The head of the "Servant of the People" (SP) party Olena Shulyak accepted the resignation of the MP Pavlo Halimon from the position of head of the Chernihiv regional organization of the "Servant of the People" party.
The party informed about this on January 23.
The acting chairman of the party branch will be appointed soon. The decision on the election of a new head of the regional organization will be made at the conference of the regional organization within the terms specified by the partyʼs charter.
Prior to that, the head of the faction David Arakhamiya informed about that Halimon would be dismissed from the post of deputy head of the "Servant of the People" faction against the background of the scandal involving the acquisition of the estate.
- On January 23, the publication "Ukraiinska Pravda" ["Ukrainian Truth"] published an investigation into the fact that in June 2022, Pavlo Halimon purchased a luxurious estate in the Pechersk Hills worth millions of hryvnias, registering it for another person — Anastasia Mykolaiivna Kotelenets. Journalists claim that Halimon really lives in the estate. The seller is Oleksandr Drabynko, a bishop of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. He allegedly sold the property cheaper because he needed money, and "no one gave the real price for many reasons."
- The house together with the land plot with an area of 10 acres cost 10.3 million hryvnias. At the same time, according to real estate sites, houses near the Botanical Garden of the same area cost about 50-60 million hryvnias.