Court Halts Confiscation of 8 Million Hryvnia in Assets Belonging to Odessa Customs Officer Hrynchyshyn
Serhiy Hrynchyshyn, the former head of a department at the Odesa Customs Office, resigned from his post and declared over $240,000 in cash amid civil forfeiture proceedings.
The High Anti-Corruption Court ruled that the assets of the official and his son were unjustified; however, the state budget has not yet received the millions recovered due to the suspension of enforcement proceedings.
Currently, the former customs official’s defense team is attempting to have the previous court rulings fully overturned in the appellate court.
A high-profile corruption scandal erupted after the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK) and prosecutors uncovered the customs officer’s family’s substantial wealth, which significantly exceeded their official incomes.
In 2021, Serhiy Hrynchyshyn and his wife Halyna, who also worked at the customs office, purchased a luxury apartment in Odesa with an area of 103.8 square meters.
At the same time, their son, who serves as deputy chairman of the Obukhiv District Council, became the owner of a 105.5-square-meter apartment in Kyiv and a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid.
The officials hastily registered all these expensive assets in the name of a close relative born in 1937—Klavdiya Vlasova.
None of the family members could explain the source of the funds for these purchases, and after official monitoring of their lifestyle began, the assets were urgently resold to third parties.
As a result, the High Anti-Corruption Court ruled that assets worth over 8.5 million hryvnias were unjustified. This decision took effect only in January 2026, but the actual seizure of property in favor of the state never took place.
The State Enforcement Service completely halted the process of recovering funds at the request of the former official’s defense.
Marina Franchuk, an official with the Primorsky Department of the State Enforcement Service in Odesa, issued the relevant decision based on a petition from attorney Maria Vares, who is challenging the ruling of the High Anti-Corruption Court’s Appeals Chamber.
While the cassation appeal is pending, Serhiy Hrynchyshyn quietly resigned from the customs service in February 2026 and filed a final declaration listing staggering amounts of cash.
This was reported by Absolution Leaks.
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