A lawmaker from the Odesa region failed to disclose a foreign passport and assets worth 6 million in his financial disclosure statement

The National Agency for Corruption Prevention has identified inaccurate information totaling 5.9 million hryvnias in the updated financial disclosure statement of Oleg Kirev, a member of the Tairovka Village Council. The official failed to provide details about his foreign passport, concealed bank accounts, and offered an unsatisfactory explanation for the lack of information regarding his wife’s eight vehicles.

This is stated in the report on the results of the declaration review. 

Violations were found in several sections of the document. The council member stated that he did not have a foreign passport or a unique demographic registry number, although official databases show that he does possess these documents. In addition, the official failed to declare his wife’s bank accounts at PrivatBank and Universal Bank.

Significant discrepancies were also found in the section on vehicles. The lawmaker noted that his wife had not provided him with information about the cars. However, a check of the registries shows that eight vehicles are registered in her name, including a Volkswagen Golf, a KIA K5, and a Hyundai Sonata.

The lawmaker himself attributed the lack of accurate data to technical limitations of the declaration system and assured that he had no intention of concealing anything. However, the NACP rejected these arguments.

The NACP’s investigation raised significant doubts regarding the MP’s family’s savings. His wife stated in the document that, as of the end of 2024, she had managed to save 180,000 U.S. dollars in cash. However, an analysis of official databases and registries shows that the family simply had no source from which to obtain such funds.

According to the records, the family’s only official income for the year was extremely modest. The lawmaker himself earned a “net” income of only 19,680 hryvnias, while his wife’s legal income amounted to just over 250,000 hryvnias.

At the same time, their official income barely covered even the family’s basic needs. That same year, the official’s wife spent 130,000 hryvnias on the purchase of two Volkswagen Golf cars. In addition, based on conservative estimates, the living expenses for a family of four—parents and two children—amounted to at least another 149,000 hryvnias. Given this, the Anti-Corruption Agency concluded that the couple could not have saved such a significant amount of foreign currency from legal sources.

Earlier,Intent analyzed the 2025 financial disclosures of 11 out of 13 appointed judges of the Mykolaiv Court of Appeals and compiled a ranking based on their incomes. We were unable to locate the declarations ofTetiana Fortuna andSerhiy Hlubochenko.

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