In the Rivne region, the former head of the district council was exposed for illegally acquiring property worth millions of hryvnias.
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has declared the assets of the former head of one of the region's district councils worth UAH 5.6 million unfounded. These are five land plots in the Kyiv region, which, according to the investigation, the official could not have purchased with official income or savings.
SBI investigators established that he had registered almost 3 hectares of land in Sofiivska Borshchagovka as his property, although he had no legal sources of financing. The man divided the originally purchased plot into five smaller ones with the purpose of "building an apartment building." The total cost of the land is UAH 5.6 million.
The suspect's name has not been officially disclosed, but local media reports that he is 64-year-old Volodymyr Tutevych, a former deputy and head of the district branch of the Svoboda party, who headed the Mlynivka district council in 2014 after the Revolution of Dignity. The politician himself calls the accusations groundless and claims that he purchased the land with his own money.
This is not the first high-profile case in the region. In February of this year, law enforcement officers reported a similar violation by the current head of the Mlynivka Village Council, who declared property worth UAH 5.8 million without confirmed sources of income.
All circumstances and possible accomplices are currently being established.
