The head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the State Migration Service in the Odessa region was declared suspicion of an article on false declaration. According to the investigation, he did not indicate a number of valuable property and cash in the annual declaration for 2023, but instead increased the cost of cryptocurrency to create the illusion of "pure" wealth.
According to the Prosecutor General's office, the official intentionally did not declare a residential building of 200 m², a land of more than 6 acres, a Mercedes-Benz G400D car, a cash worth more than UAH 11 million and other valuable property.
Moreover, he deliberately introduced the Bitcoin cryptocurrency declaration, estimating it at almost 58 million hryvnias - which, according to law enforcement, is not true. The investigation believes that in this way he tried to artificially increase the declared assets of his family, hiding real sources of wealth.
The total difference between real and declared wealth exceeds UAH 83 million. The official has now been dismissed.
Investigations are conducted by prosecutors in cooperation with investigators of the DBR termination in Nikolaev, SBU staff in Odessa region, units of internal security of the National Police and NAPC specialists.
