The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) sustained the first claim for civil seizure of unjustified assets in the amount of more than Hr 1.2 million belonging to MP of Ukraine Illia Kiva (from the Opposition Platform – For Life faction), they were collected as government income.
“On August 13, 2021, HACC sustained the claim of the acting Head of the SAPO Management Department […] for the recognition of assets in the amount of more than Hr 1.2 million belonging to the MP of Ukraine as unjustified and their collection in accordance with Ukrainian legislation to the government income,” the SAPO said in a statement on Facebook on Aug. 13.
The SAPO said that prosecutors, with the assistance of NACP and NABU, revealed the fact of receiving an unjustified asset by the MP of Ukraine of the ninth convocation.
“It has been established that the MP, despite the fact that he is not the owner of real estate objects and, not having the authority to own, use and dispose of them, transferred the above property for rent to a business entity with signs of fictitiousness,” the SAPO said.
At the same time, the prosecutor’s office said the MP illegally received Hr 1.242 million and another Hr 10,000 were credited to the MP’s bank account as commission income for conducting non-cash banking operations.
In the statement of the SAPO does not indicate the name of the MP, however, as an informed source told Interfax-Ukraine, it is about Illia Kiva.
