Owner of private cars and deputy Sergei Smelykh expanded his collection of prestigious cars during wartime

The Brave family has a large number of luxury cars, expensive real estate and a lot of money in their bank accounts.

At the height of a full-scale war, the family of a city council deputy and owner of private cars, Sergei Smely, purchased an elite car worth more than a million hryvnia. This is stated in the investigation “ Svoi Krivoy Rog ”.

The Smelykh couple in Krivoy Rog own several apartments, cars and an impressive number of bank accounts. Since 2021, an apartment of 126 square meters has been registered in Sergei Smely’s name, which he valued at 1.6 million hryvnia. He also owns a 20 m² garage.

Since 2009, the deputy’s wife Irina Smelaya has been the owner of an apartment of 65 square meters, worth 130 thousand hryvnia. However, its fleet of vehicles is more surprising. Irina owns a Mercedes EURO6, 2018, purchased in 2021 for 1.25 million hryvnia.

The couple also purchased a 2017 AUDI during a full-scale war. While the model is not specified, sources of investigative journalists report that we are talking about the Q7, which costs more than a million hryvnia.

Among other things, the Bold family is the beneficiaries of a dozen companies. For example, Sergey Smely is listed in the private enterprise Niola, LLC Zhilservis-KR, LLC Promotion Industries, LLC Zhilservis-M, LLC Eco-Park KR, LLC Eka-Story, LLC Top-soft, LLC Uyut-2017.

Irina Smelaya also owns a number of companies, including Shanghai Electric-Service LLC, Chinese Heavy Engineering Plant LLC, Uyut-2011 LLC, Cityservice-KR LLC.

The deputy’s income from business amounted to 3.7 million hryvnia, and his wife – 1.42 million hryvnia for the year.

“ The spouses keep their current money in Privatbank accounts. The wife has a total of a little more than 160 thousand UAH, Sergei Smely has 225 thousand UAH, 185 euros and 100 USD. another 20 thousand hryvnia in UkrSibbank. However, an interesting fact is that there are a huge number of accounts in capital banks, information about which is closed ,” the investigation says.