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❓ Could Faliush really have enriched himself so much from building the Crimean Bridge?
325 thousands of dollars in cash, apartments, houses, plots of land, expensive cars, and property in occupied Crimea. And all of this — declared assets of the family of the deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi OVA, Vladyslav Faliush, who has become a figure in a criminal case concerning corruption in road contracts. According to the investigation, Faliush and the head of the Local Roads Service allegedly received 5% of the value of road contracts. The total amount of the alleged illicit gain is almost 1,1 million UAH.
According to the declaration for 2025 year, Faliush keeps 270 thousand dollars in cash, and his wife another 55 thousand. Together — 325 thousand dollars. In addition, the official declared two apartments of 157,5 m² and 463,9 m², shares in two houses in Kyrylivka, plots of land, parking spaces, a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Nissan X-Trail, and a jet ski. And also — two unfinished apartments in occupied Hurzuf.
At the same time, his official salary for 2025 year amounted to about 992 thousand hryvnias, and his wife's income to approximately 659 thousand.
The question arises: where did such savings come from and what role did the road business play in forming the family's capital?
Back in May 2021, the Center for Journalistic Investigations published a piece “Roads of Corruption: who connects Crimea and Khmelnytskyi?” which detailed the Faliush family's business ties to occupied Crimea. In particular, the official’s father, Valeriy Faliush, after the occupation of the peninsula became the founder and beneficiary of a company registered under Russian jurisdiction, OOO “Krym Magistral Stroy.” In just 2017 year that company received 37 road contracts from occupation structures for a total of about 1,13 billion rubles.
But the most interesting part is the Kerch Bridge. According to journalists, the construction equipment used by Valeriy Faliush’s company was involved in work related to the construction of the illegal Kerch Bridge. And here Vladyslav Faliush appears directly.
Journalists established that the equipment belonged to the Ukrainian LLC “Dniproprom-M,” whose beneficiaries included Vladyslav Faliush himself, his mother Nataliya, and relative Andriy Telesay. Moreover, Vladyslav remained a beneficiary of the company until April 2021, when he had already begun a career in the state road structure of Khmelnytskyi region.
And that’s not all. In October 2014, already after the Russian occupation of Crimea, Vladyslav Faliush together with his mother and sister registered in Alushta under Russian jurisdiction OOO “Zolotaya seredyna” with a charter capital of 9,26 million rubles.
So this is not simply property that remained on occupied territory, but the involvement of Faliush himself in business registered under Russian law after the occupation, and the ties of family companies to road works on the peninsula.
And after all this Faliush did not simply enter public service. He headed Khmelnytskyi’s road structure and later became deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration. Now, with the official under investigation for alleged kickbacks on road contracts, a perfectly reasonable question arises: could Faliush really have enriched himself so much from building the Crimean Bridge and road contracts in occupied Crimea?
Question: did law enforcement check the family's possible income from Crimean business, its origin, and whether taxes were paid to the aggressor state's budget?
And most importantly — how could a person with such a publicly known business past hold senior government positions for years and ultimately become deputy head of the regional military administration?
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