While the war rages in his home country, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko has bought a luxury villa in Hamburg for several million euros. This report causes a lot of controversy in Ukraine.
The house is located in the affluent Hamburg-Othmarschen district. The value of the building: almost 5.5 million euros. The building has a total area of about 750 square meters, German media report. This angered many compatriots in the war-torn country: many social media users demanded that Klitschko donate his surplus money to the Ukrainian army.
“Debt repayment in non-monetary form”
Klitschko hasn’t spent any money on the luxury real estate. The former world boxing champion received the property as a debt settlement from the company Maximum I LLC, which belonged to Klitschko’s brother Wladimir until May 2023. Vitali Klitschko then took over the management company. The villa was then transferred as part of a “debt repayment in non-monetary form”. Ukrainian media found out about this due to changes in ownership status in the local population register.
Villa is now owned by Klitschko’s ex-wife
But he could not enjoy his new property for long – because the mayor transferred the property in Hamburg to his ex-wife Natalia Yegorowa shortly afterwards, according to the online medium “Ukrainskaya Pravda”. In return, his ex-wife gave him a house in Lyutish, Ukraine – a suburb of Kiev – and a Land Rover Discovery 3.0.
The transactions were all legal, but still caused a stir. Some people criticized that “Klitschko enriches himself while soldiers die at the front.” The mayor himself has not yet commented on the matter.
Opening registration registers to fight corruption
About a month ago, access to the population register was opened to combat corruption in Ukraine. The proposal came from President Volodymyr Zelensky and parliament subsequently adopted amendments to the law on disclosure of information. This means that all citizens can track whether there have been any changes in asset status.
Source: Krone
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