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Over the course of the year, members of the Verkhovna Rada go to work in the Ukrainian session hall and make decisions crucial to the country’s life. But when it comes to resting after their labors, they usually travel abroad, and some even own real estate there. Deputies’ houses on the French Riviera and the golden sands of Spain were counted by analysts of the “Declarations” project.
The record holder by number and total area of foreign real estate turned out to be member of parliament from the Opposition Bloc party Vadym Novynskyi. He and his family own about 6 hectares of land and 5 apartments with a total area of 996,3 sq. m in Russia. Also on the territory of our northern neighbor Novynskyi owns a 453-meter non-residential premises, a 79-meter garage and an unfinished residential building of unknown area.
Three land plots, two villas with areas of 1056 and 337 sq. m in France and 332-meter apartments in Greece are registered to companies whose beneficiary is Yuliya Lyovochkina. Similar Greek apartments through her Cypriot offshore BROVE HOLDINGS LIMITED are owned by her brother Serhiy Lyovochkin. He also declared use of his sister’s 1056-meter villa on the French Riviera. The latter is estimated at 40 million euros in value, but it is currently under arrest by a French court.
15 sotkas of land and a 459-meter retail-office building in Latvia are owned by the wife and daughter of the bronze medalist of our ranking – parliamentarian Yaroslav Dubnevych. A 270-meter house and 16 sotkas of land in Germany were declared by the scandal-plagued MP Boryslav Rozenblat.
Closing the top-5 of the ranking is first deputy of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Ihor Kononenko. A 539-meter house in Spain is registered to his firm Treck Holding Coast S.L. The MP also declared apartments of unknown area in France, which are rented by his daughter Olga, who studies there at one of the world’s most prestigious fashion and design institutes – Istituto Marangoni.
MP Oleksandr Hereka and his wife also have their own house with an area of 455 sq. m in Spain. MPs Yevhen Rybchynskyi and Maksym Yefimov, for their part, prefer the United States of America. The first declared there a 450-meter house held in his wife’s right of use, and the second owns a 279-meter apartment and another 117-meter apartment is under construction.
Four apartments and a garage in Bulgaria were declared by MP from the Revival party and concurrently head of the Association of Bulgarians in Ukraine Anton Kisse. And closing the top-10 finalists is MP Ruslan Demchak, whose wife has rented a 355-meter house in the United Kingdom for three consecutive years.
The most popular country by number of properties turned out to be Russia – there elected officials own 13 real estate objects. 11 of them belong to the aforementioned MP Novynskyi, and another 220-meter apartment and parking space are owned there by the wife of the Opposition Bloc faction leader Yuriy Boiko.
In second place by popularity was France (9 real estate objects), and third was Bulgaria (6 objects). Next come Spain and the USA. In those countries deputies declared 5 objects each. In total in 2017, 24 elected officials indicated in their declarations 55 real estate objects in 15 foreign countries.
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