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A manor in Zakarpattia and property in Kyiv worth millions: what does the family of the MP who voted to limit the work of NABU and SAP own?
The family of People’s Deputy from the Dovira group Volodymyr Areshonkov in the summer of 2022 purchased a house of nearly 200 square meters in the village of Vyshkovo in Zakarpattia — at the same time, the family would not have had enough official funds for such a purchase, Schemes found. At that time the market price for similar real estate was up to 100 thousand dollars.
According to the documents, the property became owned by the then 88-year-old mother of the parliamentarian. Over the past more than 20 years her official income (including pension) totaled almost 300 thousand hryvnias. In other words, those funds would not have been sufficient for such a purchase.
Areshonkov explained it this way: “She was a private entrepreneur for 10 years. She sold goods at the market. She had a kiosk.” Journalists were unable to find confirmation of this in open sources.
The deputy also noted that part of the sum for the house was contributed by his daughter, who with her husband has worked in the USA for ten years — although, as Schemes found, they themselves earlier openly wrote on social media about low-paid work abroad, later started business activities there, but from 2021–2022 years both of their American companies have been inactive.
Notably, almost two weeks after journalists’ visit to Zakarpattia the house in Vyshkovo was re-registered to another relative of the deputy, who is the mother-in-law of Vitalii Areshonkov — the parliamentarian’s son, who works at the Bureau of Economic Security.
In detail about how the family of the People’s Deputy acquired numerous assets without sufficient official income — in the new investigation by Schemes.