October 11 National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced wanted by the former mayor of Odessa Alexey Kostusev.
The wanted card states that Kostusev appears in criminal proceedings opened under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: embezzlement, embezzlement of property or taking it by abuse of official position, as well as official forgery.
People’s Deputy from European Solidarity Alexey Goncharenko, who is the son of Kostusev, reported today on Telegram that Kostusev is accused of helping to privatize the Odessa airport.
“Then I was a deputy of the Odessa regional council and publicly opposed this deal,” he wrote.
Goncharenko also explained that he had not seen his father since 2009, and his parents divorced when the current people’s deputy was three years old.
On August 29, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported that they had exposed a scheme to take over Odessa International Airport and profits from its operation in 2012–2022 amounting to more than UAH 2.5 billion.
According to the investigation, in 2011, a group of people, which included the mayor of Odessa at that time, his deputy, the head of one of the limited liability companies and two businessmen, developed and implemented a criminal scheme, as a result of which the airport property complex “passed from the ownership of the territorial community into common ownership of the city and so-called private investors.”
Context:
Kostusev was the mayor of Odessa from 2010 to 2013. In October 2013, he left this post on his own initiative; later he ended up in Lithuania, she wrote “Dumskaya”. Kostusev was elected to the Verkhovna Rada three times: in 1998, 2006 and 2007.
2023-10-14 21:22:11
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