Volodymyr Bilei Received a Position at a Recruitment Center Amid Questions About His Family’s Wealth

Colonel of the Armed Forces Volodymyr Bilei in the spring of 2026 moved from the Novoukrainka District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support of Kirovohrad region to the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District TCRC in Odesa region, where he became acting head of Department No.2. At the same time, his family’s declaration draws attention due to the combination of official annual income of about 1,08 million UAH, the purchase of a new Suzuki S-Cross for 1,154 million UAH, the sale of an apartment for 2,629 million UAH, and declared cash savings of $39 thousand UAH.

According to the declaration filed on 28 February 2026, Volodymyr Bilei received 570,6 thousand UAH in monetary allowance, 31,1 thousand UAH in social payments, and 16 thousand UAH in rental income for the previous year. His wife, Anna Bilei, an employee of the Department of Education, Youth and Sports of Haivoron City Council, declared 454,9 thousand UAH in salary, 7,3 thousand UAH in income from land rent, and 395 UAH in national cashback. The couple’s total income, excluding real estate sales, amounted to approximately 1,08 million UAH, media report. At the same time, a single vehicle purchased by the family in October 2025 cost more than all the stated annual incomes of the couple. It was a new Suzuki S-Cross for 1 million 154 thousand UAH. The difference between the car’s price and the couple’s total declared income is about 74 thousand UAH. That ratio alone does not prove a violation, but it raises questions about the financing structure of the purchase, prior savings, and other sources of funds that the family may have had.Availing separate attention are the cash savings of Volodymyr Bilei and his family. The declaration lists $39 thousand, which at the exchange rate of the relevant period is equivalent to more than 1,6 million UAH. This amount is almost three times the annual monetary allowance of the colonel himself and more than one and a half times the couple’s combined income for the stated year. The available materials do not include a separate public explanation of when these funds were accumulated and from which incomes the savings were formed.Another large transaction by the Bilei family is the sale of an apartment in Poltava for 2 million 628,9 thousand UAH. The buyer is listed as 76-year-old Kateryna Demenko. The proceeds are more than double the cost of the new Suzuki S-Cross, so they could have financed the car purchase and left funds for other expenses. However, to fully assess this transaction it is necessary to know when the apartment was purchased, how much it cost at the time of purchase, and whether there were other expenses or obligations related to the sale.The main portion of the family’s real estate is registered to Anna Bilei. In 2022 she purchased a residential house with an area of 124,96 sq. m for 408,7 thousand UAH, as well as a land parcel valued at just over 10 thousand UAH. In addition, the family owns three hectares of land: two hectares are registered to Volodymyr Bilei and another hectare to his wife. These assets by themselves do not indicate unlawful origin of property, but their evaluation requires comparison with the family’s income for the acquisition period.

The family’s car history also spans several years. In 2020 Anna Bilei purchased a Chevrolet Cruze, year 2013, for 55,6 thousand UAH. Five years later she became the owner of a new Suzuki S-Cross for 1,154 million UAH. The difference between the declared values of these vehicles exceeds 1,09 million UAH. At the same time, without full information on savings at the beginning of 2025, income from property sales, and other financial operations, it is impossible to establish the source of funds for the new car.Volodymyr Bilei previously headed the Novoarkhanhelsk District Military Commissariat and later led the Novoukrainka District TCRC in Kirovohrad region. In the spring of 2026 he was transferred to the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District TCRC in Odesa region, where he took a new leadership position. Thus, the change of service location was not accompanied by the loss of managerial functions within the recruitment system.The publication about Volodymyr Bilei’s assets, according to the provided information, was removed soon after it appeared. The reasons for the removal and the circumstances of that situation have not been established. Likewise, the provided materials do not contain confirmed information about a completed inspection of Bilei’s declaration by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the issuance of suspicion, or a guilty verdict. Therefore, the data about his assets and financial transactions cannot be presented as proven facts of illegal enrichment.At the same time, instances of false declarations within the TCRC system have already been the subject of criminal proceedings and inspections. In July 2026 a case against a former head of a department of the Kropyvnytskyi District TCRC for false declaration of more than 3,1 million UAH was referred to court. In August, NACP established more than 4,5 million UAH of false information in the declaration of the former head of the Sambir TCRC. These episodes involve other officials and are not proof of violations by Volodymyr Bilei.Thus, the key questions regarding the colonel’s declaration concern the ratio of official incomes to the cost of the purchased car, the origin of $39 thousand in cash, and the financial history of the apartment sold for 2,63 million UAH. There are no public results of checks of these operations in the provided materials. Without them it is premature to claim illegal origin of the assets, but a transparent explanation of the sources of funds would allow a substantive assessment of the financial history of the recruitment center official’s family.