The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine has detained former Odesa military commissar Yevhen Borysov. He is suspected of illicit enrichment worth millions of hryvnias, as well as intentional evasion from service.
Source. This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation.
Borysov's activities as Odesa's military commissar drew a lot of criticism, and the investigation into him became the subject of heated discussion in Ukrainian society.
He managed to hide from the investigation for two days. According to the Unian news agency, the former military commissar tried to change his phone numbers, cars and his location. Currently, the prosecutor's office will demand that he be taken into custody without the right to bail.
If found guilty, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
On June 22, Ukrayinska Pravda published an investigation entitled "Battalion Spain," which stated that the family of Yevhen Borysov, the head of Odesa's military enlistment office, had purchased real estate on the Spanish coast and prestigious cars worth millions of euros after the Russian invasion.
After this information was made public, Borysov was removed from office, and the State Bureau of Investigation opened proceedings on the fact of illegal enrichment.
However, after the investigation was published, the spokeswoman for the Armed Forces' South Military Command, Natalia Humeniuk, said that an internal audit found no grounds for his removal from office and that Borisov would continue to perform his duties.
However, the very next day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted to the scandal, ordering the immediate dismissal of the scandalous military commissar, "whom our whole country is talking about."
Zelensky added that he had ordered the creation of a commission to check all military commissars in all regions of Ukraine, "so that they do not disgrace our state and the memory of the heroes who are dying at the front."
On June 28, Natalia Humeniuk reported that Borysov had been dismissed from his post.
Background. As reported, the State Bureau of Investigation served a notice of suspicion of illicit enrichment on a former Odesa military commander, who faces up to 10 years in prison.