Former head of the South-Eastern Interregional Territorial Department of ARMA and ex-prosecutor Mykola Klyantsko filed a declaration that raises more questions than it answers. Despite official income, his family owns luxury real estate and expensive cars, which may indicate possible corruption schemes.
Kliantsko declared a number of real estate properties, mostly in Odessa, which seems logical given his actual place of residence in that city. Among them are two parking spaces with an area of 23 sq m and 18 sq m, purchased back in 2008. The cost is not specified, which may indicate the antiquity of the purchase or an unwillingness to disclose details.
The man indicated a residential building of 187.3 sq. m, purchased in 2011. Interestingly, Klyantsko only has the right of residence, and the owner is citizen Tetyana Olegivna Klyantsko (a relative). The cost is also not specified.
The official also had a 41 sq. m apartment owned by Natalia Yaroshenko (listed as “other connection”) from 2015 and another 45 sq. m apartment purchased by Yaroshenko in 2021 for UAH 889,000.
In addition, in 2024, the official acquired an apartment of 53.4 sq m for 1 million hryvnias, registered to Iryna Pylypchuk, but with a note about "signs of Part 3 of Article 46 of the Law of Ukraine 'On Prevention of Corruption'" - this may hint that Klyantsko has actual control over the object.
An interesting point: the 187.3 sq.m. house is also mentioned as an object with the right of “registration and residence” for Natalia Yaroshenko. The question arises - are the objects not duplicated in the declaration to create the appearance of transparency? And why does a high-ranking official who fought corruption not have his own housing, but only the right of use?
The declaration mentions two Audi A8 cars (2015 and 2024), purchased in the respective years for UAH 2.42 million and UAH 4.49 million, registered to Yaroshenko.
These cars are impressive in their value, especially considering that Klyantsky's official salary for 2024 was only UAH 264,000. He also indicated receiving UAH 2.05 million from the sale of movable property to Yevgenia Hess and UAH 500,000 from the sale of movable property to Roman Humenyuk (received by Yaroshenko).
Yaroshenko added another 2.38 million hryvnias from entrepreneurship. In total, more than 5 million hryvnias per family. However, the declaration does not specify what exactly was sold for 2.55 million hryvnias. Could it have been vehicles, for example, the same 2015 Audi A8, which was later replaced with a new one?
Klyantsko holds UAH 1.03 million in cash, and Yaroshenko has UAH 100,000. He also lent Iryna Pylypchuk over UAH 1 million, an amount that matches the cost of the 53.4 sq m apartment. This looks like an attempt to hide assets through a formal transfer of funds.
Kliantsko's declaration leaves more questions than answers. Housing registered to relatives or "other connections", expensive cars, loans worth millions, and income from unspecified "movable property" - all this looks like a classic set for a NACP investigation. Was Kliantsko a corruption fighter who himself found himself under question? Only more detailed checks can provide the answer.
Previously, Mykola Klyantsko was the deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. He built corruption schemes in government positions (head of the department of human rights protection, combating corruption and crime in the transport sector of the Odessa region prosecutor's office, deputy prosecutor of the Odessa region, head of the Kyiv interregional department of Ukrtransbezpeka, etc.). He is a confidant of Volodymyr Orlov, the former deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, who was detained for taking a bribe of $200,000.
