16.11.2024 Investigations Kharkiv

Yegorova-Lutsenko: restaurants in France, millions on crypto wallets and NACP’s cover-up

Тетяна Єгорова-Луценко бере участь у 159 пленарному засіданні Комітету Європейських Регіонів – ХАРКІВСЬКА ОБЛАСНА РАДА

The head of the Kharkiv regional council from the Servants of the People party, Yegorova-Lutsenko, took advantage of the war to enrich herself:

  • legalized funds with the involvement of the notorious crypto fraudster Prylepa,
  • forged a contract for the sale of a restaurant in Nice,
  • avoided paying taxes in France and Ukraine,
  • entered false information in the declaration and
  • repeatedly organized illegal border crossings, in particular to help key witness Klyuchko escape with the support of Governor Sinegubov.

But first things first.

The media has long reported that during the war, Yegorova-Lutsenko acquired a number of assets, including companies in Poland and a restaurant in Nice.

For example, in the state judicial register of legal entities in Poland, Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy, a legal entity in the form of L FOREST GROUP LLC with the registration number 0000414319 and the authorized capital of 5000 PLN is registered for Lutsenko’s husband Vitaliy. The Polish company was founded in Gdansk back in 2012, but neither the head of the Kharkiv Regional Council nor her husband has ever indicated that they owned 100% of the corporate rights of this company.

At the beginning of the war, Yegorova-Lutsenko’s husband illegally crossed the border as a volunteer from the Zachepylivka district public organization Football Club Kolos.

However, neither HOVA, which certified and entered the information into Shlyakh, nor the border guards were alerted to the fact that the NGO was not actually functioning and was only a way to smuggle fugitives abroad. The latter is evidenced by the list of pseudo-benefactors who had already left but never returned.

In France, during his illegal departure as a volunteer, Vitaliy Lutsenko, the husband of the Head of the Kharkiv Regional Council – Yegorova-Lutsenko Tetiana Petrivna – purchased shares and was appointed President of the company MIDI AU SOLEIL, which owns a restaurant on the waterfront of Cannes (France). Cannes (France). By the way, Lutsenko is a resident of France and a co-owner and beneficiary of another company LE FOLIE’S, which owns a nightclub-restaurant in Nice (France) called No Name.

Again, this information is not contained in Yegorova-Lutsenko’s declaration.

To manage her foreign business, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Council regularly traveled to Europe with her husband under the guise of business trips or “sent him” with her driver Kliuchko. Permission for such non-volunteer trips was personally issued by Governor Sinehubov, who was quite likely aware of the true motives of the case.

The Lutsenko’s trips were always organized under the guise of “volunteer activities” in a Skoda Superb car rented by the regional council from the State Design Bureau “Derzhprom” at a rate of 120 UAH per day and 12 UAH per kilometer. All expenses for accommodation, meals, and even the driver’s salary were covered by the budget.

Transferring the business to third parties

When a scandal broke out around a restaurant in Nice, Yegorova sent her husband to France to transfer the corporate rights to the company to a well-known fraudster, Bohdan Prylepa.

By the way, Prylepa is suspected of misappropriating funds raised for drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, treason, and organizing a cryptocurrency scam worth about a billion hryvnias.

In the French contract of 05/24/2022, to conceal the real amount of the transaction, the symbolic price of “250 euros” was indicated, although, according to the data received, only one of the payments made by Prylepa in cryptocurrency on 04/12/2022 amounted to 422 thousand USDT!

The total amounts on Yegorova’s crypto accounts are estimated at $11 million and $64 million. And this is also in the shadow of the declaration.

Removal of witnesses?

In February 2023, in order to hide a key witness from the investigation, Yegorova organized the departure of her driver Klyuchko abroad in their Mercedes AX 7914 ME driven by her husband, from where he never returned. This is evidenced not only by the information of the border guards, but also by the photos from traffic cameras.

Law enforcement cover-up

It is known that the DBR, SBU and NABU had information about these violations, but it seems that the top criminals among the Servants of the People remain protected.

Another official, NAPC head Pavlushchyk, drew up a fictitious report of violation in the amount of UAH 3 million for show (as the case gained a lot of publicity), while the real damage reaches millions of dollars. Moreover, he “did not notice” signs of corruption in the use of a driver abroad and numerous illegal trips at public expense. So far, no international requests or instructions have been sent. Is it worth increasing funding for anti-corruption agencies if they receive income not only from salaries?

Based on our materials on the organization of illegal crossing of the border through FC Kolos, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office registered a criminal offense in the URPTI under No. 42024220000000228 on the grounds of a criminal offense under Part 3 of Art. 3 of Art. 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. But will local law enforcement be able to confront the “elite” in power with the cover of central anti-corruption officials?

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