Court fines Lyashkivka council member for hiding 44 plots and cars in declaration

Tsarychansky District Court in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast handed down a verdict in favour of the state against a local elected official. Stanislav Voloshin, who held the position of deputy of the Lyashkivka Village Council from the political party "Servant of the People", was found guilty of providing false information about his assets.

Verdict and punishment

The court decision of 2 November 2026 confirmed the defendant's guilt under Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The judge imposed a fine of 68,000 hryvnias on Stanislav Voloshin. In addition, he was deprived of the right to hold positions related to the performance of state or local self-governance functions for a period of two years and six months.

It was established that the court verdict took sincere repentance into account as a mitigating circumstance. The court also considered that the deputy had no prior criminal record, has a positive character reference at his place of residence, is not registered with a psychiatrist or narcologist, and has three children in his care: two children under 14 and one under 18. The court found no aggravating circumstances.

Investigation progress and admission of guilt

According to the prosecution, in late March 2024, Voloshin created a draft of his annual declaration for 2023. The following day, he made corrections, and on 29 March 2024 at 16:36, he signed the document with a qualified electronic signature and submitted it to the register.

During the court hearing, the defendant fully admitted his guilt, did not dispute the circumstances set out in the indictment, and expressed sincere repentance. Therefore, with the consent of the participants in the proceedings, the court did not examine other evidence regarding the factual circumstances of the case, in accordance with Part 3 of Article 349 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.

What was hidden in the declaration

The total amount of discrepancies between the stated and actual data was 3,478,111.31 hryvnias. As stated in the verdict: "Умисно вніс завідомо недостовірні відомості до щорічної декларації особи, уповноваженої на виконання функцій держави або місцевого самоврядування за 2023 рік, які відрізняються від достовірних на загальну суму 3 478 111,31 гривень" (Intentionally entered knowingly false information into the annual declaration of a person authorised to perform state or local self-governance functions for 2023, which differs from the true information by a total amount of 3,478,111.31 hryvnias).

Violations were found in two sections of the document.

In Section 3 "Real Estate Objects", the amount of discrepancies is 2,515,556 hryvnias. The deputy did not list 44 land plots, almost all of which have an area of 20,000 square metres. These include:

• 31 plots acquired under lease agreements concluded in 2022–2023. Their normative monetary value reaches 2,118,556 hryvnias;
• 13 plots purchased under sale and purchase agreements for a total amount of 397,000 hryvnias.

In Section 6 "Valuable Movable Property – Vehicles", a discrepancy of 962,555 hryvnias was found. Voloshin did not specify four vehicles:

• a Toyota Land Cruiser car manufactured in 2008 (value under the agreement dated 21.02.2023 — 40,000 hryvnias);
• an Opel Astra car manufactured in 2008 (value under the agreement dated 03.02.2022 — 81,250 hryvnias);
• a Kovi 250-ST Advance motorcycle manufactured in 2023 (value under the agreement dated 28.07.2023 — 16,600 hryvnias);
• a Mercedes-Benz Citan cargo van manufactured in 2013 (value under the agreement dated 21.12.2023 — 75,000 hryvnias).

In addition, the deputy incorrectly stated the value of three other cars:

• a DAF FT XF 105.460 truck from 2007: 652,800 hryvnias in the declaration, whereas under a 2017 agreement it cost 160,000 hryvnias;
• a Mercedes-Benz E 320 car from 2001: stated as 249,600 hryvnias, under a 2017 agreement — 25,000 hryvnias;
• a Volkswagen Passat car from 2014: stated as 119,420 hryvnias, whereas under a 2018 customs declaration the value was 151,725 hryvnias.

Business activities and appeal

Stanislav Voloshin is the owner and director of LLC "Biznes-Agro-Kapital" (code 39701349). He is also a participant (2% share) in LLC Agrofirm "Kolos" (code 20250934). The main owners of the latter company are Horbatiuk Petro Petrovych and Khorolskyi Mykola Volodymyrovych, each of whom owns 49%.

The verdict may be appealed to the Dnipro Court of Appeal within 30 days. In accordance with Part 2 of Article 394 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, it is not possible to dispute circumstances that were not contested during the hearing of the case in the first instance in an appeal.