.
Solovyova owns three apartments in Stepanivka near Kherson—purchased in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Remiga himself gifted her the last of these, transferring a one-quarter share to her under an agreement dated June 6, 2018. An independent appraisal valued this property at a minimum of 550,000 UAH. There is not a single word about this in the declaration.
The director also failed to declare his vehicles: in August 2024, his son Maksym sold him a 2012 Volvo XC90 for 49,000 UAH. Neither this car, nor the Passat, nor Solovyova’s Prius appear in the documents. The only vehicle the director listed was a 1992 ZAZ-1102, the documents for which, according to him, were destroyed by fire during the occupation.
In total, the real estate that the agency was able to evaluate resulted in 4.8 million UAH in inaccurate information, while the three cars accounted for another 1.3 million UAH.
According to the NACP’s calculations, in 2024 the couple acquired assets worth 6 million hryvnias: two apartments in Borshchahivka, a Passat, a Prius, a Volvo, and several foreign currency deposits into Solovyova’s account—ranging from 1,100 to 4,000 dollars per transaction.
The agency estimated the director’s official total annual income at 857,000 UAH after taxes. Her ability to spend on new assets was no more than 67,000 UAH. The NACP classified the difference of 5.86 million UAH as income from unidentified sources—it is precisely this amount that constitutes the lion’s share of the criminal proceedings.
Separately, it was discovered that the director also failed to include his own legal income in the declaration: 206,000 hryvnias in salary from the hospital, 211,000 UAH from the INTERSOS humanitarian mission, 3,000 UAH from a nonprofit organization, and 134,000 UAH in charitable donations. He underreported his pension from 222,000 to 53,000 UAH, and his social benefit from 72,000 to 18,000 UAH.
At the end of the year, Solovyova’s bank accounts held $21,200—approximately 891,000 UAH. The audit did not determine the source of these foreign currency funds.
When explaining the discrepancies, Remiga cited his advanced age, a Group III disability, and his captivity in Russia. Regarding his ex-wife, he stated that at the time of the divorce, she was already wealthy, had received an inheritance, worked abroad, and could afford apartments and cars on her own.
The NACP did not accept these explanations. It also turned out that the director does have a foreign passport, even though he indicated “information missing” in his declaration.
Ірина Глухова