Olha Stefanishyna. Photo: eu-ua.kmu.gov.ua
Olha Stefanishyna, President Zelenskyy’s Special Envoy for Cooperation with the United States, has said that after an Ukrainska Pravda investigation into her ex-husband Mykhailo Stefanishyn’s involvement in possible abuses by the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), she stopped communicating with him.
Source: Stefanishyna in an interview with European Pravda
Quote: “I am open to communication on this matter, and I want to emphasise that I have no connection to my ex-husband’s business or any of his activities.
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And although I had the opportunity, I made a point of not trying to find out what was happening at ARMA, what the National Anti-Corruption Bureau investigation was about, or what the details were. Because I don’t want to know about things that I have nothing to do with.
I have been divorced from my ex-husband for eight years, since 2017.
We kept in touch because he has only one official status for me: he is the father of my children. That is why we stayed in contact, specifically regarding the children.
But after the investigation was published in Ukrainska Pravda, he disappeared from our lives.”
Details: Ukrainska Pravda conducted an investigation into the involvement of Stefanishyna’s ex-husband, Mykhailo Stefanishyn, in possible abuses by ARMA. Ukrainska Pravda sources said that informally, Stefanishyn is presented as the shadow handler of ARMA’s office, and a company associated with him has already received four valuable assets under management.
The company in question is KAMparitet, a consortium which was selected as the manager of the Trade Union House on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv and the Flagman shopping centre in Ivano-Frankivsk.
The company also became the manager of the assets seized from Ukrainska Yahoda (Ukrainian Berry) LLC and commercial property in a high-rise building on Pavlivska Street in the capital.
In the interview, Stefanishyna also said that there would be significant changes in her property status in her declaration because on the day she left the government, she sold a plot of land that she had owned since 2007.
Stefanishyna’s declaration does indeed include a 1,000-sq-m plot in Nerubaiske, a village near Odesa.
She said this had freed up funds that she can now rely on for a certain period of time.
Background:
- Mykhailo Stefanishyn is the ex-husband of the former deputy prime minister. They divorced in…
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