Ukrainian businessman and billionaire Polyshchuk took a job as a truck driver to travel abroad

Ukrainian businessman and billionaire Viktor Polyshchuk, a 47-year-old man of conscription age, freely traveled abroad on false pretenses during the state of war.

This was reported in an investigation by the “Schemes” program.

In 2022, he applied to the “Shlyakh” system based on documents with signs of forgery regarding humanitarian aid, and then worked as a truck driver for a carrier company, although he did not deliver any cargo himself.

Polyshchuk was included in the “Shlyakh” system by the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration upon the request of the local public organization “Union for the Protection of Entrepreneurial Rights”. Based on this permission, Polyshchuk went abroad twice and never brought any humanitarian aid.

When the validity period of the “volunteer” permit expired, the billionaire got a job as a truck driver at the registered Chernivtsi region LLC “Trans-Soyuz”. Carrier drivers are required to cross the border exclusively on the company’s cargo transport, and Polyshchuk indeed went abroad twice driving a Mercedes Sprinter cargo van, but returned in a Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 SUV.

The head of the “Trans-Soyuz” company confirmed that Polyshchuk was employed in his company as a truck driver.

“He was employed. There was a probationary period. Now it’s hard to find a decent driver. I had two drivers who left and didn’t want to come back; they abandoned the truck,” he said.

According to him, Polyshchuk was supposed to transport parcels but failed to do the job properly, so he was fired along with other drivers.

“I fired all of them because they didn’t do the job properly. I remember they didn’t pick up all the parcels, all the deliveries,” the company owner said.

Journalists attempted to contact Polyshchuk, but he left all questions unanswered.

Viktor Polyshchuk is the owner of the “Gulliver” shopping and office center in Kyiv (he claimed that he didn’t own the building, but personally guaranteed the debts of the owning company amounting to $207 million) and the “Eldorado” network of appliance stores. He also owned the bankrupt “Mikhailovsky” bank in 2016.