Anti-corruption investigators are looking into the assets of Vitkovsky, the deputy head of environmental inspectors in Lviv Oblast, who owns a large amount of cryptocurrency
Ukrainian banking institutions have received a request from anti-corruption activists to search for bank accounts and transactions made in favor of or on behalf of the first deputy head of the State Environmental Inspection in Lviv Oblast — Valeriy Vitkovsky, first deputy chief state
inspector for environmental protection of the Lviv Region at the State Environmental Inspection (SEI). Financial transactions involving his family members are also being investigated.
Sources told UA.News about the start of the investigation.
The relevant request asks for information regarding the existence of accounts, their account numbers, the balances in those accounts, transactions conducted through them, the purpose of payments, the counterparty’s identification details, the counterparty’s account number, and the counterparty’s bank code.
The anti-corruption agency is also interested in the balances of securities and other assets in the Sochka family’s accounts, data on fund transfers between accounts, payment purposes, counterparty account numbers, and the counterparty codes of professional participants in the capital markets and organized commodity markets.
Declaration
The 2025 declaration states that Valerii Vitkovskyi, First Deputy Chief State Inspector for Environmental Protection of the Lviv Region, owns two residential properties, and together with his wife, they own three additional land plots with a total area of nearly 3,000 square meters.
The family owns only one car.
However, they hold securities in LLC “TRADING AND MANUFACTURING FIRM ‘MEBLI’,” Joint-Stock Bank “Lviv,” the companies ABAZIA Tourism Private Limited and ABAZIA Apartment Club Tourism.
Valeriy Vitkovskyy also invests in cryptocurrencies. Six such holdings have been declared.
As a reminder, Ukrainian banking institutions previously received a request from anti-corruption officials to search for bank accounts and transactions conducted for the benefit of or on behalf of Vyacheslav Sochka, as well as members of his family. This likely refers to the deputy head of the Berehove Department of the State Migration Service in Zakarpattia Oblast.
Anti-corruption investigators are examining the assets of the family of Yuriy Shchygol, the former head of the State Special Communications Service.
They have also launched an investigation into the lifestyle of Oleksandr Gusarov, head of the Pechenizka Special Administrative District.
