NABU investigates Tyshchenko’s illicit enrichment of over UAH 30 million. His property was seized
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) is currently investigating the alleged illicit enrichment of MP Mykola Tyshchenko by more than UAH 30 million, as well as the facts of his false declaration. According to the investigation, the property was registered to the former owner of the Velour restaurant, Serhii Vakalchuk.
According to Censor.NET, this is stated in the decisions of the High Anti-Corruption Court and confirmed by the interlocutors of Slovo i Dilo in law enforcement agencies.
As indicated, in April 2024, the NABU began investigating a case in which the facts of alleged enrichment of MP Tyshchenko in the amount of more than UAH 30 million and false declarations are being investigated. In particular, thedetectives are investigating the facts that Vakalchuk, the former director of the Velour restaurant, received an apartment of almost 100 square meters in Kyiv in a house at 43 Pavlo Skoropadskoho Street, where the restaurant used to be located; two land plots and a 322-square-meter house in Kozyn, near Kyiv, as well as a 2016 Mercedes-Benz V250 worth UAH 1.62 million.
According to detectives, Vakalchuk received property worth almost UAH 9 million, but its market value is even higher. An analysis of his income showed that he could not have acquired such property. In addition, Bihus.info journalists recorded that Vakalchuk's property was used by MP Tyshchenko and his wife.
Therefore, detectives received temporary access to items that were seized by investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation during searches of Tyshchenko and his wife as part of the case of beating a military officer in Dnipro. In particular, to Tyshchenko's cell phones, some of which he broke during the search; cash in the amount of $491,550 and 390,100 euros, as well as an Audemars Piguet wristwatch. The NABU requested that this property be seized as it was material evidence in the case. The court arrested it.
Tyshchenko's case
As a reminder, Mykola Tyshchenko is currently under round-the-clock house arrest.
On June 20, in the city of Dnipro, a group of unidentified people attacked a former Kraken special forces soldier, Dmytro Pavlov (Son), while he was walking with his child. The footage shows that the alleged guards of MP Mykola Tyshchenko, with whom Pavlov had a dispute, were involved.
The scandalous video from Dnipro, in which MP Mykola Tyshchenko's bodyguards attacked the former military man and illegally detained him, also featured Evelina Andrievska, the MP's assistant.
On the morning of June 25, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that MP Mykola Tyshchenko had been notified of suspicion over the events in Dnipro on June 20. The agency said that the MP was notified of suspicion of unlawful deprivation of liberty of the victim (part 2 of Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
On Wednesday, July 3, the Kyiv Court of Appeal decided to keep MP Mykola Tyshchenko under round-the-clock house arrest.
