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Relatives of the former head of police in Chernihiv region, and now advisor to the head of the National Police, Volodymyr Nidzelskyi, who in his declaration says he rents a studio apartment in Kyiv, live in a luxurious estate in Lisnyky worth over 2 million dollars. Journalists noticed that the police officer’s car regularly departed from that estate.
This is reported in an investigation by Bihus.Info.
Previously, Volodymyr Nidzelskyi headed the National Police Main Directorate in Chernihiv region and at the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022 became embroiled in a scandal. It emerged that the police chief had essentially withdrawn from his duties and disappeared from the city, which forced the head of the regional military administration, Viacheslav Chaus, to appoint an interim police chief.
Nidzelskyi himself, according to media, explained his disappearance by saying he needed to defend Kyiv. The officer returned to Chernihiv only after Chaus’s order appointing a new chief. Interestingly, at that time the regional department also dismissed one hundred and fifty rank-and-file policemen with the explanation “leaving their place of deployment.” Nidzelskyi, who formally also fell under this criterion, avoided any punishment and remained in a leadership position in the region until the fall of 2023, after which he moved to work in the capital and took the position of advisor to the head of the National Police.
However, journalists were more interested in the property story of the officer’s relatives than his professional history. Nidzelskyi divorced his wife Lesia in 2020 — at the same time his mother-in-law Tetiana Miroshnychenko had a number of land plots registered in Lisnyky, an affluent Kyiv suburb. Around that time large-scale construction reportedly began there.
The estate is now practically finished, although it is still legally classified as an unfinished construction. The police officer declares a tiny rented apartment in Kyiv, in which he says he supposedly lives. Nevertheless, Bihus.Info journalists noticed that Nidzelskyi regularly left the Lisnyky estate to go to work. In comments to journalists he explained these visits as a desire to see his children, who after the divorce stayed with his ex-wife. At the same time, the frequency of these departures raises questions. Nidzelskyi’s ex-wife Lesia, for example, explained one such visit by saying he supposedly “helped put out a fire nearby after a strike,” which sounds very odd.
Questions are also raised about the source of funds for such large-scale construction. The officer’s former mother-in-law, Tetiana Miroshnychenko, told journalists that the construction was financed from long-standing savings from business, because the Miroshnychenko family owns a market in the town of Khrestivka in Donetsk region. The problem is that the town has been under Russian occupation since 2014, and, according to Miroshnychenko herself, the family lost access to it and no longer receives income from it.
At the same time, according to official Russian registers, Miroshnychenko holds a Russian passport and in December 2022 registered as an individual entrepreneur under the law of the aggressor country in the aforementioned occupied Khrestivka.
The woman also stated that she regularly receives money transfers from local businesswoman Nina Kyrylenko, who was awarded by the occupation authorities of the so-called “DPR.” According to Miroshnychenko, this is repayment of an old debt, although given that Kyrylenko was previously involved in running the family market, this could likely be payment for use of the trading space now.
Interestingly, both Miroshnychenko and her daughter Lesia deny the fact of registration as an individual entrepreneur in the temporarily occupied territory. The advisor to the head of the National Police, Volodymyr Nidzelskyi, says he knew nothing about his former mother-in-law’s Russian individual entrepreneur registration.
It is also notable that after speaking with journalists and before the story aired, the house in Lisnyky was put up for sale.
Thanks to the listing, journalists were able to learn that its total area is 570 square meters, encompassing six bedrooms, an SPA area with a jacuzzi, a sauna, a pool, a private gym, a garage for 5 cars, and a separate house for security or staff. They were also able to learn the property’s price — over $2 million.
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