Servant of the People MPs Picked a $4,350 Cuba Hotel for New Year Holiday
Have you decided where you will be celebrating New Year yet?
On December 5, during a session of the Verkhovna Rada, Servant of the People faction MP Vladyslav Borodin was chatting with a travel agent while choosing a five-star hotel for a New Year holiday in Cuba. The relevant video was provided exclusively to TK Media by Oleksiy Lypovetskyi.
The video shows People's Deputy Vladyslav Borodin, while in the session hall, choosing hotel options for a New Year holiday in Cuba. As the correspondence shows, a contact signed as "Vika Tour" offered the MP an option at the five-star Iberostar Selection Bella Vista Varadero Hotel. The cost of the holiday offered by Viktoriya was $4,350 (including New Year dinners).
At the 37-second mark of the video, Borodin forwards the tour offers to his colleague, Servant of the People People's Deputy Serhiy Severin, who was elected in the neighboring constituency in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It remains unclear from the context of the correspondence whether forwarding the message was a friendly discussion or whether the deputies are planning a joint holiday.
Iberostar Selection Bella Vista Varadero Hotel is a five-star hotel at the popular Cuban resort of Varadero, on the narrow Ikacos peninsula.
TK Media respects the personal lives of the people's deputies and publishes this story only because the parliamentarian was choosing a holiday destination during working hours in the session hall of the country's main legislative body, while the price range of the hotels in question is several times higher than a people's deputy's salary.
Background
Vladyslav Borodin is a deputy from the presidential political force, elected in the 38th majoritarian constituency. He is a member of the committee on law enforcement issues. In his 2018 declaration he reported cash savings of 455,000 hryvnias, $50,000 and €10,000. The deputy's spouse is listed as the owner of the monetary assets. The family of the People's Deputy also has three cars: a Lexus GS 350 (2013), a MITSUBISHI Outlander (2007) and a Toyota Rav 4 (2016). The deputy's wife is listed as the owner of the vehicles. According to the website of the Central Election Commission, when registering as a candidate for People's Deputy, Borodin stated that he was temporarily unemployed.
Serhiy Severin is a People's Deputy from the presidential political force, elected in the 39th majoritarian constituency. He is a member of the budget committee. At the time of his election, he was deputy head and head of the department for economics, budget and finance of the Dnipro Regional Council. In his 2018 declaration, Severin reported cash assets of $20,100 and 150,000 hryvnias. The declaration shows that the owner of the monetary funds is the deputy's spouse.
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