This was reported by the NACP in response to our journalistic inquiry.
Recall that information about relatively disproportionate expenses that do not correspond to Vyacheslav Huz’s income appeared based on our investigation.
In 2016, Mr. Huz became the head of the Migration Service of Kharkiv city and Kharkiv region. Later, with the help of the declaration, we managed to find out that in 2016 Huz sold one of his apartments in Kharkiv.
He sold the apartment with a registered resident — that person being Huz’s mother, Larysa Huz. But the interesting fact is that he sold his apartment to Tetyana Pakhomova, his niece. The apartment is at the same address where his mother is registered. At that time, Pakhomova was a third-year student at Moscow State University – MSU.
The apartment story doesn’t end there. Later, Huz’s niece, Tetyana Pakhomova, invested in an apartment in an elite residential complex in Pechersk – Jack House – in 2017. That same year, Pakhomova graduated from the university in Moscow.
So, what does Tetyana Pakhomova do? She is a tattoo artist. She started tattooing in 2020 and has already managed to earn enough for an apartment in an elite residential complex in the capital’s Pechersk district.
You might say, well, wealthy parents? By profession, Tetyana Pakhomova’s mother, who is also Vyacheslav Huz’s sister, is an ophthalmologist, and her father is a traumatologist.
It is worth noting that issues of corruption and evasion of responsibility among employees of the capital’s migration service have been raised before.
As reported by NGL.media, Dmytro Lemesh, deputy head of the Kyiv migration service, was detained for bribery in early July 2022. According to the investigation, he and his brother-in-law systematically demanded $10,000–15,000 from foreigners for legalization in Ukraine.
During searches at Lemesh’s brother-in-law’s place, investigators seized over $100,000 and €12,700, which were later returned to him. Additionally, in this case, $190,000 was seized from the father of the head of the migration control department of the State Migration Service, Ihor Semynoh, who was a witness in the case.
After his detention, Dmytro Lemesh paid the court-determined bail of 2.5 million UAH and awaited the conclusion of the investigation while free. Meanwhile, the court denied the prosecution’s motion to suspend Lemesh from his position, so he continued working at the SMS.
Almost two years after Lemesh’s detention, the police investigators had not made significant progress, and the prosecution failed to submit the case to court on time. Therefore, on April 5, 2024, the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office issued a resolution to close the case due to the expiration of the pre-trial investigation period.
Two weeks later, the judge of the Halytskyi District Court of Lviv, Iryna Volosko, returned the 2.5 million UAH bail previously paid by Dmytro Lemesh.
45-year-old Dmytro Lemesh continues to serve as deputy head of the Central Interregional Department of the State Migration Service in Kyiv and Kyiv region, effectively as Vyacheslav Huz’s deputy.
Moreover, there is another indication of corruption in Ukraine’s migration service. According to NACP materials, the State Bureau of Investigation charged an official who held the position of head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the SMS of Ukraine in the Odesa region with declaring false information exceeding 83 million UAH.
The NACP analyzed the income and expenses of the official and his family and concluded that it was impossible to acquire the stated assets with funds obtained from legal sources.
