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“Clean City” brings Klychko’s inner circle into focus. Separate questions arise about his godfather Artur Palatnyi
Among the people whose names appear around the story of Kyiv land decisions, Artur Palatnyi stands out separately — a childhood friend, Klychko’s godfather, and one of his closest associates.
According to journalists, Palatnyi was a person on whom many city processes depended and whom people called when they needed to resolve “big issues.” At the same time, he held no official position in the Kyiv City State Administration.
Questions about his role arose earlier as well. In 2021 he was implicated in a criminal proceeding by the Kyiv prosecutor’s office. In the investigation materials he was described as a person who used corrupt connections to remove obstacles to the activities of a criminal group and regularly received money for this. Older publications directly called him an originator of an organized crime group and a patron of separatists, linked him to the circle of a Kyiv criminal authority and to businesses that operated under criminal “protection.” Back in 2012 the then-chair of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense demanded Palatnyi be excluded from the UDAR party list, citing people in the party closely connected to the criminal world.
And here the questions go directly to Klychko. How could his godfather and closest associate have such informal influence over city processes for years without an official position? If “big issues” were indeed resolved through people from the mayor’s inner circle, Klychko must explain how this system was arranged and who was responsible for it.
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