Which State Officials Received Housing in Lutsk in 2002-2011 (Part 3) (Photos)

Part 3

Which state officials received housing in Lutsk in 2002-2011 (part 3) (photos)

23.03.2015, 08:58

YuriyHorbach, ValentynaKuts, RivneAgencyforInvestigativeJournalismInformationalAgency

Fourth Power illustration (YuriyHorbach)

Having analyzed over 800 pages of housing decisions by the Lutsk City Council’s Executive Board, journalists from the Rivne Agency for Investigative Journalism Informational Agency (Fourth Power) found an entire squadron of upper and middle level officials who received apartments from the state. Read about the most famous ones in this part.

Housing appetite of Lutsk officials

In March 2002, in a decision made at a joint meeting of the administration and trade union of the regional department of education and science, a three bedroom apartment with a living area of 37.2 square meters was received HeorhiyHrushko, deputy head of the regional education and science department. The reasoning behind the urgent apartment provision was that he was an invited specialist.

Of course, he was not the only official of the Volyn Regional State Administration to receive an apartment. The journalists were surprised by the level of housing provision for top officials of the former chief financial department, now the finance department of Volyn Regional State Administration. Eight of 15 managers of the department were provided with housing, including service housing. This includedIhorNykytyuk, department director, who received a two bedroom apartment with a living area of 36.2 square meters. This happened in the middle of 2008, less than two years after IhorMykolayovych was registered on the waiting list.

A pretty big apartment in Lutsk was given to VolodymyrPanchyshyn, former deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration. At the end of 2003, he was given a three bedroom apartment with a living area of 66.6 square meters and garage of 19.6 square meters. The apartment was given to the official since he was a transferred specialist. While working on this material, we found this official still on a general waiting list to receive an apartment. HennadiyKozyuta, head of the Housing Fund Registry Department, promised “to figure out this issue.”

In 2003, an apartment was given to HalynaYakymchuk, another deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration. She also received a three bedroom apartment, but with a living area of 34.6 square meters. Housing was provided to her because she was a transferred specialist. This was also the reason for the allocation of a three bedroom apartment to one more deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, StepanRodych. He received housing with a living area of 47 square meters.

LiliyaYelova, current head of the finance and budget department of the Lutsk City Council, received a two bedroom apartment over 10 years ago. There was a decision by the Executive Board dated March 29, 2002 to change the status of the apartment allocated to her from dormitory status.

SerhiyKalush, former head of the education department of the Lutsk City Council, received his own living space. In January 2008, he was placed in an apartment with the status – executive board dormitory – downtown, but already in October 2009 its Executive Board dormitory status was removed. The official managed to do that before a huge corruption scandal involving him.

On the photo of the phone directory of the department, we marked the managers that received apartments from the state or service apartments. Of course, this is not all of the employees of the department who received housing.

Ivan Kubitskiy, director of housing and communal services department of the Lutsk City Council, literally built his apartment in previously nonresidential buildings of the Lutsk Housing and Communal Services division. In this way, in November 2009, this official received permission for the reconstruction, at his own expense, of a residential space at Housing and Communal Services Division #7 at 6 Brynskoho Street, and turned it into his own apartment. In less than a year, all of the work was done and the space with a living area of 24.5 square meters was given the status of Executive Doard dormitory and granted to Ivan Kubitskiy. In another month, in another decision, the City Executive Board was removed its dormitory status.

At the end of 2003, a three bedroom apartment in a building on Chornovola Street was given to Petro Filipchuk, current head of the chief department of the Pension Fund in Volyn region, who had held that position for many years. Back then, over 10 years ago, he was allocated an apartment with a living area of 49.2 square meters, a garage of 22.1 square meters and basement of 11 square meters. The apartment was given to Petro Filipchuk’s family of seven. At that time, this official already owned a privatized three bedroom of 41.5 square meters.

A three bedroom apartment with a living area of 43.7 square meters was received by AndriyTymeychuk, former first deputy head of the State Tax Administration in Volyn region. This official turned this deal very quickly: at the end of 2007 he received it as a service apartment, but already in July 2008 it was removed from the service housing fund. It is interesting that in AndriyTymeychuk’s income declaration in 2012, he had two apartments: one owned by him with a total area of 15.245 square meters and another owned by members of his family with a total area of 76.2 square meters.

Mykhailo-MyroslavLemishchak, chief treasurer of the region, received his own housing too. He received it as service housing more than 10 years ago while working for the tax inspectorate, but moved it out of the service housing fund in September 2005. It was a four bedroom apartment with a living area of 69.3 square meters. Now Mykhailo-MyroslavLemishchak is the head of the Chief Department of the State Treasury Service in Volyn region.

VolodymyrHrushovinchuk, one more current manager and head of the State Service of Emergency Situations in Volyn region, received a three bedroom service apartment on Striletska Street in December 2005. By the way, this was in the same building where apartments were given to prosecutor AndriyHil and policemen OleksandrSpravedlyviy and MykhailoLebid. In February 2007, this apartment’s service housing status was removed.

Because he was moved out of a house that was too old, YevhenZhovtulya, former head of the Labor and Social Protection Division of the Lutsk City Council, received a two bedroom apartment at the end of October 2004. VolodymyrHoncharov, former director of the Lutsk Zoo, received a two bedroom apartment on ZoyaKosmodemyanska Street. At the end of 2002, the apartment’s dormitory status was removed.

In May 2002, a four bedroom apartment in the building at 6 Kyiv Square was given to YuriyKoval, first deputy head of the State Tax Inspectorate at that time. Of course, the apartment did not keep its service housing status for long, in September 2006 it was removed. At that time, the wife and family of the official had two private apartments in Novovolynsk.

Ivan Korchuk, current director of the communal enterprise Lutskvodokanal, also improved his housing conditionsin the past. In June 2002, he received a three bedroom apartment in the same new building at 6 Kyiv Square. In return, with a gift agreement, he gave his two bedroom apartment to the regional state administration.

It is interesting that Ivan Korchuk has been working in the communal sphere for many years. In 1996, he was appointed head of the Housing Department of the State Housing Committee of Ukraine. Then he worked at the State Committee on Construction, Architecture and Housing Policy of Ukraine. After holding the position of deputy head of the regional Construction and Technical Inventory Department, he headed the regional department of Housing and Communal Services and then the department of capital construction of the regional state administration. In 2006-2007, he was deputy mayor of the city of Lutsk. Since 2007, he has been the head of communal enterprise Lutskvodokanal.

In 2002- 2011, many apartments were given to employees of the housing and communal services department of the city. This included the management of the divisions. We managed to find at least one such manager in the decisions of the city’sExecutive Board – VolodymyrPetruk, former director of Housing and Communal Services Division #3, who received a one bedroom service apartment in 2007. It is unknown whether its service housing status was removed or not.

Eduard Koval, head of the department fighting illegal product turnover of the tax police department of the State Tax Inspectorate in Volyn region, also used his right to receive an apartment. In 2002, he received a three bedroom service apartment, which in 2005 was removed from the service housing fund. In return, he gave the tax administration his privatized two bedroom apartment.

In August 2011, a three bedroom apartment was given to Inna Mishchuk, head of the legal provision activity department of the Volyn RegionalCouncil. Part of this housing, 6.9 square meters, was paid by her at her own expense. In December 2004, a two bedroom apartment purchased at the cost of the regional council was received by KostyantynLotsman, head of the press service of Volyn Regional Council, at that time. Now he is the director of the informational service of the Volyn Regional State TV & Radio Company.

Whoreceivedtwoapartments?

In the heap of documents, we managed to find some people who received two apartments in Lutsk. In general, there are more of them than presented in the infographic, but we paid attention specifically to people in government institutions.

Two one-bedroom apartments were received in 2002 and 2004 by Oksana Bereshchak, an employee of the previously mentioned Chief Financial Department of the Volyn Regional State Administration. She had been on the waiting list since 1993. At first, she settled into a one bedroom apartment on Sobornosti Street, which was later privatized. In 2004, she was given one more one-bedroom apartment on Voli Avenue.

MykolaShkuropat, former head of the city police department and later deputy head and head of the public safety police department in Volyn region, also received two apartments for himself. In October 2005, when he was still the head of the city police department, MykolaShkuropat received a one bedroom service apartment on Vidrodzhennya Avenue. At that time, his family already had a three bedroom apartment in the city Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region. In less than a year, MykolaShkuropat moved this one bedroom apartment out of the service housing fund.

One more apartment, this time a three bedroom one, was given to MykolaShkuropat when he worked in the position of deputy head of the police in the region and head of the public safety police department. In October 2009, he was given a service apartment with a living area of 46.1 square meters on Lypynskoho Street. It is interesting to note that at that time this official was registered not at his previously received one bedroom apartment, but at a dormitory on Kovelska Street and actually lived in a rented apartment. In a year and a half, this three bedroom apartment had the same fate as the previous one – it was moved out of the service housing fund and, most likely, privatized.

VasylOsipuk, judge at the Appellate Court of Volyn, also managed to receive two apartments in Lutsk. He received his first two bedroom apartment in 2002 from the Volyn Regional Afghan Veterans Union as a participant in military action. At that time, the judge lived in Manevychiy.

In a few years, in 2007, VasylOsipuk, thanks to a request from the Appellate Court, was supposed to receive a three bedroom apartment on Kravchuka Street. The apartment, which was provided by the Afghan Veterans Union, according to a decision by the city’s Executive Board on November 29, 2007, was given away by the judge.

However, on September 5, 2008 a new decision by the city’s Executive Board was released, which partially repeated the previous one. In that decision, it said that the aforementioned three bedroom apartment on Kravchuka Street should be given to the judge in accordance with a decision by the Rivne City Court and a Resolution ‘On Opening a Reinforcement Case’ on August 22, 2008. One more interesting detail: in that decision, it was stated that in the two bedroom apartment that had been given by the Afghan Veterans Union, his father, VasylPetrovychOsipuk, still resided.

Two apartments in Lutsk were received by another police employee – Viktor Nikityuk, former deputy head to the chief of the department/head of the on-duty police division in Volyn region. We know that back in August 2002 he moved a one bedroom apartment on Peremohy Avenue out of the Department Fighting Organized Crime’s housing fund. In July 2005, Viktor Nikityuk received a two bedroom service apartment in a newly built building on Hordiyuk Street. It is interesting to note that in the decision it said that at that time Viktor Nikityuk was temporarily not registered in Lutsk, while his wife and children lived in the village Prylutske in Kivertsi district. It was the same decision when housing was given away to almost all management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region. This decision in particular, in the part where it granted the apartment to Nikityuk, was challenged by the prosecutor. However, the City Council declined the challenge.