Russian journalists called the Russian passport of Hennadiy Trukhanov published by the SBU a forgery

The Russian opposition outlet The Insider calls the alleged Russian foreign passport of Odessa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov, whose photo was published by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a fake.

According to the publication, the passport number indicates that it was issued on November 2, 2010, whereas the SBU statement claimed that the document had been issued in December 2015. A passport with that same number was indeed issued on that day, but to another person — a Russian woman named Tatyana, who later successfully traveled abroad using that passport.

Journalists also note that the name Hennadiy in Latin letters is correctly transliterated with two “n”s, unlike in the version shown by the SBU.

As The Insider writes, according to Russian databases, Trukhanov did in fact have two Russian internal passports: the first, whose number begins with 4604, is listed as issued on April 15, 2003, and later lost; the second, beginning with 4611, was issued on March 24, 2011 by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region “to replace the lost one.” In the application for this passport — also available to The Insider — the reason stated is “due to reaching the age of 45.”

At the same time, based on border-crossing data, after the start of the war in 2014, Trukhanov did not visit Russia, and there is no information indicating that he possesses any current Russian foreign passport.

Moreover, if he had visited Russia, Trukhanov could have faced problems, since Russian security services had shown interest in him due to his “involvement in the Ukrainian events of 2013–2014.”