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The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), based on an audit of the declarations and financial operations of the head of the MIA Service Center No. 2143 in Zakarpattia, Denys Shymon, found signs of illegal enrichment totaling 24,81 million UAH. The agency established a mismatch between the family’s lawful income and the scale of financial operations, the construction of a spa complex, and the movement of cash through accounts in the years 2022–2024.
As media report, Shymon has worked in the MIA system since 2005, and since 2015 he has been in the police. In March 2021 he became deputy head of the police department for preventive activity of the Rakhiv District Police Department. After the start of the full-scale invasion he resigned, and on 20 July 2022 he began working at the MIA service center in Zakarpattia. According to the tax authority, from 1998 to 2021 Shymon’s official income amounted to about 1,3 million UAH, and his wife’s to 130,5 thousand UAH. At the same time, in the declaration for 2021 he reported 900 thousand UAH in cash, and his wife listed another 775 thousand UAH. The NACP noted that the presence of such savings could not be fully explained by official income and car transactions. The agency paid particular attention to construction of a spa complex in the village of Danylovo. In 2020 a land plot of 1879 sq. m that belonged to Shymon’s father Vasyl was transferred to the state, after which it was obtained by the official’s daughter‑in‑law, Anna. In July of that year she registered as a private entrepreneur, with activities including hotel services, real estate operations, and car transactions. In July 2022 Shymon’s wife reported the start of construction of the spa complex using her own resources. The declared estimate amounted to 7,69 million UAH. In October 2023 she declared the construction complete, and in July 2024 she registered ownership of a spa hotel of 617,5 sq. m and a bathhouse of 28,4 sq. m. In the declaration the value of the properties is listed as 6,7 million UAH and 311 thousand UAH, respectively. The official’s wife cited financial help from her parents as the source of funds for construction. The NACP checked their incomes and concluded that the explanations provided were insufficient to confirm the origin of the funds necessary to create the entire facility.
Another subject of the audit was the family’s financial operations in the years 2022–2024. According to the NACP, 22,3 million UAH passed through bank accounts from sources the agency could not establish. Abroad the family withdrew 13,08 million UAH in cash. The remaining 9,22 million UAH Shymon explained as profit from exchange rate differences. The NACP did not agree with that version. The agency took into account banking restrictions and determined that to conduct cash operations totaling more than 13 million UAH at least 1046 transactions were carried out. According to the NACP’s assessment, such a structure of operations could have signs of smurfing — splitting large sums into numerous payments. Separately, the agency compared the declared profit with possible earnings from currency operations. By the calculations presented in the conclusion, even a margin of 10% on 13,08 million UAH would have yielded about 1,31 million UAH. In contrast, Shymon attributed 9,22 million UAH to exchange rate differences, which would correspond to a profitability of about 70,5%. The NACP also established that the largest number of accounts through which funds flowed were registered to Shymon, and the main portion of cash was credited to his accounts. The financial operations involved the official’s wife, her parents, and Shymon’s own parents. When reconciling assets, expenditures, and confirmed incomes, the NACP accounted for the construction of the spa complex valued at 7,69 million UAH and financial turnover of 22,3 million UAH. The family’s and the wife’s parents’ total lawful income for the period 1998–2024, according to the agency’s calculations, amounted to 5,18 million UAH. The difference of 24,81 million UAH the NACP identified as the amount for which signs of illegal enrichment were detected. At the same time the agency did not find signs of unjustified assets within the civil confiscation procedure. The NACP also did not establish that 7,51 million UAH, which remained in Ukraine after the operations and were written off as living expenses, were directly used for construction of the spa complex. The NACP did not accept Shymon’s explanations about exchange profits and relatives’ assistance as sufficient to confirm the origin of the funds.
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