The main financier of Odesa region donated 7 million

Maryna Zinchenko, Director of the Department of Finance of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, gave UAH 7.7 million as a gift.

This was reported by the Center for Public Investigations with reference to the declaration of significant changes in property status published by the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption.

The declaration does not specify to whom Maryna Zinchenko sold these funds. Maryna Zinchenko has been heading the Department of Finance of the Regional State Administration since 2013. In October 2015, she was elected as a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council of the seventh convocation. She is a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" faction. In October 2020, she was elected as a deputy of the regional council from the Servant of the People party.

SCREEN: Zinchenko's declaration

In November 2025, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, based on the results of full audits of the official's declarations for 2022 and 2023, reported that she had not indicated in her electronic declarations 38 land plots belonging to her minor son for two years in a row.

Most of these plots - 37 - should have been indicated in the declaration for 2022, the year the minor became the owner of these land plots. Maryna Zinchenko explained that she mistakenly failed to reflect these plots because her son has been abroad since 2017. The official also noted that she had informed the NACP of her mistake when submitting her 2023 declaration. The NACP confirmed this report, but noted that she did not provide information about the plots and documents necessary to verify the land data.

However, in her declaration for 2023, Maryna Zinchenko again failed to indicate these plots, which also increased by one during that year. She referred to the fact that her son Yevhen had reached the age of majority and ceased to be the subject of her property declaration. Marna Zinchenko's minor son bought the land plots allegedly at the expense of her brother Serhiy Chaika. The official stated that her brother supported her son financially and that it was he, not Yevhen, who bought the land, but she did not provide any documents to support this statement to the NACP.

In February 2023, law enforcement officers conducted authorized searches at the offices of the Odesa Regional Military Administration and at the residences of the OMA officials on suspicion of participation in a large-scale embezzlement scheme. Maryna Zinchenko was among the defendants in the case.

Кирило Бойко