The High Anti-Corruption Court found the assets of the head of one of the sectors of the Kyiv Customs to be unfounded and made a decision on civil confiscation.
Literally SAP: “On September 17, 2024, the panel of judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court granted the claim of the SAP prosecutor to recognize as unfounded the assets registered to a relative of an employee of the Fastov customs clearance sector of the Yuzhny customs post of the Kyiv customs office, in the amount of more than UAH 8.6 million, and to recover them for the benefit of the state.”
Details: The official reports do not indicate the name of the customs officer, but according to Ukrainska Pravda, this is about Ruslan Firsov and his mother Tatyana.
According to SAP, in April 2023, the mother of a Kyiv customs officer purchased a residential building and six plots of land, which make up one estate in the suburbs of Kyiv, for more than UAH 8.6 million.
She later gave power of attorney to her son and his wife to represent her in all matters related to these properties.
After acquiring these assets, it was the official and his wife who used them, and not the mother, which indicates, along with other data, that she acquired them as property on the instructions of the official.
Based on the materials of the NAPC and evidence independently obtained by the prosecutor, it was established that it was impossible for the official’s mother to acquire this property through legal sources.
Also, the official himself, who has worked in civil service positions for more than 25 years, and his wife, who worked in customs authorities until April 2023, did not have legal income and assets to acquire the above-mentioned property, prosecutors point out.
Following the consideration of the claim, the court fully satisfied the prosecutor’s demands: it recognized the specified assets as unfounded and ordered that they be collected as state property.
It was stated that the court decision had not entered into legal force and could be appealed within 30 days from the date of its full text.