President of FC Kolos Andriy Zasukha Obtained Russian Passports After the War Began

President of FC Kolos Andriy Zasukha obtained Russian passports after the war began

Former deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council from Batkivshchyna, and now president of the football club Kolos (Kovalivka), Andriy Zasukha obtained Russian internal and foreign passports after the start of the full-scale war. He also has a Russian tax identification number, three cars with Moscow license plates, and registration at an apartment on New Arbat in Moscow.

This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Center. They noted that Zasukha’s mother is registered in the same building — former People’s Deputy from the Party of Regions (banned in Ukraine) Tetiana Zasukha.

"At least from 2014 to 2018, Andriy Zasukha flew from Ukraine to Russia. And in 2007 he flew from Moscow together with Marianna Kobets — after 2022 the occupiers appointed her head of the Kherson Football Federation, and her father as the gauleiter of Kherson," the report says.

The report also states that Zasukha studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations — an institution “that trains specialists for diplomatic careers and for the security services.” Investigators say Tetiana Zasukha previously confirmed Andriy’s admission to this university.

Tetiana Zasukha herself, the report notes, also has a Russian tax identification number. And Zasukha’s father, Anatoliy, who under President Leonid Kuchma was head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, “fled to Russia in 2005 when he was wanted in Ukraine.”

"Data from leaked Russian passport databases... show that the escape was accompanied by a change of surname... to the name Andreyev Anatoliy Andriyovych... ‘Andreyev’ is registered in the Moscow suburb Lyubertsy at the same address as Zasukha’s son Andriy. With that passport he flew to Ukraine in 2015. That passport is still valid and is linked to a Russian tax identification number," the investigators said.

Andriy Zasukha — scandals

He is the owner of the agricultural firm Svitanok. This company is known for purchasing land plots from the state enterprise Dmytrivka of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences at an undervalued price.

According to the Anti-Corruption Center, Svitanok paid a salary to the wife of former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, Oleksandra, who left Ukraine. The firm also provided the prosecutor general’s couple with use of a gas power plant for 1,14 million UAH.

He resigned as a deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council in 2023. According to Chesno, the reason was a “desire to travel abroad.”

The village of Kovalivka, where Kolos is based, is called the Zasukhas’ “feudal possession” in the media. In particular, it is said that they "turned the village into their own yard with their own rules."