Relatives of two deputy heads of the Cyber Police Department, Oleg Zavorotny and Andriy Sharonov, have purchased apartments worth tens of millions of hryvnias in recent years. Bihus.Info journalists report that this happened during 2020–2025 and has raised questions about the sources of funds for such purchases.
In the family of Oleg Zavorotny, who became deputy head of the Cyber Police in 2019, the mother-in-law and wife purchased three apartments in the Comfort Town residential complex in Kyiv. Each apartment costs about 7.5 million hryvnias. According to journalists, the women did not have the opportunity to purchase such a large amount of real estate with official income, because the mother-in-law started a business only in 2023, and the wife's income increased significantly only after 2023. Zavorotny himself said that he did not understand which apartments he was talking about, and promised to get information from third parties.
Another person involved in the investigation was Deputy Head of the Cyber Police Andriy Sharonov, who has held the position since 2022. In his first declaration for 2022, he indicated savings, a house, a land plot and an apartment in Odessa. However, in the next declaration, these assets disappeared along with his wife, who later published the interiors of a new apartment in the elite complex "Marinist Residence" in Odessa on social networks. A few months before the official divorce, the apartment was registered in the name of the wife's father, which could not have been purchased based on the father's official income. Sharonov stated in a comment that he did not participate in the purchase of the apartment.
The investigation raises questions about the transparency of income and the legality of large expenditures by relatives of high-ranking officials in Ukraine's law enforcement agencies.
