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NACU detected unlawful enrichment of more than 24 million hryvnias by a TSC MVS official in Transcarpathia, Shimon.
The administrator of TSC MVS No. 2143 in Transcarpathia, Denys Shimon, was exposed for illegal enrichment in the amount of 24,8 million hryvnias.
The wife set up a spa-hotel, and the family withdrew funds abroad more than a thousand times.
Shimon has worked in internal affairs since 2005 year, and in the police since 2015. On 2 March 2021 he became deputy head of the police department for preventive activities in the Rahiv district police department (captain). After the full-scale invasion began, he immediately resigned. Since 20 July 2022 he has been at the Service Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Transcarpathia.
According to the tax authorities, his official income from 1998 to 2021 year was 1,3 million hryvnias, and his wife's — only 130,5 thousand hryvnias. In the declaration for 2021 year he had already declared 900 thousand hryvnias in cash, his wife — 775 thousand. NACU notes that such sums could not accumulate only from salaries and car sales.
Spa complex near the village of Danylovo.
20 February 2020 year, Shimon’s father, Vasyl Vasylovych, voluntarily transferred to the state a plot of 1 879 square meters in the village of Danylovo (Baylovo tract). In the same year the land was registered in the name of his daughter-in-law Anna. 28 July 2020-th she registered as a private entrepreneur (activity: bread, rental, hotels, cars, furniture). The next day father-in-law founded in the Czech Republic a company Damarito s.r.o. with authorized capital 1 000 koruna (real estate management and construction).
20 July 2022 year wife filed a notice of the start of construction of the spa complex “with own forces” with an estimate of 7,69 million hryvnias. In October 2023-th she declared completion of works, and in July 2024-th she registered ownership: a spa-hotel with an area of 617,5 sq. m and a bathhouse of 28,4 sq. m. In the husband’s declaration the hotel is valued at 6,7 million hryvnias, the bathhouse at 311 thousand.
The wife claimed that the funds were provided by her parents. NACU checked their income and did not recognize it as a source of funds for the entire project.
Card tourism that does not add up.
From 2022 to 2024 years the family processed through accounts 22,3 million hryvnias from unidentified sources. Abroad they withdrew 13,08 million hryvnias. Shimon explained the difference of 9,22 million hryvnias by exchange rate differences.
NACU considered NBUs limits (12,5 thousand hryvnias per week). To withdraw 13 million hryvnias, his wife and relatives would have needed to make at least 1 046 transactions — banks confirmed this. The market margin of “card tourism” at that time was 5–10 %. Even at 10 % turnover, the maximum “dirty” profit would be 1,31 million hryvnias. To obtain 9,22 million hryvnias of profit from withdrawn 13 million, profitability would have to reach 70,5 %, which, according to the agency, is impossible.
NACU qualified this as smarfing — splitting large sums to avoid financial monitoring thresholds. The ultimate beneficiary was identified as Shimon himself: he has the largest number of accounts, and the bulk of cash came into his accounts. Since 2020 year the whole family (wife, her parents, and his parents) acted with one goal — construction of the spa and money laundering abroad.
What they could not explain.
NACU assessed assets acquired from 2022–2024 years as follows: 22,3 million in cash flow and a spa complex priced at 7,69 million. In total — nearly 30 million. Legitimate incomes of the family and the wife’s parents from 1998-2024 year amounted to 5,18 million. The difference — 24,81 million.
The agency did not establish where exactly the cash kept abroad is. Of 9,22 million, 1,71 million left in Ukraine were withdrawn from accounts, and 7,51 million were written off as “household needs.” No link was found between these 7,51 million and spa construction. NACU did not record signs of unjustified assets in the sense of civil confiscation.
Signs of unlawful enrichment were recorded by the agency in a separate conclusion. Whether the material will be referred to NABU or DBR is not indicated in the report. Shimon explained the source of funds by exchange rate differences and help from relatives, but NACU rejected these explanations.
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