The Chairman of the Kirovohrad Regional Council, Yuriy Drozd, has arranged expensive gifts for his sons, who hold senior positions in the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB). This was reported by the detective agency ABSolution.
What gifts did you receive?
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On July 25, Yuriy Drozd presented his son Oleksiy, head of the BEB department, with an apartment in Kyiv with an area of 85 sq. m. Its value is estimated at UAH 5 million.
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On July 29, another son of the official, Vitaliy Drozd, who works as a deputy head of the BEB department in Kyiv, received a gift of a residential building in Kropyvnytskyi with an area of almost 300 sq. m. with a land plot. Its cost is about 500 thousand UAH.
Who are the sons of Drozd?
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Vitaliy Drozd is the deputy head of the investigative department of the territorial division of the BEB in Kyiv.
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Oleksiy Drozd is the head of the BEB department.
For comparison, the average salary of managers at BEB in Kyiv is 80–120 thousand UAH per month. That is, the cost of the donated apartment is almost 40 times higher than the average monthly income of an official.
Yuriy Drozd's declaration does not explain the reasons for making such gifts. There is also no information about the sources of funds or financial transactions related to this property.
Lawyers and experts on anti-corruption legislation have previously drawn attention to the fact that the transfer of expensive property to relatives may be subject to scrutiny for compliance with corruption prevention regulations.
