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The media drew attention to the declaration and property ties of the deputy head of the Police Protection Department — head of the Physical Protection Directorate, Vitaliy Bondarenko. Open data and journalists' publications raise questions about the origin of certain assets, the use of expensive real estate near Kyiv, substantial cash savings, and property that previously belonged to the official’s family. A separate set of questions concerns his professional past in the MREO service centers system and possible connections with business representatives in the driver training sector. We present the relevant article from the publication Komentari.
Security officers are increasingly becoming participants in high-profile scandals during the war. Some are linked to “shadow offices” that control entire sectors of the Ukrainian economy. Others cannot explain their sources of income. The subject of this investigation is the deputy head of the Protection Department of the National Police of Ukraine — head of the Physical Protection Directorate, Vitaliy Bondarenko. From MREO protection to a scandal catching up With Forensics, but the scandal caught up You can find information online that the current head of the Capital Physical Protection Directorate, Vitaliy Bondarenko, may be connected to a whole network of driving schools that enjoy the patronage of a high-ranking police officer. One might ask, how could the head of a unit that protects state and private facilities, property, and public and private individuals — Vitaliy Bondarenko — possibly help driving schools?! Meanwhile, 50-year-old Vitaliy Viktorovych Bondarenko is new to the field of physical protection, though by no means a newcomer to the law enforcement system. He was transferred to the capital to serve as chief of physical protection relatively recently — in 2024, and before that he worked at the Regional Service Center of the Main Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Poltava region. In simple terms, the future head of the capital’s physical protection served in the MREO system in a region where heads of these service centers were detained while receiving bribes. Thus, Vitaliy Bondarenko knew the specifics of MREO work and, say, driving schools very well. Especially since, according to his declaration for 2017, his then-wife Oksana Leontiivna owned 50% of LLC "Driving School 'Akord Kyiv'" (activity — driver training schools, charter capital — 500 hryvnias). According to some sources, LLC "Driving School 'Akord Kyiv'", from which Bondarenko’s first wife withdrew as a founder, is linked to a network of driving schools and sole proprietors registered to other people. According to the analytical service YouControl, "Akord Kyiv" belongs to Yevhen Stepanov, and the company’s director is former tax official Yuriy Kalysh. At the same time, Yuriy Kalysh is the registered owner of PE "Indikar" (activity — driver training schools, charter capital — 1000 hryvnias). Journalists also report that three identical individual entrepreneurs (KVED 85.53 — driver training schools) are registered to both company owners and their relatives. Journalists note that, judging by phone verification services, the phones of several businessmen and Vitaliy Bondarenko are often connected with each other and with MREO, which indirectly indicates their ties. The head of Kyiv’s physical protection — a head almost like a hawk, not counting tens of thousands of dollars in cash According to the income and asset declaration for 2025, not much is recorded in Vitaliy Bondarenko’s name. Essentially, his entire asset is about 55 sotkas of land and a residential house of 96 square meters in one of the villages of his native Vinnytsia region. Judging by a single date of acquisition of ownership rights — 23 August 2019, he inherited all this after the death of the last parent. Bondarenko does not have a personal car but may use his wife Oksana Bondarenko’s car — a NISSAN QASHQAI 2021 year of manufacture, purchased in 2025 for 622 thousand hryvnias. Note that such a purchase is quite affordable for the couple, who, through Vitaliy’s service in the police and Oksana’s in the prosecutor’s office, earned 2 million 280 thousand hryvnias. However, in cash assets Vitaliy Bondarenko exceeds his wife — 37 thousand dollars and 2149 hryvnias versus Oksana Bondarenko’s 12 thousand dollars, 8000 euros and 971 hryvnias. The origin of the money is fairly clear — in 2020 Vitaliy Viktorovych sold a CLAAS LEXION 580 combine for 948 thousand hryvnias, which he received along with the land and house on 23 August 2019. Note that such a price equals 35 thousand dollars when sold in 2020 and seems realistic, but where a relative of the cop got a combine that new costs from 100 thousand dollars is a mystery. Until 2025, Bondarenko declared more than 1 million hryvnias in cash, but apparently this year he exchanged his hryvnia cash for 37 thousand dollars. A house worth 300 thousand dollars owned by a realtor sister As is not hard to understand, the head of Kyiv’s Physical Protection Directorate needs to live near his place of service, and the house he owns of 100 square meters in a village in Vinnytsia region simply does not suit that. According to the declaration, Vitaliy Bondarenko and his family may reside in a residential house of 286 square meters on a plot of 1527 square meters that belong to Tetyana Viktorivna Bondarenko. Judging by the patronymic similarity, this is the officer’s sister. But what is the village of Novi Petrivtsi? Despite its simple name, this place can be considered elite, since the residence of former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych — "Mezhyhirya" — is administratively part of it. That alone is enough to understand how expensive a house in such a place and of that size can be. According to dom.ria, real estate in the village of Novi Petrivtsi similar to Vitaliy Bondarenko’s property (a house of 286 square meters and 15 sotkas of land) can range from 150 thousand dollars (258 square meters house and 12 sotkas of land) to 600 thousand dollars (a house of 300 square meters and 22 sotkas). On average, the cost of such real estate may be at least 300 thousand dollars, but closer to 400–500 thousand. Formally, the owner of the house is, presumably, the colonel’s sister — Tetyana Bondarenko, and Bondarenko has never hidden this fact. In his declaration for 2017, 7 years before his transfer to the capital, he listed the right to reside in this same house, although its owner was recorded as Tetyana Viktorivna Palamarchuk. Considering that the right to reside in housing is granted to close relatives, and the patronymic in Palamarchuk — Viktorivna — matches the colonel’s, it is possible that Tetyana Palamarchuk is the same sister of the cop, Tetyana Bondarenko, whom he listed in later declarations. A name change may be explained by the police officer’s sister having divorced and returned to her maiden name. This could also explain the fact that in the officer’s old declarations Tetyana Palamarchuk owned the house since 2006, while Tetyana Bondarenko owned it since 2024. However, the situation with this house does not become clearer, because the origin of the funds for the purchase of the Novi Petrivtsi house by Vitaliy Bondarenko’s sister remains unclear. According to YouControl, 50-year-old native of Vinnytsia Tetyana Viktorivna Palamarchuk is listed as an individual entrepreneur (activity — real estate agencies). She also owns 50% of PE "Avintura Ukraine Plus" (activity — real estate agencies, charter capital — 500 hryvnias). But the problem is that she opened her individual entrepreneur registration in 2007, and became co-founder of the PE in 2008, i.e., 1 and 2 years respectively after she acquired elite real estate. That is, the origin of funds for the house purchase by the possible sister of the future National Police colonel Vitaliy Bondarenko is completely opaque, since she started her business only after such a valuable acquisition. Recall also the CLAAS LEXION 580 combine, which the cop inherited in 2019 and sold for almost 1 million hryvnias. Where did all this valuable property in his relatives’ possession come from?
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