Nardepka Viktoria Syumar hides expenses for an estate near Kyiv from the NACP (photo)
In his declarations, Syumar declares a "cottage house" with an area of 226 square meters as an object of unfinished construction.
People’s deputy from the “European Solidarity” faction Viktoria Syumar, together with her husband, former first deputy mayor of Irpen Dmytro Khrystiuk, built an estate in the village of Lebedivka near Kyiv. However, they do not declare how much money was spent on its construction, informs BlackBox OSINT Investigations Project.
According to Syumar’s declaration for 2020, her husband, having no sources of income and savings, purchased 1,374 square meters of land in the village of Lebedivka, Vyshgorod District for UAH 137,000. The market value of such a plot can reach 25 thousand dollars. In the same year, Syumar declared expenses for building materials in the amount of UAH 320,000 for the purchase of spruce glued timber. Since then, she declares a “cottage house” with an area of 226 square meters as an object of unfinished construction.
The investigators went to the place and made sure that the construction of the house had already been completed. Moreover, there are two houses on the plot, one of which is probably a guest house. According to BlackBox OSINT data, Sjumar and her husband have lived in this estate intermittently since 2022. Declaring the estate as unfinished allows the deputy not to indicate the real costs of its construction, which, according to the investigators, could amount to at least 200 thousand dollars.
In 2021, the couple purchased another apartment with an area of 90 square meters in the center of Kyiv on Hrushevsky Street for UAH 4,617,000. Syumar, apart from the salary of a people’s deputy, which is about UAH 500,000 per year, has no other official income. Her husband Dmytro Hrystiuk, after his dismissal amid the corruption scandal in Irpen, had no income and did not declare any savings.
In 2018, Victoria Syumar was already involved in a corruption scandal, when activists of the “Chesno” movement discovered her estate with its own lake on a plot of half a hectare in the Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka village near Kyiv. This estate was registered for her unemployed mother Lidia Melnyk, but in fact Syumar herself lived there with Dmytro Khrystiuk.
The BlackBox OSINT investigation raises serious questions about the transparency and honesty of Victoria Sjumar’s declarations, revealing significant discrepancies between official data and the real state of affairs.
