Unjustified cars found in police officer's family in Odesa region

The State Bureau of Investigation and the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption have found unjustified assets worth almost UAH 3 million in the family of the head of one of the departments of the Strategic Investigations Department in Odesa region of the National Police of Ukraine.

According to the NAPC press service, the anti-corruption activists submitted these data to the High Anti-Corruption Court with a request to confiscate these assets.

The cars in question are Lexus ES 250, 2016, Mercedez-Benz GLK 220 CDI, 2011, Mercedez-Benz GLE 350D, 2017, which were purchased by the official's mother, father and mother-in-law in 2000-2021. However, the police officer and his wife actually used the movable property.

As noted in the SBI, the Lexus ES 250 was purchased under the contract for UAH 750 thousand, the Mercedes-Benz GLK 220 CDI, 2011 for UAH 425 thousand 156, and the Mercedes-Benz GLE 350D, 2017 for UAH 838.5 thousand (with a minimum market value of UAH 1 million 676.9 thousand).

The SBI has forwarded the materials on the identified signs of unreasonableness of the assets to the SAPO, and the SAPO prosecutor has already filed a claim with the HACC for more than UAH 2.8 million.

In June, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption published a list of 10 declarations in which violations were found during a full review, and the list included the declaration of a deputy of the Odesa Regional Council for 2023, which was found to be inaccurate.

In particular, the agency's employees found signs of unreasonable assets worth more than UAH 1.8 million and signs of inaccurate information worth more than UAH 28.7 million. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has launched a pre-trial investigation into the matter.

The NACP did not disclose who it was, but in May, the NACP reported that it had found inaccuracies in the declaration of Andriy Babenko, a member of the Odesa Regional Council and founder of the Samson security agency.

Кирило Бойко