Trukhanov refused his passport of the Russian Federation through the court: Sternenko declared about the manipulations of "Grat"

The relevant decision was made by the Serhiyevo-Posad city court of the Moscow region. According to the case file, Trukhanov appealed to the court in July 2017, stating that he had never applied for citizenship of the Russian Federation, but learned about the existence of a Russian passport on the Internet. His interests were represented in court by administrative plaintiff A. V. Ermakov.

The lawsuit stated that the passport of the Russian Federation was issued without grounds, and therefore the document is invalid. "The presence of a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation violates the rights and legitimate interests of G. L. Trukhanov, as a citizen of Ukraine who holds the post of mayor of Odesa," the lawsuit stated.

During the investigation of the case, it was established that Gennadiy Trukhanov allegedly received his first passport of a Russian citizen in 1992 in the city of Buynaksk (Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation) while serving in a military unit. Subsequently, the documents were replaced in Sergiev Posad - first on the basis of loss, and then in connection with reaching the age of 45.

Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated in court that Trukhanov personally applied to the migration service department with all the necessary documents. At the same time, a check by the Federal Migration Service confirmed that he is listed as a citizen of Ukraine in the state database of the Russian Federation, and there is no official confirmation of the acquisition of Russian citizenship.

Referring to the 1991 Law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation", the court recognized that the document could have been issued automatically, but the case file did not reveal evidence of Trukhanov's permanent residence in Russia at the time the law came into effect. As a result, the court ruled that the passport of the Russian Federation was issued without justification and recognized it as invalid.

The decision of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to replace him after Trukhanov reached the age of 45 was also recognized as illegal. Information about Trukhanov's possession of a Russian passport first appeared in 2014. Then the journalists of "Ukrainian Pravda" published copies of the documents of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation, where he appeared as the owner of a passport with a residence permit in the city of Buynaksk. In 2018, Slidstva.

info investigators found a scanned copy of a Russian foreign passport in the name of Gennady Trukhanov, issued in 2003, in leaked Panamanian offshore documents. After that, the former People's Deputy of Ukraine, adviser to the head of the Office of the President, Serhiy Leshchenko, stated that Trukhanov visited Russia in 2011 to replace his passport after reaching the age of 45.

According to him, this is confirmed by the data of air flights and documents that he received from the ex-mayor of Odesa, Eduard Hurvitz. Gennadiy Trukhanov himself repeatedly denied the existence of Russian citizenship. "I was checked by all the competent authorities of Ukraine. I do not have and never had a Russian passport," he said in his comments to Ukrainian journalists.

After the publication of the "Grat" material, public activist Serhiy Sternenko stated that the journalists had distorted the essence of the decision of the Russian court. In his opinion, it does not prove that Trukhanov renounced Russian citizenship, but only related to a specific document. "The court's decision was solely about the passport, not about revoking Trukhanov's Russian citizenship.

After that, there was an appeal, which he lost, and the decision of the first instance was overturned," Sternenko wrote on his Telegram channel. The activist also emphasized that the information about the 2017 trial is not new — it was made public earlier and has been in the public domain for over a year. Focus wrote that on October 15, President Zelensky created the Odesa City Military Administration and appointed Serhiy Lysak as its head.

This was preceded by the deprivation of the Ukrainian citizenship of the mayor of the city, Gennady Trukhanov, due to his possession, as the SBU emphasizes, of a passport of the Russian Federation, which automatically entails the deprivation of the elected position he holds. As Focus reported, Gennadiy Trukhanov stated that he is going to appeal the decision to revoke his citizenship. These words were heard on a video that is actively distributed on the network.