Head of the Finance Department of Odesa City Hall resigns

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Acting Director of the Finance Department of Odesa City Council Andriy Zarytskyi has written a letter of resignation.

The information of journalist Iryna Hryb Intent was confirmed by sources in the city council.

The sources also confirmed that the official wrote the letter of resignation during a staff meeting with the head of the Odesa City Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak.

However, the press service of the Odesa municipality emphasized that there is no order to dismiss the official, so it is too early to talk about his dismissal.

Andriy Zarytskyi has been acting director of the Finance Department of the Odesa City Council since the summer of 2024. At the time, Gennadiy Trukhanov was the mayor, and Andriy Zarytskyi's professional career began in 1997. He has experience in municipal services, in particular, he worked for five years at Odesmiskelectrotrans. Since 2004, he has held positions at the State Tax Service of Ukraine.

Why he became the head of the finance department

After Svitlana Bedrega was dismissed, Iryna Zhyrova was appointed to act as the director of the city's finance department. Previously, she was the head of the local budget revenue planning and economic analysis division of the department.

The fact is that the previous director of the Department of Finance , Svitlana Bedreha , was dismissed by agreement of the parties after she entered into a plea agreement with the investigation and testified in the case where she was a defendant along with other former deputy mayors Mykhailo Kuchuk and Oleh Bryndak. Svitlana Bedreha donated 500 thousand hryvnias to support the Army of Drones project. The ex-official made this contribution shortly before her dismissal.

According to the data, before her dismissal from the city council, the former chief financial officer of Odesa made two contributions: On July 15 - UAH 200 thousand, and on July 16 - UAH 300 thousand.