The deputy of the Kherson City Council Illia Karamalikov, who was detained for a long time on charges of treason, after leaving the pre-trial detention center (SIZO) submitted a series of declarations. On the NACP website he published reports for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
MOST analyzed Karamalikov’s declarations, so we explain how the deputy’s financial situation has changed and how much cash he keeps after years of imprisonment.
Thus, in 2021 Karamalikov declared substantial sums of $110,000 and 500,000 UAH in cash, but in the 2024 report that money is not there. Instead the deputy indicated a modest 20,000 UAH in an account at “Oschadbank”.
The largest asset is an amount of over 9.7 million UAH. This money sits in the account of the organization “Religious community “Gathering of Friends for Service to Society” of the city of Kherson”, which is headed by Illia Karamalikov.
Also, as of 2024, the family still owns a house with an area of 299.8 m2, two apartments in Kherson, seven shops and four land plots. Also, the deputy’s wife still owns a 2015 Chevrolet Volt.
In addition, the family retained ownership of p’ять enterprises – LLC “Artem-0.3”, LLC “Karo Lux”, private enterprise “Techno Invest Lux”, private enterprise “Yunist-17” and private enterprise “Prolservis-17”, as well as a stake in the charity fund “Illia Karamalikov “New Ukraine – a happy family”.
Note that in the 2024 declaration Karamalikov also stated that in 2019 his wife received $100,000 in repayable financial assistance from businessman Gennadii Girin. Interestingly, the 2020 declaration contains no information about receiving this assistance.
And at the end of 2021 Illia Karamalikov himself took 1.3 million UAH from Kherson City Council deputy Oksana Pastukh under a mortgage.
Recall that in April 2022 the SBU detained Illia Karamalikov at one of the checkpoints on the exit from Kherson region, when he, together with his family, was trying to get to Odesa.
The Security Service of Ukraine confirmed only on April 21 the information about the detention of the Kherson deputy. He was suspected of collecting and passing information to the Russians.
In May 2025 it became known that the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office reduced the charges against Karamalikov. Of the four counts he had been accused of, three were dropped.
On January 23 this year Illia Karamalikov was released from the Kryvyi Rih SIZO after paying bail.