The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has identified signs of illegal enrichment in the head of the district territorial recruitment center in Odessa, amounting to nearly 1.22 million euros

The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine has identified signs of illegal enrichment in the case of Viacheslav Kushnerov, the head of the Malinovsky Territorial Recruitment Center in Odessa, to the tune of nearly 47 million Ukrainian hryvnias (1.22 million euros).

This information was disclosed by the press service of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine.

The case has been handed over to the police.

In May 2022, the military commissar and his spouse purchased a 111.1 square meter apartment in Odessa for 600,000 hryvnias (15,500 euros), which they later sold for 7.56 million hryvnias (195,800 euros) a year later.

Additionally, his wife acquired a Toyota Highlander car valued at almost 1.9 million hryvnias (49,200 euros), which was subsequently sold for 2 million hryvnias (51,800 euros).

In the same year, the mother of the military commissar gifted her son a residential house near Odessa with outbuildings, with a total area of 259.2 square meters, valued at one million hryvnias (25,900 euros). The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine determined that her income over the last 22 years was significantly less than the value of the property gifted.

Over the past few years, the mother-in-law of the military commissar became the owner of an apartment near Odessa worth over 300,000 hryvnias (7,770 euros) and a Mercedes-Benz GLS 400 for 420,000 hryvnias (10,900 euros), even though such a car typically costs more than 5 million hryvnias (around 130,000 euros).

Previously, the mother-in-law of the commissar purchased a Mercedes-Benz GLC 220D valued at 1.4 million hryvnias (36,300 euros), which she later sold to her daughter for 1.5 million hryvnias (38,900 euros).

In August 2022, members of the military commissar’s family gifted each other a total of 30 million hryvnias (77,700 euros).

The military commissar’s son became the owner of a 55.8 square meter apartment in Odessa, valued at nearly half a million hryvnias (almost 13,000 euros), and a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 511 for almost half a million hryvnias (almost 13,000 euros), without legitimate means for these purchases.

In 2018, the son of the military commissar bought a Volkswagen CC from the former head of the Odessa Territorial Recruitment Center, Yevgeny Borisov, for 500,000 hryvnias (almost 13,000 euros), which he subsequently resold.

In all of these actions, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine sees indications of legal fiction by inflating actual income and understating actual expenses.

Viacheslav Kushnerov has declined to comment on these allegations to the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in Ukraine.

Earlier, residents of Odessa complained that men were being forcibly held at the Malinovsky military commissariat.