“ First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Yuriy Sobolevskyi, one of the key representatives of the Servant of the People party in the region, found himself at the epicenter of an anti-corruption investigation. Journalists discovered a number of facts that may indicate illegal enrichment and the introduction of unreliable data in the declaration: the sudden appearance of more than 3.5 million hryvnias in cash of unknown origin, the use of a luxury car registered to a retired father-in-law with disproportionate income, and the family’s long-term residence in Germany, which was not reflected in the reporting. Source: investigation by journalists of the “Schemes” project (Radio Liberty) Details: Sobolevsky, who has become one of the main public faces of the Kherson region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, has an official salary of about 60,000 hryvnias per month. However, Scheme investigators found that his family’s lifestyle and financial assets raise serious questions about compliance with official income. Journalists recorded key changes in Sobolevsky’s financial condition in 2019, when he headed Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s election headquarters in the Kherson region. That year, 50,000 dollars, 40,000 euros and almost 1 million hryvnias appeared in Sobolevsky’s declaration – and all of it in cash. In the same period, the Sobolevskyi family spent more than 600,000 hryvnias on the purchase of property rights to an apartment in the Kyiv residential complex and another 300,000 hryvnias on other expenses. Thus, according to journalists’ calculations, the family’s financial condition improved by more than 3.5 million hryvnias in one year without any declared sources that could explain such enrichment. Despite the lack of declared cars, the journalists established that the Sobolevsky family uses an expensive 2020 Volkswagen Touareg SUV. The car is registered to the father-in-law of the official, retired Andrii Borysenko, who officially earned less than the car is worth in his lifetime. Borysenko himself confirmed in a comment to journalists that the car is mainly used by his daughter. The official’s daughter, an assistant to the People’s Deputy from “Servant of the People” Pavel Pavlish, has repeatedly published photos from trips and expensive vacations on social networks. In particular, her publications feature the mother driving the aforementioned car. The official’s family has traveled to France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Dubai, although none of the family members have official sources of high income. According to the border crossing data, in March 2022, Sobolevsky’s wife and children left Ukraine in the same Volkswagen Touareg. They returned only in August 2023, having spent almost a year and a half abroad. The journalists established that the family lived in the German city of Augsburg. However, there is no information about renting or free use of housing abroad in the official’s declaration for the relevant period. In a comment to journalists, the official claims that he earned money while working as a lawyer. About the car, he noted that he and his wife contributed their own money, but did not indicate the car in the declaration, because the wife only uses it sometimes, so he did not consider it “principally and essential”.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Yuriy Sobolevskyi and Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Photo: Facebook/ze2019official Source: investigation journalists of the “Schemes” project (Radio Liberty)
Details: Sobolevsky, who has become one of the main public faces of the Kherson region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, has an official salary of about 60,000 hryvnias per month. However, Scheme investigators found that his family’s lifestyle and financial assets raise serious questions about compliance with official income.
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Journalists recorded key changes in Sobolevsky’s financial condition in 2019, when he headed Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s election headquarters in the Kherson region. That year, 50,000 dollars, 40,000 euros and almost 1 million hryvnias appeared in Sobolevsky’s declaration – and all of it in cash.
In the same period, the Sobolevskyi family spent more than 600,000 hryvnias on the purchase of property rights to an apartment in the Kyiv residential complex and another 300,000 hryvnias on other expenses. Thus, according to journalists’ calculations, the family’s financial condition improved by more than 3.5 million hryvnias in one year without any declared sources that could explain such enrichment.
Despite the lack of declared cars, the journalists established that the Sobolevsky family uses an expensive 2020 Volkswagen Touareg SUV. The car is registered to the father-in-law of the official, retired Andrii Borysenko, who officially earned less than the car is worth in his lifetime.
Borysenko himself confirmed in a comment to journalists that the car is mainly used by his daughter.
The official’s daughter, an assistant to the People’s Deputy from “Servant of the People” Pavel Pavlish, has repeatedly published photos from trips and expensive vacations on social networks. In particular, her publications feature the mother driving the aforementioned car. The official’s family has traveled to France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Dubai, although none of the family members have official sources of high income.
According to the border crossing data, in March 2022, Sobolevsky’s wife and children left Ukraine in the same Volkswagen Touareg. They returned only in August 2023, having spent almost a year and a half abroad. The journalists established that the family lived in the German city of Augsburg. However, there is no information about renting or free use of housing abroad in the official’s declaration for the relevant period.
In a comment to journalists, the official claims that he earned money while working as a lawyer. Regarding the car, he noted that he and his wife contributed their own money, but did not indicate the car in the declaration, because the wife only uses it sometimes, so he did not consider it “principally and essential”.