A scheme to import cars under the guise of aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was uncovered in Volyn
In the Volyn region, law enforcement officials uncovered a scheme to illegally import passenger cars under the guise of humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the investigation, the organizer was the director of a charitable foundation who arranged for the import of cars from EU countries and recruited accomplices to sell them.
Between 2024 and 2026, approximately 100 cars were imported into Ukraine, declared as humanitarian aid. Some of them were registered in the foundation’s name and sold for cash.
During the searches, law enforcement officers seized 14 vehicles, mobile phones, documents, rough notes, computer equipment, and cash.
The seized vehicles have been impounded.
The investigation is ongoing under charges of smuggling and the use of forged documents.
As a reminder, earlier, a prosecutor from the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, based on materials from the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK) and independently gathered evidence, filed a lawsuit with the High Anti-Corruption Court seeking to declare as unjustified the assets used between 2023 and 2024 by Oleg Yashchuk, the former head of the detective division of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine, and his wife. The property used by the Yashchuk family was registered to a relative and a close friend of the official. The total value of the potentially illicitly acquired assets amounts to nearly 4 million hryvnias.
The declaration of Andriy Melnyk, deputy director of the State Property Fund’s department, lists assets worth billions of hryvnias, some of which are linked to Russia and the temporarily occupied territories. The official declared five tons of gold bars, which, according to him, are stored in Moscow, as well as 15 deposits of rare-earth metals in the occupied Luhansk region.
