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8 July on the grounds of the sports complex of the National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine the final mini-football matches took place among prosecutors from various regions of Ukraine for the “Prosecutor General of Ukraine Cup.” Journalists from the program “Our Money with Denys Bihus” recorded prosecutors arriving at the football matches in cars belonging to friends and closest relatives: grandmothers, mothers-in-law, and wives. They also recorded official and undeclared vehicles.
Prosecutor of the GPU Serhiy Pavchuk arrived at the competition in a Mercedes-Benz ML 320. The Mercedes is registered to 66-year-old Anhelina Donchenko from Yaremche and is not listed in the prosecutor’s declaration. Of immovable property, Pavchuk declared only the use of a room of 16 sq. m., which belongs to the GPU.
Another GPU prosecutor, Oleksandr Mitla, arrived at the football match in a Lexus GX 470. The car is declared, but it does not belong to the prosecutor. In a comment to “Our Money” journalists, Mitla said a friend gave him the SUV so that the prosecutor would look after the vehicle:
He wanted to sell it, and I said: give it to me. I’ll use it, take care of it. He said: no problem. He has three or four of them.
The owner of the Lexus that the prosecutor drives is an ex-businessman who has left all the firms he owned.
Deputy prosecutor of Kyiv region Yaroslav Bendyk came to support the team in a Volkswagen Touareg. The car is registered to his 72-year-old mother-in-law, Mariya Luk’ianenko. The woman is registered as a sole proprietor engaged in retail trade from stalls and at markets. The family has no other business. It is likely that this retail trade helped the prosecutor’s mother-in-law buy her son-in-law both the Volkswagen Touareg and a house near Kyiv of 360 sq. m., which the prosecutor also uses. Avtomaydan previously showed this house.
Another deputy of the head prosecutor of Kyiv region, Ihor Hrabets, arrived in his wife’s Lexus 350. His wife is Economic Court judge Svitlana Hrabets.
Head of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office department Vasyl Smityukh arrived at the football match in an INFINITI M35. The car is not listed in the declaration, and its owner is the prosecutor’s brother, former MP from the Party of Regions Hryhoriy Smityukh. During the matches, journalists recorded the prosecutor consuming beer. Afterwards, already intoxicated, he got behind the wheel.
Earlier the program “Our Money with Denys Bihus” reported how Smityukh and his family received several land plots in Zhulyany. This land was 2010 year seized by the SBU in a case concerning the illegal allocation of plots to families of judges, prosecutors, and police officers.
In addition to Zhulyany, the prosecutor also received land in Koncha-Zaspa. Specifically, for the plot in the elite area the prosecutor himself, his brother — the ex-deputy — their wives, and other relatives are listed.
The chief prosecutor of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional prosecutor’s office, Oleksandr Stratiuk, came to support his subordinates in a Lincoln Navigator.
The vehicle was purchased at the beginning of 2018 year and registered to the prosecutor’s wife. In addition to the Lincoln, this year she became the owner of a three-room apartment in a new building in Ivano-Frankivsk and a Toyota. And she earned for the entire 2017 year — less than one minimum wage — 3200 UAH.
Journalists recorded the chief prosecutor of Kyiv region Dmytro Chibisov in an official vehicle. In an interview with journalists the prosecutor said that a friend gave him a ride to the football match and that the car was not official but “ordinary”:
What did you come here in today?
In an ordinary car.
Yours?
Yes.
Official?
No, ours.
Yours?
No, well I don’t have one myself. I was given a ride.
Who?
Let’s see now… I have an employee… Who drives… He gave me a ride, he lives near me.
So, not an official car?
No.
Prosecutors from the Prosecutor General’s Office, Zhytomyr region, and the Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Kyiv also arrived in official vehicles.
First deputy of Yuriy Lutsenko, Dmytro Storozhuk, in a comment to journalists also said he arrived in an official car:
In an official car. I am on duty for the prosecutor’s office today, so… I came… I have a working day today.
However, journalists recorded Dmytro Storozhuk getting into a car registered to the company LLC “Commodity Exchange ‘Autokom’.”
This company was declared bankrupt by the commercial court of Kyiv region back in 2011 year. According to the register of individuals and legal entities, the firm’s activity has been terminated. In the company’s ownership “Autokom” there are neither cars nor real estate. This was discovered by the company’s liquidator during the bankruptcy procedure. He filed a report to the court stating that the firm had no money, no financial-accounting documentation, and no movable or immovable property.
Until 2011 year the co-owners of “Autokom” included the Industrial-Investment Holding “Bohdan,” which at that time was part of the Bohdan automotive corporation structure of Petro Poroshenko, Ihor Kononenko and Oleh Hladkovsky. Now Poroshenko is president, Kononenko is an MP, and Hladkovsky is in the Secretariat of the National Security and Defense Council. The Industrial-Investment Holding “Bohdan” was transferred to Hladkovsky’s son Ihor.
In response to journalists’ requests regarding the official vehicles used by Dmytro Storozhuk, the GPU did not provide an answer, citing the law “On Operative-Investigative Activity.”
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