HACC Seizes Kyiv Police Deputy Chief’s Property in Asset Case

The higher anti-corruption court seized the real estate of Taras Polienko, the deputy head of the Main Department of the Kyiv National Police, as part of a civil suit for confiscation of property filed by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

As you know, the SAP filed a lawsuit for civil confiscation of the assets of Polienko, his mother-in-law and father-in-law, namely: apartments in the residential complex "Zarechny" with a total area of ​​220.5 square meters. m and two parking spaces with an area of ​​13.8 square meters. m each with a total cost of UAH 3.67 million, as well as income from their sale for almost UAH 5 million. The prosecutor also asked to satisfy the application for securing the claim by imposing a seizure on this real estate, as well as on other assets of the defendants, which correspond to their value. It was about a plot of land with an area of ​​0.12 hectares in the Brovar district of the Kyiv region and a residential building with a total area of ​​134.5 square meters. m.

The application of the prosecutor of the SAPs to secure the claim based on the civil claim of the state of Ukraine against (Taras Polienko, Anatoliy and Valentina Tkachenkov - eds.) regarding recognition of assets as unfounded and their collection into state income is to be granted. Seize the assets that are the subject of the dispute... Seize the other assets of the defendants, corresponding to their value, in cases of recognition of assets as unfounded and their collection into state revenue

Earlier we wrote that, according to the "Schemes" investigation, the official's mother-in-law - Valentina Tkachenko - officially earned 100 hryvnias since 1998, and she retired in 2014 and currently receives less than three thousand hryvnias a month. Her husband receives a similar pension.

However , a two-story penthouse and two parking spaces in a business-class residential complex in Kyiv were recorded on them . The policeman's wife claims that her mother earned money by selling flowers, the family also had a Volga, which was comparable in value to an apartment in the capital."

In addition, we reported that the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaly Koval refused to comment on the information that he probably lives in a premium-class residential complex in an apartment worth 17.7 million hryvnias , which belongs to a retired mother-in-law.