Position: former head of the Odesa Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support.
The sphere of corrupt activity : illegal enrichment during a full-scale war.
Qualification: a person authorized to perform state functions is suspected of acquiring assets, the value of which exceeds his legal income by more than six thousand five hundred tax-free minimum incomes of citizens (Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);
• failure to report for duty on time without valid reasons by a military serviceman, committed under martial law conditions - committing a criminal offense (Part 5 of Article 407 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);
• in the military serviceman's evasion of military service duties by deception, committed under martial law (Part 4 of Article 409 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Status: He is currently in a pre-trial detention center.
The plot of the case: At the end of April 2023, the former head of the Odesa Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support found himself at the center of a corruption scandal.
As it turned out, during the full-scale war, Yevhen Borisov's family bought real estate and cars worth millions of dollars on the Spanish coast.
This, according to journalists, is evidenced by extracts from the Spanish register, although Borisov himself at first tried to justify himself and stated in a media comment that he was not aware of whether his family had any property in Spain at all.
After a public reaction, Borisov was removed from his official duties, and the SBI initiated proceedings regarding the facts of abuse by Yevhen Borisov, the head of the Odesa Military Commissariat, during the conscription of conscripts.
During the pre-trial investigation, the Bureau collected a huge array of evidence base, and the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption revealed signs of illegal enrichment of the former Odesa military commissar for more than UAH 188 million.
On July 24, 2023, SBI employees together with prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office detained Yevhen Borisov, who was hiding from the investigation in Kyiv.
He was charged with illegal enrichment of hundreds of millions of hryvnias and deliberate evasion of duty.
On July 25, 2023, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv sent Yevhen Borysov to custody for two months with the possibility of paying a bail of 150 million hryvnias.
In December 2024, SBI officers in Kyiv detained the former head of the Odessa DTCP, who was released from pretrial detention after posting bail.
The agency does not name the detainee, but judging by the photo and case materials, it is Yevhen Borisov.
Borisov was previously released from pre-trial detention on bail of 39.364 million hryvnias. However, the State Bureau of Investigation reportedly received information that after leaving the detention center, Borisov planned to hide from the investigation, including by going abroad.
He was informed of the suspicion of committing new criminal offenses provided for in Part 3 of Article 27, Part 1 of Article 114-1 (organization of obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special period), Part 3 of Article 27, Part 1 of Article 366 (organization of the preparation and issuance by an official of a knowingly false official document) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
As the SBI reported, he organized a non-combat injury registration for himself, which was not even received during the performance of official duties. Based on the erroneous decision of the service inspection and, accordingly, the conclusion of the MSEC, he was unjustifiably awarded additional remuneration in the total amount of UAH 165,480 for the period April-June 2022.
On December 25, 2024, SBI officers detained Borisov again. The bureau had information that after leaving the pre-trial detention center, he planned to hide from the investigation, in particular, to go abroad.
He was informed of the suspicion of committing new criminal offenses under Part 3 of Article 27, Part 1 of Article 114-1 (organization of obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special period), Part 3 of Article 27, Part 1 of Article 366 (organization of the preparation and issuance by an official of a knowingly false official document) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The Pechersk Court of Kyiv has imposed a preventive measure on the former head of the Odessa TCP, Yevhen Borisov. Contrary to the position of the prosecution, the judge allowed the scandalous ex-officer to be released on bail.
The court took Borisov into custody, but with the possibility of bail of 402 million UAH. Prosecutors requested that he be placed in pretrial detention without bail.
Fortune: Just two months before the full-scale invasion, Evgeny Borisov bought a luxury villa in Marbella worth more than 3 million euros.
However, he decided to register the estate for his retired mother. Borisov also did not offend his other relatives, who became owners of elite gifts.
In particular, Borisov's wife bought an office space for 737,000 euros on the main street of Marbella, without having a sufficient number of legally obtained assets and income for this, and Borisov's mother-in-law in recent years became the owner of an expensive car fleet. It included: "Toyota Land Cruiser Prado", "Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG", "Toyota Land Cruiser".
The former military commissar set a "record" among Ukrainian businessmen, because he managed to illegally appropriate UAH 188 million.
However, it seems that Borisov's weakness for the beautiful life is manifested at all levels. He came to the court session, where a preventive measure was chosen for him, in things of status Italian brands, which average Ukrainians are unlikely to be able to afford - because of their high price policy.
Evgeny Borisov appeared in court wearing a $390 Italian brand Etro t-shirt with a retro-fashionable paisley pattern or, in the popular style, "Turkish cucumbers". As for the shoes, the suede loafers appear to be from the famous Italian shoe brand "Tod's" and cost 690 euros.
Scandals: Yevhen Borisov worked as a military commissar since 1996, but he was not involved in high-profile scandals until he started buying luxury real estate abroad.
The society was most outraged not even by the "luxuries" of Borisov's life, but by the fact that he "earned" his fortune in the war.
According to people's deputy Ihor Mosiychuk, Borysov got rich by issuing so-called "white tickets" for postponement of mobilization.
"Sold "white tickets", stole from military supplies, my son works in the Odesa Department of the SSU. A "white ticket" cost 5,000... Relatively speaking, 2,000 Odessans who bought a "white ticket" gave from 5 to 10 thousand euros and he earned 10-20 million," Mosiychuk noted and added that there could have been much more than 2,000 applicants."
Actually, because of Borisov's activities, Odesa was called a "hub for dodgers."
And already during the court session on the selection of preventive measures, the ex-military committee managed to make social media users laugh with complaints about their health. The former military official, as they say, began to "push for pity", claiming that he constantly had blood clots breaking off.
Such statements mostly outraged Ukrainians, and his "proofs" and level of knowledge of the Ukrainian language caused scathing mockery.
Sources:
Telegram State Bureau of Investigation
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