Declaration issues for deputy head of Ukrdiproddor

The first deputy head of the state enterprise "Ukrainian State Institute for the Design of Road Facilities 'UKRDIPRODDOR'", Yuriy Kharkivshchenko, provided inaccurate information in his declaration. An investigation revealed that he concealed assets and understated his income by more than 6.2 million hryvnia.

Concealed assets and undervalued property

Kharkivshchenko failed to declare a 1,000-square-metre plot of land in Mykolaiv owned by his wife. The declaration also omitted the actual value of his 2015 BMW i3 — instead of the declared 5,000 hryvnia, the car's actual market value, according to an assessment by the Kyiv National Forensic Expertise Institute, is 694,440 hryvnia.

In addition, he did not disclose his wife's income of 202,000 hryvnia from the sale of a land plot, nor the sale of a 2012 Toyota Venza for 149,000 hryvnia.

Suspicious sources of income

Kharkivshchenko's declaration lists 150,000 US dollars in cash, while his wife, Anastasia, declared 47,000 US dollars and 300,000 hryvnia. However, the sources of these funds raise serious doubts. The family's total expenditure on real estate and vehicles amounted to 3.78 million hryvnia, significantly exceeding their official income.

Kharkivshchenko himself claims that his mother, Lyudmyla Kharkivshchenko, allegedly gifted him this money in November 2021. According to him, she borrowed these funds from a citizen, Budnyk Yu.V., under an agreement dated 11 October 2021. However, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) questions the reality of this transaction, given that the official's mother received only 950 hryvnia in social assistance between 2021 and 2023 and has no employment or business to repay the debt.

Unjustified expenses and income discrepancies

Following the alleged receipt of the gift, Kharkivshchenko did not acquire any assets, which contradicts the logic of such transactions. Kharkivshchenko's official income from 1998 to 2022 amounted to only 2 million hryvnia, while his wife's was 458,000 hryvnia. These sums are clearly insufficient to accumulate 7.5 million hryvnia in cash and cover expenses on real estate and vehicles.

The official's actions fall under Part 2 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to information from the ABSOLUTION detective agency