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The NACP found signs of illicit enrichment worth 24,8 million UAH in the administrator of the Tyachiv MIA Service Center No. 2143, Denys Shymon. His wife registered a spa hotel of 617 square meters, and the family withdrew foreign currency abroad more than a thousand times.
The editorial team of 368.media learned this from the agency’s full audit of the official’s declaration for the year 2024.
Shymon has been in the internal affairs bodies since 2005, and in the police since 2015. On 2 March 2021 he became deputy head of the police department for preventive activities of the Rakhiv district police station, with the rank of captain. On 15 March 2022 he resigned. From 20 July 2022 he has been working at the MIA service center in Zakarpattia.
Official income according to the tax authority from 1998 to 2021 was 1,3 million UAH. His wife’s income for the same period was 130,5 thousand UAH. In his declaration for 2021 he already reported 900 thousand UAH in cash, the wife — 775 thousand. The NACP writes: such amounts cannot be explained by official salaries and car sales.
Spa outside the village of Danylovo
On 20 February 2020 his father, Vasyl Vasylovych Shymon, voluntarily transferred to the state a plot of land of 1 879 sq. m outside the village of Danylovo in the Baylovo tract. That same year the land was obtained by his daughter-in-law, Anna. On 28 July 2020 she became a sole proprietor: bakery, rental, hotels, cars, furniture. The next day the father-in-law established Damarito s.r.o. in the Czech Republic with a registered capital of 1 000 crowns — real estate management and construction.
On 20 July 2022 the wife filed a notice of commencement of construction of a spa complex “by own means.” The estimate was 7 687 525 UAH. In October 2023 she declared it ready, and in July 2024 she registered ownership: a spa hotel of 617,5 sq. m and a bathhouse of 28,4 sq. m. In the husband’s declaration the hotel is listed at 6,7 million UAH, the bathhouse at 311 thousand.
The wife told the NACP that her parents helped. The agency checked their incomes and did not accept their explanation as the source for the entire property.
Card tourism that doesn’t add up
Over the 2022–2024 years the family routed 22,3 million UAH through accounts from unidentified sources. They withdrew 13,08 million UAH abroad. The difference — 9,22 million — Shymon called profit from exchange rate differences.
The NACP calculated NBU limits: 12,5 thousand UAH per week. To export 13 million, the wife and relatives would have needed at least 1 046 transactions. Banks confirmed this. The market margin for “card tourism” at the time was 5–10%. Even at 10% of turnover, the maximum “dirty” profit is 1,31 million UAH. To earn 9,22 million on withdrawals of 13 million, profitability would have to be 70,5%. The agency writes that this does not occur.
NACP’s conclusion: this is smurfing — splitting large sums to avoid the financial monitoring threshold. The ultimate beneficiary is Shymon himself: most accounts are in his name, the lion’s share of cash flowed to them, and from 2020 everyone — the wife, her parents, his parents — moved toward one goal: the spa and exporting the money abroad.
What was not explained
The agency calculated assets acquired over 2022–2024 years as follows: 22,3 million UAH in cash circulation plus the spa by estimate 7,69 million. Together almost 30 million UAH. The family’s and the wife’s parents’ lawful income from 1998 to 2024 was 5,18 million UAH. The difference is 24,81 million UAH. The threshold in Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code is 6 500 tax-free minimums; in 2025 this is about 9,8 million UAH. This threshold is covered by 24,8 million.
The NACP did not establish where exactly the cash taken abroad is held. Of the 9,22 million that remained in Ukraine, 1,71 million were withdrawn from accounts, 7,51 million were written off as “living needs.” The agency did not find a link between these 7,51 million and the spa’s construction. It did not identify signs of unjustified assets in the sense of civil confiscation.
The NACP recorded signs of illicit enrichment in a separate conclusion. Whether the material will go to NABU or the State Bureau of Investigation is not stated in the report. Shymon explained the audit as exchange-rate differences and help from relatives. The agency rejected these explanations.
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