Business trip or rest? People’s deputies are suspected of using business trips to travel to Italy

People’s deputy from “Batkivshchyna” Oleg Meydych may have gone on vacation to Italy twice, under the guise of business trips. As the journalists found out “Investigation. Info” based on the data of the court register and his own sources, during the trips to Belgium and Lithuania, the deputy did not appear in these countries. Instead, he and his wife probably spent time in Italy.
53-year-old Oleg Meydych, who holds the post of a people’s deputy from the “Batkivshchyna” VO and is the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy, received permits to travel abroad on business trips in the spring and summer of 2023, but it seems that these trips turned into vacations.
In accordance with data of the court registry, detectives of the State Security Bureau are conducting a pre-trial investigation into the possible introduction of false information into official documents related to the deputy’s trips.
The investigation showed that Meidych left Ukraine twice: from April 27 to May 5 and from July 17 to 27, 2023. Both times, the deputy violated the deadlines for returning from a business trip, which were established by the orders of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
According to the documents, Meidich was supposed to return from a trip to Belgium on May 1, but instead stayed until May 5. During another business trip to Lithuania, he stayed abroad twice as long as planned.
However, according to information gathered by journalists, Meidych did not visit Belgium or Lithuania, but was in Italy. On April 28, 2023, Oleh Meydych landed at Bologna airport, and on May 5, he left Italy through one of Milan’s airports. Traveling with him was his wife Tetiana Meidych, who also flew out of Bologna on the same day, but through a different airport.
When “Slidstva.Info” journalists tried to contact Oleh Meidych, a man who introduced himself as his assistant answered the call. He promised to pass on the information to the deputy, but did not make further contact. It is worth noting that the phone from which the call was made was registered in the name of Oleh Meidych. Tetyana Meidych also did not contact the journalists, who refused to answer questions and quickly ended the conversation.