The state might seize the property owned by the balance
The mayor of Kherson and Vladimir Saldo, after the city was captured by Russian troops, started to set up authorities and could potentially lose his property as a result of a case of treason. A news investigation by 368.media revealed this information about his business ties.
Saldo is not only known for being a former mayor with pro-Russian views, he is also one of the wealthiest individuals in the Kherson region. He has a number of companies and real estate both in and beyond Kherson, which are registered under the names of family members and nominees. Since 1998, Vladimir Saldo has exclusively held government positions, serving as a deputy of the Kherson City Council, deputy chairman of the Kherson State Administration for housing and communal services and construction, mayor, and a people's deputy of Ukraine.
As a public official, he was explicitly forbidden by law from conducting business. However, over the course of Sald's political career, his family has acquired numerous business assets and thousands of square meters of real estate, particularly on the Black Sea coast.
During Saldo's time as mayor of Kherson, his family obtained two apartments and a large house in Kherson, as well as two apartments in Kyiv. The family also possesses a three-room apartment in the Odessa residential complex “New Arcadia”. In addition, Saldo's wife purchased a cottage in Crimea near Alushta and apartments in the Yalta village of Voskhod, in a complex built by the Crimean speaker Vladimir Konstantinov's Konsol firm.
When Saldo became a people's deputy, the family acquired another three-room apartment and two parking spaces in Yalta, within the elite residential complex Oreanda Plaza.
According to the register of legal entities, Lyubov Saldo is the owner of the company PJSC “Kashtan”, located in Korostyshev, Zhytomyr region. The company is involved in the extraction of decorative and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk, and slate, and owns real estate in the village of Beeches in the Malinsky district. As discovered by law enforcement in 2020, the company is conducting mining operations in the Bukovsky deposit without the necessary permission.
Lyubov Saldo is a co-founder of the Zhytomyr Association of Enterprises for the Extraction and Processing of Natural Stone “Zhytomyr Granite”. Russian citizen Anna Bdyuleva is listed as a partner in the association and also owns a 30% stake in Kherson PJSC Delta-Service, specializing in ancillary activities in the field of transport. The company owns four properties in the Kherson region, mainly on Karantinny Island.
The property owned by Balance might be confiscated
PJSC Delta-Service is involved in four criminal cases. The operations of another of Lyubov's companies, the prestigious Lyubava beauty salon, have been halted. The woman also resigned from being a founder of the Odessa law firm ILON-S.P.S.-88 LLC. Vladimir Saldo registered multiple businesses in the name of his daughter Irina Saldo, including Konka LLC, a company specializing in organizing recreation and entertainment. This company owns a house in the village of Antonovka near Kherson. Irina also, together with Vyacheslav Bebko and Anton Kushnir, owns Bebko-avto LLC, a company that sells cars. Irina Saldo has a stake in PJSC Design and Construction Company Khersonstroy, against which bankruptcy proceedings have been initiated. Previously, the company was implicated in a journalistic investigation into the seizure of land on the Black Sea coast. The mayor's daughter was also part of Lux Travel Education Job Management Group LLC, Dnipro Trading Company LLC, and Sea Deco LLC, all of which are involved in several criminal cases.
Local journalists associate Sergey Pozhaev with Vladimir Saldo, to whom a significant part of the family's business and real estate is registered. It was Pozhaev who for a long time was the nominal owner of the Bans state of emergency, which de facto belonged to Vladimir Saldo. The company has three properties on its balance sheet, two of which are located in the historical area of Kherson. Pozhaev is also the founder of KPD-5 S LLC, which appears in three criminal cases over the past three years. The company owns a building on the street. Lutheran in Kherson. Sergey Pozhaev owns a service cooperative ZhSK “ZhK Comfort Kherson”, which in turn owns land in the Kherson region. He also controls NPP Special Polymer Technologies LLC, registered in Kyiv and having one unidentified property. Today, Volodymyr Saldo is the chairman of the Kherson city public association of builders and investors “Stroyinvestsoyuz”, as well as the founder of the public organization “Our city is our home”. Balance on suspicion of collaboration. It was established that he, with the support of the armed formations of the Russian Federation and representatives of Russia, took a number of measures to prepare and organize the referendum. By the decree of the President, Saldo was included in the NSDC sanctions list.
The ex-mayor of Kherson, Saldo, was detained in the Dominican Republic
