The property of the balance can be confiscated in favor of the state
The mayor of Kherson and Vladimir Saldo, after the capture of the city by Russian troops, initiated the creation of authorities, appears in the case of treason and may lose his property. The editors of 368.media learned about this as a result of an investigation of his business connections.
Saldo is known not only as a former mayor with pro-Russian views, but also as one of the richest people in the Kherson region. He owns a number of companies and real estate in Kherson and beyond, registered to family members and nominees. Since 1998, Vladimir Saldo has held exclusively government positions. He was a deputy of the Kherson City Council, deputy chairman of the Kherson State Administration for housing and communal services and construction, mayor, people's deputy of Ukraine.
As a civil servant, the law directly forbade him to do business. However, over the years of Sald's political career, his family has taken possession of numerous business assets and thousands of square meters of real estate, in particular, on the Black Sea coast.
During Saldo's tenure as mayor of Kherson, his family received two apartments and a large house in Kherson, and two apartments in Kyiv. The family also owns a three-room apartment in the Odessa residential complex “New Arcadia”. At the same time, Saldo's wife bought a cottage in the Crimea near Alushta and apartments in the Yalta village of Voskhod, in a complex built by the Crimean speaker Vladimir Konstantinov's Konsol firm.
When Saldo became a people's deputy, the family got another three-room apartment and two parking spaces in Yalta – in the elite residential complex Oreanda Plaza.
Lyubov Saldo, according to the register of legal entities, owns the company PJSC “Kashtan”, registered in Korostyshev, Zhytomyr region. The company is engaged in the extraction of decorative and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate and owns real estate in the village of. Beeches of the Malinsky district. As law enforcement officers found out in 2020, the company is carrying out mining operations on the territory of the Bukovsky deposit without special permission.
Lyubov Saldo is a co-founder of the Zhytomyr Association of Enterprises for the Extraction and Processing of Natural Stone “Zhytomyr Granite”. Russian citizen Anna Bdyuleva is listed as a partner in the association. She also owns a 30% stake in Kherson PJSC Delta-Service, which specializes in ancillary activities in the field of transport. The company owns four properties at once in the Kherson region, mainly on the territory of Karantinny Island.
Balance's property may be confiscated
PJSC Delta-Service appears in four criminal proceedings. The activities of another Lyubov company, the prestigious Lyubava beauty salon, have been discontinued. The woman also left the founders of the Odessa law firm ILON-S.P.S.-88 LLC. Vladimir Saldo registered many businesses in the name of his daughter Irina Saldo. In particular, it owns Konka LLC, which specializes in organizing recreation and entertainment. The company owns a house in the village. Antonovka near Kherson. She also owns, together with Vyacheslav Bebko and Anton Kushnir, Bebko-avto LLC, a company that sells cars. Irina Saldo owns a stake in PJSC Design and Construction Company Khersonstroy, against which bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated. Previously, the company appeared in a journalistic investigation into a raider seizure of land on the Black Sea coast. Also, the mayor's daughter was a member of Lux Travel Education Job Management Group LLC, Dnipro Trading Company LLC and Sea Deco LLC. These companies are involved in a number of criminal proceedings.
Local journalists associate Sergey Pozhaev with Vladimir Saldo, to whom a significant part of the family's business and real estate is registered. It was Pozhaev who for a long time was the nominal owner of the Bans state of emergency, which de facto belonged to Vladimir Saldo. The company has three properties on its balance sheet, two of which are located in the historical area of Kherson. Pozhaev is also the founder of KPD-5 S LLC, which appears in three criminal cases over the past three years. The company owns a building on the street. Lutheran in Kherson. Sergey Pozhaev owns a service cooperative ZhSK “ZhK Comfort Kherson”, which in turn owns land in the Kherson region. He also controls NPP Special Polymer Technologies LLC, registered in Kyiv and having one unidentified property. Today, Volodymyr Saldo is the chairman of the Kherson city public association of builders and investors “Stroyinvestsoyuz”, as well as the founder of the public organization “Our city is our home”. Balance on suspicion of collaboration. It was established that he, with the support of the armed formations of the Russian Federation and representatives of Russia, took a number of measures to prepare and organize the referendum. By the decree of the President, Saldo was included in the NSDC sanctions list.
The ex-mayor of Kherson, Saldo, was detained in the Dominican Republic