After receiving new data from NABU, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption re-checked the declaration for 2022 of the former head of the State Registration Department of the Central-Western Interregional Department of the Ministry of Justice (Khmelnytskyi).
The check showed that the former head of the Khmelnytskyi region did not declare more than 534.4 thousand US dollars (equivalent to more than 19.5 million UAH at the NBU exchange rate at the end of 2022). These funds were in an account in an Austrian bank opened in her name. Formally, they belonged to her husband, the former head of the Pension Fund of the Khmelnytskyi region.
Previously, the NACP had already identified signs of illicit enrichment in his declaration amounting to over UAH 19 million and the submission of false information in the amount of more than UAH 44 million.
Based on these materials, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau initiated a pre-trial investigation under Part 2 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (declaration of false information).
In addition, during the inspection, the NACP discovered violations in the declarations of a deputy of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council, who heads the municipal institution "Khmelnytskyi Regional Center for Medical and Sanitary Expertise" and is a close person of the former head of state. The amount of inaccurate information in her documents exceeds UAH 34.8 million.
At the same time, it is emphasized that according to the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is presumed innocent of committing a crime until proven guilty in court.
