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NAZK found signs of illegal enrichment by TSC MVS head Shymon in Zakarpattia totaling nearly 25 million hryvnias
The administrator of TSC MVS No.2143 in Zakarpattia, Denys Shymon, was audited over the origin of his assets and financial transactions. NAZK identified signs of illegal enrichment amounting to 24,81 million hryvnias: the official’s family built a spa-hotel worth millions and carried out large-scale cash foreign-currency operations abroad.
This is stated in NAZK’s audit materials.
Shymon has worked in the MVS system since 2005, and since 2015 he served in the police. 2 March 2021 he became deputy head of the police prevention department of the Rakhiv district police department and held the rank of captain. After the start of the full-scale invasion he resigned. And already 20 July 2022 he began working at the MVS service center in Zakarpattia.
Questions arose about the family’s declared income. According to the tax authority, in the period from 1998 to 2021 Shymon officially received 1,3 million hryvnias. His wife’s income for the same period was only 130,5 thousand hryvnias.
At the same time, in the declaration for 2021 Shymon already indicated 900 thousand hryvnias in cash, and his wife another 775 thousand hryvnias. NAZK noted that it was not possible to explain such savings solely by official salaries and car sales.
Spa-hotel on land that changed ownership
A separate story is the construction of a spa complex in the village of Danylovo.
20 February 2020 Shymon’s father, Vasyl Vasylovych Shymon, voluntarily transferred to the state a plot of land of 1 879 square meters in the Baylovo tract near Danylovo. That same year the land was obtained by his daughter-in-law, Anna.
28 July 2020 she registered as a sole proprietor. Among her business activities were bread, rentals, hotels, automobiles, and furniture.
The next day Anna’s father founded the Czech company Damarito s.r.o. with a share capital of 1 000 krona. The company’s main activities became real estate management and construction.
20 July 2022 Shymon’s wife reported the start of construction of the spa complex “using her own resources.” The declared estimate was 7,69 million hryvnias.
In October 2023 she declared the completion of construction, and in July 2024 she formalized ownership. Thus the family acquired a spa-hotel of 617,5 square meters and a bathhouse of 28,4 square meters.
In Shymon’s declaration the hotel’s value is listed at 6,7 million hryvnias, the bathhouse at 311 thousand hryvnias.
Asked about the source of the funds, the official’s wife explained that her parents helped her. However, NAZK checked their incomes and did not consider this explanation sufficient to confirm the origin of funds for the entire project.
Millions through cards and 1 046 operations
Even more questions for NAZK arose because of the family’s financial transactions in 2022–2024.
During this period 22,3 million hryvnias from unknown sources passed through accounts. Abroad the family withdrew 13,08 million hryvnias in cash.
Shymon explained the difference of 9,22 million hryvnias as profit from exchange-rate differences.
However, NAZK’s calculations did not support this version.
The agency took into account the NBU limits established at 12,5 thousand hryvnias per week. To carry out operations totaling more than 13 million hryvnias, Shymon’s wife and her relatives would have needed at least 1 046 transactions. Banks confirmed that such operations were conducted.
And here the math simply doesn’t add up for the “profit from exchange rates” explanation.
According to NAZK, the market margin in so-called “card tourism” operations at the time was about 5–10%. Even using the maximum margin of 10%, turnover of 13,08 million hryvnias could yield no more than 1,31 million hryvnias in profit.
Instead, Shymon claimed 9,22 million hryvnias originated from exchange-rate differences. To earn that amount on 13 million hryvnias of withdrawn cash, the required profitability would have to be 70,5%.
That is why NAZK did not accept the official’s explanation.
The agency believes the scheme showed signs of so-called smurfing — splitting large sums into numerous operations to avoid triggering financial-monitoring systems.
According to NAZK’s findings, the ultimate beneficiary of the funds’ movement was Shymon himself. The largest number of accounts were registered to him, and the main portion of cash flowed into his accounts.
From 2020 the transactions involved Shymon’s wife, her parents, and his parents. The agency estimates that the movement of funds and assets was ultimately related to two directions — construction of the spa complex and moving money abroad.
24,81 million hryvnias the family could not explain
NAZK separately compared the family’s assets and incomes for 2022–2024.
Cash turnover amounted to 22,3 million hryvnias, and construction of the spa complex according to the estimate cost another 7,69 million hryvnias. In total this is nearly 30 million hryvnias.
At the same time, the family’s and the wife’s parents’ cumulative lawful income for the period from 1998 to 2024 amounted to 5,18 million hryvnias.
The difference is 24,81 million hryvnias.
It is this amount that NAZK recorded as showing signs of illegal enrichment.
The agency could not establish where part of the cash the family took abroad is located. Of the 9,22 million hryvnias that remained in Ukraine, 1,71 million hryvnias were withdrawn from accounts. Another 7,51 million hryvnias were written off as funds for “living needs.”
At the same time NAZK did not establish a link between these 7,51 million hryvnias and the construction of the spa complex. The agency also did not find signs of unjustified assets in the sense of civil confiscation procedure.
However, NAZK recorded signs of illegal enrichment in a separate conclusion.
Shymon explained the origin of the funds by exchange-rate differences and financial help from relatives. NAZK rejected these explanations.
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NAZK found signs of illegal enrichment by TSC MVS head Shymon in Zakarpattia totaling nearly 25 million hryvnias
NAZK found signs of illegal enrichment by TSC MVS head Shymon in Zakarpattia totaling nearly 25 million hryvnias
NAZK found signs of illegal enrichment by TSC MVS head Shymon in Zakarpattia totaling nearly 25 million hryvnias
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