Head of Odesa enlistment office who owns luxury properties in Spain is dismissed – official
Military commissar Yevhen Borysov, who was found to own luxury properties in Spain, has been dismissed from his position as Head of the Odesa Oblast Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Support [military enlistment office – ed.].
Source: Natalia Humeniuk, Head of the Coordination Press Centre of the security and defence forces in Ukraine's south, on Channel 24
Quote: "Colonel Borysov has been dismissed from the position of Head of the Odesa Oblast Oblast Territorial Recruitment Centre."
Details: Humeniuk added that Borysov’s deputy is currently the acting head of the Odesa Oblast Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Support. He will hold this position until a new head is appointed. The search for his replacement has already started, she reported.
Humeniuk added that law enforcement agencies are currently dealing with Borysov’s case.
Background:
- On 22 June, Ukrainska Pravda’s Spanish Battalion investigation revealed that the family of Yevhen Borysov, the chief enlistment officer in Odesa, had purchased property and cars worth millions of dollars on the Spanish coast during the full-scale war.
- On 23 June, Humeniuk reported that an internal investigation regarding Borysov found no grounds for his removal from office.
- Later on 23 June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhny to dismiss Borysov.
- The State Bureau of Investigations has opened an investigation into Borysov’s abuse of his position.
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