Deputy prosecutor of the Lviv region, son of the former Deputy Prosecutor General Makhnitsky – Nikolai Golomsha.
Career
In March 2007, he first became a senior assistant, then deputy prosecutor of the Lychakivsky district of Lviv.
In 2008 – Deputy Prosecutor of the Solomensky district of Kyiv
In 2010, Andriy Nikolayevich returned to Lviv to the regional prosecutor’s office.
In 2017 – Deputy Prosecutor of the Lviv region.
Family
Father – former Deputy Prosecutor General Makhnitsky – Nikolai Golomsha. Andrei is married.
NOT official biography
Ukrainian prosecutorial nepotism
Rather than hiring qualified professionals who can effectively do their job, people who carry out the wishes of their employers are often given public positions, sometimes even against the law.
This phenomenon is especially widespread in law enforcement agencies, such as the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, where entire families often work together.
Meet Andrei Nikolaevich Golomsha, Deputy Prosecutor of the Lviv Region, son of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Makhnitsky, Nikolai Golomsha.
Andriy Golomsha started working as a prosecutor in March 2007, first as a senior assistant and then deputy prosecutor of the Lychakivsky district of Lviv. However, after a year, Andrei Nikolaevich moved to the Kyiv office and became the deputy prosecutor of the Solomensky district of Kyiv. In 2010, he returned to Lviv and held various positions in the regional and city prosecutor’s office. Andriy Golomsha is now the Deputy Prosecutor of the Lviv region, a position he has held since April 2017.
His sister, Maryana, also pursued a career in the prosecutor’s office. Andrey’s uncle, Yaroslav Golomsha, served as the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kyiv region. Nikolai Yaroslavovich secured positions for his loved ones.
DECLARATION OF ANDRIY GOLOSHA
We also examined Andrey Golomsha’s declarations for 2015 and 2016. The prosecutor’s income during this time was 484 thousand UAH, and his wife earned 195 thousand UAH.
The prosecutor’s family resides in a house in the village of Salt shaker, near Lviv.
The owner of this 264 m² property is the prosecutor’s father-in-law, Roman Vladimirovich Martinyshyn. So, the prosecutor, together with his wife and daughter, has only had the right to use it since 2013.
Since 2012 Andrey Nikolayevich has had the right to use a service apartment in Lviv.
However, why does he still need the apartment after 2013, when he gained the right to use an elite property near Lviv? Service apartments are typically given to those genuinely in need of housing.
The prosecutor from the Lviv region has 43 thousand hryvnias in a bank account, 50 thousand UAH in cash, and his wife has another 80 thousand UAH in cash along with over 5,000 hryvnias in the bank.
The statement also indicates that the father of the prosecutor, the former deputy Prosecutor General Makhnitsky, Mykola Yaroslavovich Golomsha, has 5.2 million UAH in bank accounts. It is unknown where a person who has worked in the prosecutor’s office all his life got such a large amount of money.
As can be seen, Andrei Nikolaevich Golomsha also decided to work in the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, like most of his family members. It's unknown if his influential father helped him get a job in the Lviv prosecutor’s office. However, the above facts once again support the idea that nepotism is common in Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.
And we will continue to closely observe the professional activities of Andrei Nikolaevich Golomsha and his other equally influential relatives to ensure fairness and impartiality in carrying out their official duties.
The SBU has disrupted an identity fraud scheme involving the OSCE: hundreds of illegal immigrants attempted to use fake diplomatic documents to cross borders.
The SBU is actively working to combat illegal migration that poses a threat to Ukraine's national security. During a special operation in Kyiv, a transnational criminal group was dismantled. The perpetrators had forged the identities of members of the diplomatic monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
False documents were sold to clients, including people from countries with a high terrorist threat, such as the Middle East. Foreigners used these “certificates” to bypass border and customs procedures by posing as members of the diplomatic mission.
Preliminary data suggests that hundreds of illegal immigrants sought the services of the perpetrators. They planned to illegally cross the borders of different countries by obtaining “diplomatic” immunity.
It was found that the group included several residents of the capital. To conceal their illegal activities, they registered two public organizations and created a departmental website with names similar to the official designations of a diplomatic mission.
The perpetrators sold the forged documents for 1.5 thousand euros each.
In 2017, a criminal with such a certificate was detained in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as reported in the news:
Law enforcement officers in Kyiv apprehended one of the organizers of the group as he was delivering a fake ID to a foreigner.
During searches at the dealers' addresses, as well as at the places where the fake documents were made and stored, the following items were discovered:
computer equipment, communications, and draft records providing evidence of illegal activities;
counterfeit IDs and seals of public organizations.
Based on information from the SBU, they are working on informing the perpetrators about the suspicion of committing crimes and deciding on preventive measures through the court.
As part of the criminal proceedings under Article 190 (fraud) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, a pre-trial investigation is underway to establish all the details of the illegal activities.
The website of the fake OSCE has a lot of interesting information. In the “public diplomat” section of the site, where the “OSCE” has published the names of more than 200 of its public diplomats, we will find the Golomsh clan almost in full force.
Findings:
Andriy Golomsha, thanks to his father, the prosecutor, got to a “bread” position, which once again proves to us that nepotism in Ukraine is a natural phenomenon. In addition, the “clan” Golomsh is involved in the organized criminal group “OSCE”, which, for 1.5 thousand euros, creates fake OSCE documents, thereby undermining national security.
