Errors of ₴43 million were found in the declarations of officials in Odesa

Serhii Gupyak spoke about the declarations of Odessa officials. Photo: Public. Odessa

In Odesa, inaccuracies and errors totaling 43 million hryvnias were found in the declarations of officials.

Deputy head of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption Serhii Hupiak reported this, Suspilne.Odesa reports.

He noted that 44 inspections out of 68 planned were carried out at the NAPC. Thus, in four declarations, the officials could not explain the origin of funds for almost 16 million hryvnias.

Most of the violations were recorded among local self-government deputies, as well as officials of the customs, tax, and migration services.

«The composition of subjects is quite different, but most of them are local self-government deputies. Then there are customs, tax spheres, the migration service, and then there is one example from other spheres,» Hupiak explained.

The deputy head of NAPC also reported on the agency's work on a new five-year anti-corruption strategy.

«It is clear that the society expects and now there is a request for exposure, for planting, for resonance. But NAPC is about something else. It's about how to lay the mechanisms that will reduce corruption in the state in the long term,» he said.

We will remind that as of mid-September, Ukrainian officials submitted more than 1.2 million declarations. Half of the documents were filled out with violations, and errors were found in a third.

Previously, NikVesti reported that the NAPC recorded an unreliable declaration of cryptocurrency in the declaration of a Mykolaiv official for 148 million hryvnias.

We will remind you that earlier Mykolaiv region was among the top regions where the NACP found the most signs of violations in the declarations of officials.

What is in the declarations of Mykolaiv officials for 2023?

We will remind that the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitalii Kim declared that he owns six apartments and two cars, and together with his wife keeps more than 95 thousand dollars and 500 thousand hryvnias in cash.

At the same time, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, submitted a declaration of income and property for 2023: he received 678 thousand hryvnias in salary, and his wife purchased three types of cryptocurrency.

Councilors of Mykolaiv city mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych declared their incomes for the past year — last year each of them earned almost more than 300 thousand hryvnias in wages.

Also, the heads of factions of the Mykolayiv City Council made public their savings and property for 2023 in their annual declarations. No significant changes have been observed among the officials, but during this time some of them purchased real estate, transport and received financial assistance.

The declarations were also published by the deputy heads of the Mykolaiv RMA, the deputy heads of the Kherson RMA and the deputy mayors of Mykolaiv. In particular, the first deputy mayor Vitalii Lukov indicated in the declaration for 2023 that he received 31,629 hryvnias for speaking at an online lecture in Berlin.

According to the declaration for 2023, the First Deputy Chairman of the Mykolaiv Regional Council, Anton Tabunshchik, received 862,000 wages. On average, it is 72 thousand hryvnias per month.

The mayor of Voznesensk, Yevhenii Velychko, and the mayor of Pervomaisk, Oleh Demchenko, also published their declarations. The mayor of Voznesensk declared 515,000 hryvnias of wages, and the May Day — 1.7 million hryvnias of wages and a NISSAN X-TRAIL car for 10,000 hryvnias.

And the head of the Snihurivka city military administration, Ivan Kukhta, declared 14 hectares of land, four cars and $110,000 in cash.

We will remind that the people's deputies from the «Servant of the People» faction, which represent the interests of residents of the Mykolaiv region in the Verkhovna Rada, submitted declarations about their incomes for 2023.