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More than six years ago, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced the dismissal of the then head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration without explaining the reasons. At the time it was about Andriy Balon, who was detained by the NABU along with an accomplice on suspicion of taking a bribe.
At the moment his office was searched, Andriy Balon was in Kyiv and during the meeting he insisted that he did not know what was happening in Kropyvnytskyi. However, apparently just in case he messaged the then first deputy head of the Office of the President, Serhii Trofimov, and his longtime classmate Oleh Tatarov.
In 2022 the case stalled because Andriy Balon, as a serviceman, could no longer attend hearings. True, his traces in the first months after mobilization lead to Drohobych in the Lviv region. Later he became an associate professor and lecturer at Kherson University and even managed to enter the defense sector with the company Krylati, a brand for strike drones and 150 million hryvnias in annual revenue.
Read more about the new life and the old case of the former head of the Kirovohrad RSA in the article.
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