After the “Schemes” investigation, SAP prosecutors initiated the confiscation of the property of the family of the capital’s top police officer

Prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) on the basis of the materials of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAZK) filed a lawsuit with the Higher Anti-Corruption Court (SAC) to “recognize as unsubstantiated” the assets of almost 8.7 million hryvnias, which belong to the family of the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the National Taras Polienko of the Kyiv Police, as well as their subsequent “request to the state’s income”. Earlier, the journalists of “Schem” (Radio Liberty) talked about a two-story penthouse and two parking spaces in a business-class residential complex in Kyiv, designed for the mother-in-law of this metropolitan police officer, a pensioner who officially earned 100 hryvnias since 1998.

As stated in the message of the SAP and NAKC, prosecutors are asking the court to recognize as “unfounded assets” an apartment with an area of ​​220 square meters, which was purchased by the official’s mother-in-law, two parking spaces in the same residential complex, as well as the income from the sale of these apartments – this happened after the release of the “Scheme” investigation .

“The analysis of the income and expenses of the official, his family members and relatives established the impossibility of purchasing these real estate objects at the expense of legal income. After the acquisition of these assets, they were used by the official and his family, and not by a relative, which, together with other data, indicates that she acquired them on the authority of the official,” the press service of the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office reports.

“The official also caught the attention of the journalists of “Schemes: Corruption in Details”. After the release of their plot, the official’s mother-in-law sold the specified apartment. That is why the prosecutor of the SAP also filed a lawsuit for the recovery of the income received as a result of the sale of the apartment,” the NAZC added.

In the “Scheme” investigation, which was published on September 18, the journalists said that Taras Polienko, deputy chief of the Main Department of the National Police of Kyiv, lives in a two-level apartment in the capital’s residential complex with an area of ​​220 square meters, which belongs to his mother-in-law.

The policeman moved into these apartments with his family in March 2022, as indicated in his declaration. In the same year, Polienko left the position of head of the police department in the River Port of Kyiv and assumed the position of deputy head of the capital’s Main Directorate. In the declaration, he indicated that the owner of the apartment is his mother-in-law Valentina Tkachenko.

According to data received by “Schemes” from sources in the tax office, Tkachenko has officially earned 100 hryvnias since 1998. She retired in 2014, currently receives less than three thousand hryvnias per month. Her husband, that is, Polienko’s father-in-law, receives the same pension. All his official incomes for three years, excluding pension, according to the sources of “Scheme”, amounted to about 350 thousand hryvnias. That is, their official funds in total would not be enough to purchase this real estate in a residential complex.

In a comment to journalists, Polienko noted that he did not know the “circumstances of the purchase” of the apartment, and his wife explained that her mother earned money by growing flowers, and, in addition, the family “had a Volga, which was comparable in value to a residential apartment in the city Kyiv”.

The “Scheme” investigation also drew attention to the fact that there is a Mercedes S-class in the parking space of Polienko’s mother-in-law in the same residential complex, the owner of which could not be established due to the fact that it probably has cover plates. As the policeman himself told journalists, this car belongs to his wife’s friends who went abroad and asked to “ensure its storage and periodic maintenance.” Polienko noted that he uses this car “unsystematically” and therefore does not include information about the car in his declaration.

The policeman also declared that his wife received 7 million hryvnias as a gift from her grandmother, while her official income would not allow to explain such savings either. In a comment to “Schemes”, Taras Polienko reported that his wife “for a long time provided care and care for her grandmother”, so she gave her granddaughter all her property and savings. His wife, Antonina Polienko, could not explain the origin of 7 million savings from her grandmother.

On September 23, the National Police launched an official investigation into the facts of the “Scheme” investigation. Its results were not publicly announced.