A 41-year-old woman has been charged with corruption. She faces fines or imprisonment, along with restrictions on holding certain positions.

The illegal actions of the suspect were uncovered by investigators from the Main Investigative Department of the National Police in the Odesa region in collaboration with the National Agency for Corruption Prevention.

Investigators found that while serving as the head of a department in the Odesa City Council, the woman intentionally submitted false information in her annual declarations for the years 2022 and 2023. Specifically, she failed to report her ownership of eight land plots, two vehicles, corporate rights in three enterprises, over two million hryvnias in income, as well as two apartments owned by her and her son.

The total value of the concealed assets amounts to 9 million 495 thousand 215 hryvnias.

At the beginning of the current year, the official resigned from her position. Currently, investigators have informed the suspect of charges related to the intentional submission of false information in the declaration of a person authorized to perform local government functions, as stipulated by the Law of Ukraine on Corruption Prevention, when such information differs from the truthful data by an amount ranging from 500 to 2000 living minimums. According to the sanction of Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, the woman faces fines or imprisonment, along with a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in specific activities for up to three years.

The investigation is ongoing. The procedural supervision is conducted by the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office.