$230,000 cash. A wife dressed in the most expensive brands in the world. My son studies in London. You might think that this is the beautiful life of some businessman. But no. An ordinary policeman from Rivne, Bogdan Podsokha, can afford all these benefits.
Bogdan Podsokha is from Kharkov. Until 2017 he worked in the local Economic Protection Department of the National Police. Subsequently he moved to Sumy. And now he is the head of the Department of Strategic Investigations in the Rivne region.
Over the past 9 years, the evolution of the state of the police officer is simply amazing. If in the declaration for 2015, Bogdan Podsokha declared $5,500 in cash and 530,000 hryvnia in his wife’s cash. And in the financial statements for 2022, Podsokha showed as much as $130,000 of his cash and $100,000 of his wife. Any businessman can envy such enrichment, let alone a civil servant.
Even when Podsokha moved to work in Sumy in 2018, local journalists wondered how an ordinary policeman could have such a rich declaration. Then he said that the main breadwinner in their family is his wife, who has a business: “I have nothing to hide. My entire fortune and that of my family is declared in my declaration. This money is 3.5 million UAH. – were received by my wife last year from the sale of an unfinished house and land. She shared this money with me according to the property division agreement. My wife is not a poor person; she owns a media business in the Kharkov region and not only in the Kharkov region. She earns about a million hryvnia annually. And this is also reflected in my declaration.”
According to register data and information from social networks, Anna Podsokha (or Zolochevskaya, as she identifies herself on Facebook) is the owner of a publication about children's fashion, has an online store selling children's clothing, and also heads the public organization "Slobozhansky Constellation". It is unlikely that the production of glossy goods in the Kharkov region can be considered a mega-successful business that brings in millions. As, in fact, the sale of clothing from unknown brands.
However, Dior, Balenciaga, Manolo Blanik are what Anna Podsokha prefers in her wardrobe. The woman looks quite impressive and does not hide from her subscribers either her body or her desire to be frank. Some photos are more suitable for the Onlyfans service than for the public page of a policeman's wife.
It should be noted that 10 years ago the woman looked completely different. In the video from the Slobozhansky Constellation children's festival, it is extremely difficult to recognize the current Anna Podsokha. Obviously, with the growth of the family's fortune, the appearance of the policewoman began to change exponentially.
In an interview for a Sumy publication in 2018, Bogdan Podsokha said that his wife allegedly earned 3.5 million hryvnia from the sale of an unfinished house. This is actually a lie. After all, the 200-square-meter garden house did not disappear from Podsokha’s declaration even in 2022, which means no one was selling it. The same applies to land plots: all of them remain the property of the family even now.
Now Bogdan Podsokha’s wife has changed her last name on social networks to Zolochevsk, while in his declarations he continues to indicate her as Anna Podsokha.
The answer may lie in the fact that the couple were supposed to separate in 2016. The court registry contains several documents indicating that Podsokha filed for divorce and division of property. However, from further court documents it is not clear whether the couple actually divorced and why the woman is now running her social networks under a different name, and even with such explicit photographs. Perhaps the smart Bogdan Podsokha decided to remain married so that he could easily transfer the property to his formal wife.
In any case, 2023 turned out to be a very successful year for Anna Podsokha, because the woman became the happy owner of an apartment in Rivne. It is in this city that police officer Bogdan Podsokha now works. The apartment is located in the residential complex “On Happy” and has 88 square meters of area.
From advertisements for the sale of real estate in this residential complex, you can find out that an apartment half the size costs about 2.5 million hryvnia. So it is obvious that the wife of a Rivne policeman paid out much more for her apartment.
Although Bohdan Podsokha now works in Rivne, he maintains good relations with his former colleagues from Sumy. For example, in 2020, he sold a Mercedes car to Andrey Komorny, who worked with him in the Department of Strategic Investigations of the Sumy region.
And in 2022, the Infiniti car, registered to Anna Podsokha, was sold to Irina Komorna, who, judging by the declaration of the Sumy police officer, may be his mother, because they have an apartment in common ownership.
Interestingly, in November 2021, Bohdan Podsokha attended the presentation of the new Sumy police chief Sergei Chyzh. Before this, Chizh worked in Kharkov, Podsokha’s hometown. The media wrote that Alexey Klitsenko, nicknamed “Gymnast,” was also seen at this event. He is allegedly the right hand of the villain in law Sergei Lysenko, known in the criminal world as “Lera Sumsky”. Journalists wrote that Bogdan Podsokha was one of those who ensured the safety of “Gymnast” during his visit to Sumy.
So, maybe the policeman’s connections with the criminal world are the answer to the question of why his fortune is growing by leaps and bounds? And the wife’s mega-successful media business is just a beautiful fairy tale to divert attention?
Anna and Bogdan Podsokh have a common son, Arthur. He is currently studying in London and studying politics and sociology. In one of the podcasts, a young man talks about how he dreamed of studying in this city all his life. He also adds that he rents a separate apartment, and does not live in a dormitory, as students usually do. From Artur Podsokha’s social networks it is clear that he leads an active lifestyle, including attending rallies in support of Ukraine. Apparently, the 21-year-old son of a Ukrainian policeman does not have a job in London, which means his parents are apparently renting the apartment for him.
Bohdan Podsokha now works as the head of the Department of Strategic Investigations in the Rivne region. This department also deals with cases related to the amber mafia. According to certain data, Podsokha is actively involved in work on ambers, although not in terms of fighting them, but rather from a financial point of view. Simply put, for turning a blind eye to semi-criminal topics, Podsokha receives his percentage from the illegal business. Hence, tons of cash, and probably the opportunity to buy an apartment, which was registered in July 2023 in the name of his wife Anna Podsokha.
The case of Bogdan Podsokha, telling about the success of his wife’s business, is almost an anecdotal story. In this, he is not inferior to the former head of the Odessa military registration and enlistment office, Evgeniy Borisov, who assured that his successful businesswoman wife purchased the villa in Spain. All these examples, unfortunately, prove that corruption in Ukraine thrives even during war. And for law enforcement officers to stop talking about how they get rich solely due to the successes of their relatives, a lot of time is still needed.
