In the Rada, 170 millionaire people’s deputies receive money from the budget for rent

170 people's deputies receive state compensation for renting housing in Kyiv, 120 of them have declared millions of savings, and at least 25 own housing in the capital or an elite suburb, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

This is stated in the story of the program “Our Pennies with Denis Bigus”.

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Among the recipients of compensation are even official owners of housing in the capital or the 30-kilometer zone around Kyiv.

For example, a former regional member and now a member of the “Will of the People” deputy group, Igor Molotok, who together with his family declared savings of 20 million hryvnia and personally owns a country estate in the village of Romankov near Kiev.

Hammer first tried to explain the receipt of compensation by saying that his estate was too far from Kyiv (although in fact less than 30 km from the Verkhovna Rada), and then he suddenly remembered about the alleged repairs, due to which he could not use the house. However, journalists recorded that on weekday mornings there are foreign cars parked near Molotok’s country house. In addition, the deputy’s wife has an apartment of 150 sq.m. in Kyiv.

Popular Front deputy Vladimir Shkvarilyuk also owns real estate in the capital. He bought the apartment in July 2016, but allegedly did not make repairs in 2 years, so he is asking for compensation, supposedly for rent.

Opoblykivets Dmitry Kolesnikov and his wife have two apartments of almost 250 sq.m. in the capital's house near the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, but the people's deputy claims that he lives in Krivoy Rog, travels to Kyiv and allegedly lives in a hotel.

One of the richest deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, ex-regional, and now a member of the Revival party, Evgeniy Geller, has an entire palace with its own park in Kozin, but receives monthly compensation from taxpayers.

Or the person involved in the “amber case”, MP from the “People’s Front” Maxim Polyakov, who lives in a penthouse on 227 sq.m. in the capital's residential complex "Crystal Park". This apartment is officially the home of Polyakov’s sister. But Polyakov’s sister, as NABU detectives established, received 11 million hryvnia for the purchase of a penthouse from Polyakov’s own assistant.

The owner of a metropolitan apartment with 20 million savings, Arkady Kornatsky with BPP, and Alexander Presman, whose family fortune is almost 57 million hryvnia, not taking into account Maybach, Bentley, Porsche Cayenne, Range Rover and the metropolitan apartment, receive 80 thousand monthly.

It is noted that some of the deputies prudently registered the property in the name of relatives. For example, people's deputy from the BPP Ruslan Demchak. The elegant estate near Kiev, with a swimming pool and sports ground, which Ruslan Demchak uses, is registered to his father, a former physical education teacher.

Kyiv apartments were registered in the name of wives and other relatives and millionaire MPs receive compensation: Vadim Nesterenko (BPP), Anton Kisse (Vozrozhdenie), Vitaly Barvinenko (Vozrozhdenie), Stanislav Berezkin (deputy group “Will of the People”), Igor Brichenko (People’s Front) Alexander Dolzhenkov (Opposition Bloc), Yuriy Odarchenko (Batkivshchyna), Ivan Rybak (BPP), Vladislav Sevryukov (BPP), Oleg Musiy.

At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada apparatus, while distributing 20 thousand hryvnia a month, does not even check whether the deputy or his family owns capital housing.

“The provision of people’s deputies with certificates from the hotel or the owner of the property for reporting on the funds spent, as well as inspections by the Administration of the Verkhovna Rada Administration, are not provided for by the law on the status of a people’s deputy,” said First Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Administration Petr Bodnar.