Journalists at Ukrayinska Pravda, a Ukrainian online news outlet, report they can prove the mayor of Ukraine’s major seaport and resort city of Odesa, Gennady Trukhanov, is, in fact, a holder of a Russian passport.
The database of Russia’s Federal Tax Service shows that Odesa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov, besides being a Ukrainian citizen, has also obtained a Russian passport, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.
The journalists used a freely accessible database to check personal and passport details of the mayor and saw Trukhanov’s taxpayer identification number issued in Russia.
Apparently, the ID was issued in 2011.
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Trukhanov denied possession of the Russian passport, claiming that the leaked passport copy was a forgery by former mayor Eduard Hurwitz.
The Odesa department of the SBU Security Service have also checked the report but said they found no evidence of Trukhanov’s Russian citizenship.