Position: Director of the Chernivtsi Municipal Enterprise "Misksvitlo", City Council Member from "European Solidarity".
Sphere of corruption: municipal property
Region of corruption activity: Chernivtsi.
Qualification: Part 5, Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. According to the article, the defendants face from 7 to 12 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term of up to three years and confiscation of property.
Status: preventive measure - bail of over 900 thousand hryvnias.
Case plot: prosecutors from the Chernivtsi regional, Specialized Environmental, and district prosecutor's offices reported suspicions to 15 individuals — from heads of utility companies and village heads to heads of state-owned enterprises, private firms, and contracting organizations.
The schemes are different, but the handwriting is the same - embezzlement of budget funds, abuse of official position, official negligence, false declaration, says a statement from the Chernivtsi Regional Prosecutor's Office.
Thus, according to law enforcement officers, transactions with budget funds during procurement were discovered.
In particular, it was reported that the director of the Municipal Enterprise "Misksvitlo", together with the director of a private company, squandered almost UAH 2.2 million of budget funds by purchasing lighting equipment at inflated prices.
The territorial department of the BEB informed Suspilny that the head of "Misksvitl" concluded fictitious contracts with an individual entrepreneur under his control. In fact, the goods were supplied from another company at a lower price, and the difference in cost was appropriated by the suspects. Information about these purchases was not published on the electronic portal "Prozorro".
The director of the municipal enterprise "Misksvitlo" is Andriy Shaleev . The Chernivtsi Public Service called his personal number to find out if he agreed with the suspicion. At first his phone was turned off, and then Shaleev did not answer the call.
At the same time, he announced on Facebook that he "received the suspicion personally."
Everyone who knows me understands that I will fight to the end. For the truth, for justice, for competence, for my honest name. [...] I have an active civic position. Therefore, I see this as persecution precisely for my professional and public activities.
In August 2025, the Court removed Andriy Shaleev, the director of the Chernivtsi municipal enterprise "Misksvitlo", from his position, who is suspected of embezzling more than two million hryvnias from the state budget for the purchase of lighting equipment. The suspect was removed from his position at the request of the prosecutor.
In addition to the removal from office, the court adopted a preventive measure - a bail of over 900 thousand hryvnias and imposed on the suspect the following obligations, in particular, to appear upon each request to the Detective of the Territorial Department of the BES in the region, not to leave Chernivtsi without the permission of the detective, prosecutor or court, to report his place of residence and place of work, to hand over his passport and to refrain from communicating with witnesses.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing.
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes: in addition to the director of "Misksvitl", in August, suspicions of embezzlement of budget funds, abuse of official position, official negligence, and false declarations were announced against 14 more officials.
Namely:
- the former acting head of the trolleybus department - in overpayment of more than a million hryvnias for electricity;
- the former head of the Housing and Utilities Department of the Chernivtsi City Council and the head of the technical inspection department - in embezzlement of money on the repair of the runway. This involves more than 3.3 million hryvnias;
- Acting Tereblechensky village headman — overpaid more than 250 thousand hryvnias for shelter repairs. Since November 2021, the duties of the Tereblechensky village headman have been temporarily performed by the council secretary Diana Kostyuk, according to the community website;
- the head of the treatment facilities service of the municipal enterprise "Chernivtsivodokanal" and five craftsmen - for polluting the reservoir with sewage. According to the prosecutor's office, they violated the established operating mode of the treatment systems and thus allowed the discharge of contaminated sewage past the full filtration cycle. The preliminary amount of damages is over 2.5 million hryvnias;
- the former director of the Khotynsky National Nature Park — under the guise of road construction, he probably agreed to the illegal felling of trees in the park. The environmental damage was estimated at over 320 thousand hryvnias;
- the head of the production control laboratory of a construction company — probably certified low-quality concrete for the repair of an international highway. The losses amount to almost 840 thousand hryvnias;
- A suspicion of false declaration was reported to an official of the Berehometsk village council. He probably hid an apartment in Kyiv worth over 3.2 million hryvnias in his declarations for 2022–2023. Suspilne called Berehometsk village head Serhiy Bodnaryuk to find out which of the council's leading specialists had been reported about the suspicion, and also to ask for the employee's contacts to find out his position. Bodnaryuk replied that the council was aware of the suspicion, but refused to provide the suspect's name and contacts.
Assets: In his 2024 declaration, he listed an apartment and three land plots. He also listed two cars: a 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander worth UAH 177,667 and a 2021 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 150, the cost of which was not specified. In addition, he declared UAH 825,673 in salary, UAH 300,000 in cash, and USD 20,000.
Persons who should have reacted: in the case of Shaleev, law enforcement officers reacted in a timely manner.
Scandals: There is no information in open sources about other scandals in which Shaleev would appear.
Sources:
https://suspilne.media/chernivtsi/1090906-15-posadovcam-na-bukovini-ogolosili-pidozri-so-vidomo/
https://public.nazk.gov.ua/documents/2fc15c53-bd2e-46e7-a8d2-7491a2549734