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The NACP found false information in the declaration of Andrii Tsikalo, judge of the Commercial Court of the Lviv region, amounting to 2,86 million hryvnias, which are signs of part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code.
The editorial office of 368.media learned about this from the NACP’s materials of the check of the corrected declaration for the year 2024.
The main gap — the woman he did not list as family. Tsikalo (Shcherbatiuk) Tetiana Mykhailivna. They filed the marriage application on 14 February 2024, he paid the fee the same day, the ceremony was on 4 January 2025.
The judge says that in 2024 they did not live together: she was in Vinnytsia and only visited him in the village Staryi Yarychiv, and that continued until August 2025. She wrote the same. The NACP did not accept the explanations.
According to the criminal case materials, they were together 269 days of the year, of which 230 were in Staryi Yarychiv, at the address he himself named as his actual residence.
Her work does not refute this. The woman was dismissed from the Podillia Regional Oncology Center in Vinnytsia on 29 March 2024. Her main job is at Medibor Plus LLC in Zhytomyr as a radiologist. Days worked — 48, not working — 294, vacation — 24.
The judge says that was part-time work and consultations by phone. Her PrivatBank card was regularly used in Lviv and the region, and separately — in Vinnytsia. Purchases at Epicenter near Lviv were charged to her number. The judge explained that he gave her phone number through the benefit card.
On 5 October 2024 she bought a Kia Niro (2022) for 395 thousand hryvnias. The judge wrote that he did not use the car for a single day. Cameras of “Safe Lviv Region” record the vehicle in the Lviv region from the day of purchase, including in Bryukhovychi. Part of the routes coincide with his Subaru Outback (2020). The car is not in the declaration. He was aware of its existence.
Tsikalo also did not indicate his partner’s apartment of 55,5 sq. m in Vinnytsia, owned since 20 April 2005. The NACP did not establish its value. He showed a rented apartment of 92 sq. m in Staryi Yarychiv, owner Zoryana Bohdanivna Rusyn, from 1 September 2024. The lease agreement is dated 24 February 2023, the object is not in the rights registry.
In the declaration for 2023 this address was already listed as actual residence, but it was not in the real estate section. He did not list his partner’s use. He did not indicate his son Mykola’s foreign passport in the name Tsikalo Mykola.
A separate line — land, a house and almost 2 million hryvnias, which the NACP considers income through the partner. On 8 August 2024 the aunt Halyna Hryhorivna Sybal gifted him a plot of 1 200 sq. m.
The contract lists a price of 250 thousand hryvnias, the normative monetary valuation is 249 913. On 29 August he sold it to Rusyn, from whom he rents housing, for 1,53 million hryvnias. The expert valuation in the same contract is 67,65 thousand hryvnias. The Kyiv NDISE gave the market value for both dates in the corridor of 197-238 thousand hryvnias. The sale is several times higher than that range.
On 25 October he took a loan from Ukrgasbank for 2 million hryvnias and the same day bought from Vitalina Volodymyrivna Balashova of Kherson a house of 117,7 sq. m and a plot of 468 sq. m for 3,73 million hryvnias. Taras Kazymyrovych Yavorskyi from Bryukhovychi acted on her behalf. The aunt says she promised the plot for a house or sale. The judge says negotiations with Rusyn took place before the gift, and with Balashova — from April to August. The NACP says his own income and savings were insufficient for such a purchase.
Soon Balashova deposited 2 million hryvnias into Shcherbatiuk’s PrivatBank account — an amount matching the loan. Of that, 977 thousand were withdrawn in cash in Lviv, 600 thousand went to Maryna Dmytrivna Chyzhevska in Horodenka, a paternal cousin of the partner, 400 thousand — to her husband Stepan Stepanovych Chyzhevskyi. Balashova calls this loan repayment; there are no documents. Shcherbatiuk says this was repayment of a loan to her mother Liudmyla Anatoliivna Bryikina, who has been in occupied territory since 15 March 2020 and did not return. Part was allegedly transferred to the Chyzhevskys at the mother’s instruction, also without receipts. The NACP interprets 2 million hryvnias as the judge’s income through an affiliated person.
He also did not report 200 thousand hryvnias in cash as a gift: 80 thousand from his father Ihor Hryhorovych and 120 thousand from his brother Volodymyr Ihorovych. At first he wrote that he asked to borrow for housing and they said not to return it. Later — that it was repayable assistance, and he was skeptical about the words not to return. The agency considers this an attempt to avoid liability.
Alimony to his son — 266,5 thousand per year — is not included in the child’s income. The Lychakivskyi District Court of Lviv on 18 September 2023 ordered alimony, and on 22 January 2024 set it at a quarter of earnings, not less than half the subsistence minimum for a child. The beneficiary is the mother, Iryna Orestivna Tsikalo. The judge referred to the certificate “Data for declaration,” where this was not indicated. The NACP reminds that alimony is the child’s income, and the certificate does not replace the obligation to ask the family.
On 7 February 2024 he gifted his son and Sofiia Andriivna Tsikalo half of a house of 267,1 sq. m for 6,10 million hryvnias and plots of 600 sq. m for 755 thousand hryvnias. The son’s share is 3,43 million hryvnias. The objects and transaction are in the declaration, and a notice of significant changes was submitted on 9 February. There is no income of the son from the gift. Explanations were taken, but the inaccuracy was not removed.
The partner’s income is also not listed: 176 thousand from the sale of a Peugeot 207 2010, 101 thousand salary at the oncology center, 11 thousand at Medibor Plus. The NACP did not establish the judge’s knowledge specifically of these amounts. There are no her accounts in Oschadbank, PrivatBank, Universal Bank and Ukreximbank.
In expenditures there is no loan agreement from 25 October 2024 for 2 million hryvnias and no spending of those loan funds on the house. The loan liability itself appears in the liabilities section, and his own 1,73 million hryvnias for the purchase are also shown. In cash assets he redundantly listed balances that do not reach the threshold of 50 subsistence minimums: 40 579 hryvnias, 783 hryvnias and 39 157 hryvnias.
In total, the NACP’s amount of false information is 2,86 million hryvnias. The certificate should be sent to the judge, the head of the court and the High Council of Justice and made public. This is the conclusion of the check, not a verdict.
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