Position : Deputy of the Odessa City Council from the "Servant of the People" party.
Sphere of corrupt activity : economic.
Region of corruption activity : Odessa, Odessa region.
Qualification : Part 4, Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Status : Vadym Marakhovskyi received 8 years in prison with confiscation of property and a 3-year ban from holding positions in the justice system - judge, lawyer, or prosecutor. He was also stripped of his class rank of justice advisor.
Case story : On April 2, 2025, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court issued a verdict in the case of obtaining an illegal benefit in a particularly large amount.
Former deputy head of the Izmail local prosecutor's office in Odessa region Vadym Marakhovsky and former deputy of the Odessa regional council Ivan Boychenko were held accountable. They were found guilty of receiving 40 thousand US dollars in illegal benefits from the head of a business enterprise for not obstructing his commercial activities.
The court sentenced Ivan Boychenko to 10 years in prison with confiscation of all his property, as well as a ban on holding positions in state and local government bodies (except elected ones) for 3 years. In addition, his bail was increased by 5 million hryvnias and additional procedural obligations were imposed.
Vadym Marakhovskyi received 8 years in prison with confiscation of property and a 3-year ban from holding positions in the justice system - judge, lawyer, or prosecutor. He was also stripped of his class rank of justice advisor.
The verdict can be appealed to the Appeals Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice within 30 days.
Persons allegedly involved in corruption : former deputy of the Odessa Regional Council Ivan Boychenko.
The court sentenced Ivan Boychenko to 10 years in prison with confiscation of all his property, as well as a ban on holding positions in state and local government bodies (except elected ones) for 3 years. In addition, his bail was increased by 5 million hryvnias and additional procedural obligations were imposed.
Wealth : According to the Center for Public Investigations, Marahavskyi made the most money among the deputies of the Odessa City Council in 2023. The most last year was UAH 87.2 million.
Of these, 54.3 million is his salary as the head of the board of PJSC "Bank Vostok", 15.7 million is the return of funds contributed to the authorized capital of LLC "City-M Business" in connection with the reduction of the authorized capital, 9.5 million is interest on subordinated debt, and 7.5 million is income from the sale of securities and corporate rights.
But Marakhovsky's wife, Lia, received 71.6 million hryvnias in income in 2023.
Almost half, 32.7 million, was made up of salary at Vostok Bank, where her husband is the chairman of the board, 28.7 million was income from the sale of real estate, and another 10.1 million came from dividends, alienation of property rights, and money as a gift from her parents. The deputy also topped the rating of the most frugal of the deputies of the Odessa City Council.
So the family's annual income amounted to 158.8 million UAH.
The couple has accumulated 328 million hryvnias for two: 201.6 million for the deputy and 126.5 million for his wife.
Marakhovsky keeps 5,652,416 UAH, 18,310 dollars, and 29,229 euros in his bank account.
The wife, in particular, has UAH 6,313,588 and EUR 298,675 in her bank account. This is only a small part of the Marakhovsky family's monetary assets.
The MP keeps 120,000,000 UAH and 1,950,000 USD in cash. His wife keeps 100,000,000 UAH and 170,000 USD in cash.
Scandals : in 2021, local media wrote that Marakhovsky became the "watcher" of Odessa.
According to journalists, representatives of "Yura Yenakievsky" on the one hand, and representatives of the "synagogue" represented by Shefir, a person close to the president, on the other, petitioned Zelensky for Marakhovsky.
The media wrote that Marakhovsky is very religious and has serious recommendations not only from Odessa and New York Chabad members, but also from Levi Leviev.
A very controversial Israeli businessman who has business in the Russian Federation and is the founder of a number of Jewish schools throughout the CIS. However, Leviev is mainly known as a major diamond smuggler. In 2018, Levi Leviev's son and brother were arrested in Israel for large-scale diamond smuggling.
Interestingly, Levaev is considered a friend of Putin and was involved in Russian intelligence operations to influence the US elections. Overall, Marakhovsky has a "good" teacher.
In addition, in 2023, it was also written that Marakhovsky is the main lobbyist for smuggling king Vadym Alperin within the walls of the Odessa City Council.
Journalists wrote that Marakhovsky was tasked with preventing Hephaestus from stealing a plot of land at 4 Krasnov Street, opposite the Artillery Park.
Marachovsky immediately remembered that the remains of his blood brothers, the Jews, lay there.
Before that, according to the publication, Vadym Marakhovsky did nothing to exhume the remains and rebury them properly.
The thing is that Vadym Oleksandrovych is stealing as many as four hectares from the Ministry of Defense.
That is, "Hephaestus" wants to communalize the land, where Alperin is already building a plot nearby. The trouble is that the plot dreamed of by Alperin is located deep in the country, and the only road, two meters wide, runs along the territory that Trukhanov's friend, the Greek developer Pantelis Boumburas, who donated the Greek Park on Primorsky Boulevard to the city, wants to steal from Odessans.
Odessans, there is no free cheese in the "Trust the Dems" crime syndicate.
This is such a wonderful story.
Related persons: "Smuggling King" Vadim Alperin.
According to the investigation, Alperin created and headed a criminal organization that was engaged in importing goods to Ukraine at an understated customs value.
As established by NABU, companies from Alperin's orbit imported goods using forged documents (invoices) that were made in an office in the "Sonyachny" business center in Odessa. The companies indicated an undervalued value of the goods in their customs declarations.
Vadym Marakhovsky is called the main lobbyist of smuggling king Vadym Alperin within the walls of the Odessa City Council.
Persons who should react: in the case of Marakhovsky, law enforcement officers reacted in a timely manner
Sources :
Unified State Register of Declarations
Smuggling king Vadim Alperin leads Odessa's "servants of the people"