The leadership of the National Academy of Internal Affairs has misappropriated service apartments intended for beneficiaries, - media

The leadership of the National Academy of Internal Affairs has misappropriated service apartments intended for beneficiaries, - media

The management of the National Academy of Internal Affairs allocated official apartments among themselves in a residential complex, the construction of which was previously explained as necessary to provide housing for beneficiaries and veterans.

This is reported by Bihus.info.

In 2017, the National Academy of Internal Affairs decided to demolish dormitories and an educational building in Kyiv on Kudryashova (Mokra) Street 8-10, and in cooperation with a developer, build a residential complex in their place. This decision was justified by the fact that the dormitories were old and unusable, and the Academy needed housing for its employees. There were 250 families of employees in the housing queue, 90% of whom were beneficiaries (combat veterans, ATO participants, police, Chernobyl survivors, etc.).

The first of the two buildings in the "City Hub" residential complex was put into operation in 2024, and by summer, the Academy received the first 18 apartments. The housing was immediately privatized by employees who were de jure in the "housing queue" and allegedly living in dormitories, but de facto, numerous properties were discovered for them and their relatives.

The largest of the apartments received by the Academy, a "two-room" apartment of 87 sq.m, was given to Inna Shrub, the deputy director for part-time education. This wasn’t her first privatized apartment. In 2017, she had already received housing, but in 2024 she gifted it to the Academy and received a bigger and more expensive apartment in the new residential complex, which she "needed" so much that she sold it just two months later (market value – about $130,000). According to Shrub’s declaration, her family had long lived in another new building in an apartment registered in her mother’s name. In total, Shrub’s parents and sister own nine apartments.

A record for selling a privatized apartment was set by Oleksiy Fedchenko, a senior lecturer at the National Academy of Internal Affairs. After receiving a state apartment, he sold it literally within three weeks, refusing to explain the reasons. However, they can be found in official registries – his wife already owns three apartments in Kyiv, a profitable pharmaceutical business, and a Land Rover Discovery worth one and a half million. In total, the couple has declared enough funds that they could just buy such an apartment instead of taking it from the state.

Another apartment in the residential complex was received by Yuriy Myronets, the head of the Information and Technical Support Department of the National Academy of Internal Affairs. He registered with the formulation "living in a dormitory." He remained in the queue even after he became the owner of a two-room apartment in "Orange Park" residential complex in Kryukivshchyna, near Kyiv, in 2019. This apartment was written off in 2024 by selling it to his own father-in-law, and he continued to live there. After that, he received an apartment in the "City Hub" residential complex. Interestingly, Myronets is currently also building a private house in Kryukivshchyna.

Nina Reshetynska, the head of the Procurement and Tender Department of the National Academy of Internal Affairs, also received a new apartment. She registered in 2018 with the same popular reason – "living in a dormitory." Although at that time she declared that her family was building a private house in Horenychi, an expensive and popular village among officials near Kyiv. The house was put into operation back in 2020, which did not prevent Reshetynska from receiving an apartment from the state in 2024.

The logic of distributing apartments to employees of the National Academy of Internal Affairs has always raised many questions. The current rector, Ruslan Serbin, lives in a 400 square meter house registered in his mother’s name. However, he once received an apartment in another residential complex of the Academy - "Pearl of the Cadet Grove." This residential complex was also built on the land of the Academy, following the same principle as "City Hub," so many apartments there were allocated to Academy employees. There, the wife of the pro-rector, Stanislav Mozolya, also privatized an apartment, although at that time the Mozolya family had a total of 6 apartments, 2 houses, and even a hotel near Bukovel.

In the same residential complex at one time, another pro-rector, Andriy Zapototskyi, received an official apartment. Now he lives in a private house registered to a fellow villager, and the family privatized the official apartment, sold it, and used the funds for investment in real estate, including abroad.