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Apartment for 15 hryvnias, 63 thousand dollars in cash and a Tiguan: how the deputy head of Sviatoshyn police Bohdan Zamula enriched himself
Law enforcer or businessman in uniform? The first deputy head of the police department — head of the investigative division of the Sviatoshyn police department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv, Bohdan Zamula — has come into journalists’ focus due to mentions in publications by several independent anti-corruption outlets regarding apartment schemes and alleged abuses. What is known about this official?
This was reported by "StopKor."
According to information available in open sources, Bohdan Zamula holds a leadership position in the investigative unit of the Sviatoshyn district police of the capital, which increases public demand for transparency regarding his integrity and assets.
The online outlets "Kyiv Operative" (kyivoperativ.info) and "Znay.UA" (znaj.ua) in December publications titled "Seizing apartments, organizing van-ification and fabricating criminal cases" suggest: Bohdan Zamula, whom these outlets’ journalists say is allegedly nicknamed "Sosun" and "Zhaba" in close circles, turned his position (quote) "into a profitable business model that he considered completely unpunishable."
Meanwhile, the portal "Antikor" (antikor.ua) in the piece "Zamula’s scheme" publishes a version about involvement in trading evidentiary items from the logistics department.
"Antikor" in the article suggests that the subject, as a participant in the "Sviatoshyn organized crime group," allegedly trades evidentiary items specifically from the police logistics department — referring to a possible channel for selling seized electronics and other materials from criminal proceedings. This information requires separate verification by law enforcement agencies, since it concerns possible destruction of the evidentiary base during investigations.
The "Znay.UA" (znaj.ua) article describes a whole series of suspicious schemes: sale of material evidence, fabrication of criminal cases, illegal appropriation of apartments, participation in "van-ification" schemes and issuing "white tickets" at the Sviatoshyn Territorial Recruitment Center.
The authors of the publication also suggest that 2024 was an especially productive year for the Zamula family: on 11–12 July a condominium in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka worth about 3 million hryvnias appeared in the declaration, another apartment of 80 sq. m was acquired — according to the outlets — for a symbolic 15 hryvnias, a parking space, a house in Vyshhorod district and a plot of land in Ivanivska Hromada.
StopKor compared these publications with Zamula’s official e-declaration for 2025 year, posted on the YouControl platform.
Analysis of Zamula’s declaration for the reporting 2025 year (filed with NACP in 02.04.2026 year) partially confirms the chronology described by Znay.UA’s journalists.
Indeed, on 11 July 2024 year an apartment of 78,9 sq. m appeared in the declaration, acquired for 15 hryvnias and registered one quarter each to Zamula himself, his wife Liliya and their two daughters.
The next day, on 12 July 2024, four more properties were declared:
an apartment of 63,1 sq. m worth 2 800 743 hryvnias (registered to the wife),
a non-residential premises of 2,9 sq. m for 142 941 hryvnias,
and two plots of land — 26 776 sq. m and 4284 sq. m, co-owned by citizen Dovzhenko Olena Ivanivna.
The Volkswagen Tiguan is listed in the declaration as registered to another person — Dovzhenko Sofia Oleksandrivna, while Zamula and his wife have only "other right of use" of it. The surname Dovzhenko also appears among the co-owners of an earlier apartment from 1996 year, which may indicate close family or friendly ties — however, this matter requires separate clarification.
On car marketplaces such vehicles are estimated on average at 16–30 thousand dollars, depending on condition and configuration.
The discrepancy in income figures is also striking: while Znay.UA journalists wrote that Zamula’s wife’s official income was 280 thousand hryvnias per year, according to the declaration for 2025 year Liliya Zamula, as an employee of the National Police of Ukraine, declared a salary of 634 277 hryvnias, and Zamula himself — 693 967 hryvnias in monetary allowances.
Furthermore, the declaration records cash of 32 thousand dollars held by Zamula himself and another 31 thousand dollars held by his wife, as well as an apartment of 39,9 sq. m worth 1 683 625 hryvnias, registered to the wife in May 2025 year — this property was not previously mentioned in the media investigation.
Whether these assets correspond to the couple’s declared income in previous years is a question that only tax and anti-corruption authorities can answer.
To verify and clarify this information, the StopKor editorial team is preparing official inquiries to the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv and the National Police of Ukraine asking whether internal investigations were conducted regarding the facts presented in the media about Bohdan Zamula’s activities.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Квартира за 15 гривень, 63 тисячі доларів готівки та Tiguan: на чому збагатився заступник начальника Святошинської поліції Богдан Замула". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ANTIKOR.
