Odessa city deputy Bogdan Giganov has been living in Russia for more than three years, where, according to the journalistic investigation " INFO " Despite this, he still officially retains the mandate of a deputy of Gorrada.

In 2020, Giganov was elected to the Odessa City Council from the prohibited party " Since then, he has not participated in the Rada meetings, does not receive citizens and does not submit annual declarations, which actually self -destroyed from the performance of his duties.

Journalists found out that the politician now lives in the Tyumen region of the Russian Federation, regularly visits Moscow and probably became a citizen of Russia. Representatives of the Kiborg community found that on March 17, 2023, in the city of Noyabrsk, he received a Russian passport. Information about the reality of this document was confirmed by the audit through the Russian state online service, an analogue of the Ukrainian "

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It is noted that Giganov used this passport for air travel within the Russian Federation. Reservation data indicate the use of the same e -mail that he previously used as a citizen of Ukraine. His wife also issued tickets to this address.

According to the investigators, after the start of the full -scale invasion of Russia, Giganov held senior positions in several Russian firms. As of November 2024, he heads the advertising agency " In the documents of the company, he is indicated as a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Attempts by journalists to contact Giganov did not give results - his account in the messenger disappeared after sending the message.

According to Ukrainian law, the very fact of obtaining citizenship of another state does not entail automatic loss of deputy powers. The decision to terminate citizenship should be made exclusively by the President. And if a person went to a permanent place of residence abroad without agreement with the migration service, this still needs to be proved in court.

Another option is to initiate the review of the deputy on a popular initiative in case of a long failure to fulfill his duties. But here a legal conflict arises: the political force that put forward Giganov is prohibited, and the corresponding party body, which should have made a decision on the recall, is liquidated.. Lawyer "

At the same time, he notes: anyone, including representatives of the city of Rada, has the right to apply to the head of state with a request to terminate the Ukrainian citizenship of Giganov. If such a request is satisfied, the mandate of the deputy will be automatically canceled.

The Secretary of the Odessa Gorrada Igor Koval said that he would inform the city head of Gennady Trukhanov and deputies about the released investigation in order to jointly find the mechanism of early deprivation of Giganov powers.

Recall that from the beginning of a full -scale invasion from Ukraine deputies Artem Dmitruk and Andrey Odarchenko left. Dmitruk, in particular, defended the interests of the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, and Odarchenko asked for asylum in Romania. In addition, during martial law, 13 deputies fled abroad:.

Vitaly Abramov - deputy of the Kharkov regional Rada;

Maxim Krivda - deputy of the Novomoskovsk District Rada in the Dnipropetrovsk region;

Stanislav Lebedev - Deputy of the Kharkov District Rada;

Igor Semenikhin - deputy of the Kherson Ryrad;

Sergey Petrov - deputy of the Soledaric City Rada;

Artem Sunduchnikov - deputy of the Dobropol city Rada in the Donetsk region;

Nazariy Piptik - deputy of the Chertkovskaya Gorrad;

Sergey Pashin - deputy of the Borispol city Rada of the Kyiv region;

Yuri Krasnozhon - deputy of the Pokrovskaya Ryrade in Krivoy Rog;

Svyatoslav Kutsenko - deputy of the Buchansk district Rada of the Kyiv region;

Boris Dovbeta - deputy of the Zolochevskaya Ryrade in Lvivshchina;

Vitaly Dorokhin - deputy of the Dniprovskaya district Rada;

Roman Reznik - deputy of the Saksaganskaya district Rada of Krivoy Rog.