The Supreme Court dismissed the complaint against the mother of a customs officer from Odesa region regarding a Mercedes

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal regarding the confiscation of a Mercedes-Benz G 400d car from the mother of Andriy Morar, head of the Department of Migration Control, Counteraction to Illegal Migration and Readmission of the Main Department of the State Migration Service in Odesa Oblast.

The Supreme Court issued the ruling on July 9.

The customs officer himself insisted that his wife had legally acquired ownership of the car, having bought it with her own savings, which she had been accumulating for 25 years. Her issuance of a power of attorney for the vehicle in his name and in the name of his wife is not identical to the right to dispose of such property. He emphasized that his mother did not have to prove for what purposes the property was purchased, whether she could use it or transfer it to third parties.

Earlier, the Supreme Court refused to suspend the execution of the decision to confiscate the Mercedes-Benz G 400d car of the mother of Andriy Moraru, Head of the Department of Migration Control, Counteraction to Illegal Migration and Readmission of the Main Department of the State Migration Service in Odesa Oblast.

Andriy Morara was dismissed from his position. In March, the Civil Court of Cassation dismissed the complaint filed by the lawyers of the mother of Andriy Moraru, Head of the Department for Migration Control, Counteraction to Illegal Migration and Readmission of the Main Department of the State Migration Service in Odesa Oblast, regarding her Mercedes-Benz G 400 d.

The judges decided that the cassation appeal did not meet the above requirements of the procedural law. In particular, the applicant, in the judges' opinion, referred in general terms to the misapplication of substantive and procedural law by the courts of previous instances, as well as to the legal opinions of the Supreme Court, but did not specify specific grounds for cassation appeal, which made it impossible to open cassation proceedings.

In June 2024, the SBI exposed migration officials who wanted to make money from a foreigner. Andrii Moraru was among the detainees.

After that, the HACC started consideration of the case on confiscation of the Mercedes-Benz car. The car, worth more than UAH 5 million, belongs to the mother of Andrii Moraru , an official at Odesa Customs, who does not even have a driver's license.

In March 2025, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the decision to confiscate a Mercedes-Benz G400 D used by Andrii Moraru, head of the migration control department of the State Migration Service in Odesa region.

The official registered the luxury SUV worth UAH 5.7 million for his mother in 2023.

However, neither his salary nor his mother's official income allowed for such a purchase. The court found that the car was purchased with funds of unknown origin and ordered that it be transferred to state ownership.

Кирило Бойко