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🏛️🏛️🏛️ Judge Bohatska recused herself because of an apartment of 235 sq. m. in the Odesa Kandinsky.
Judge of the South-Western Commercial Court of Appeal Natalia Bohatska declared a recusal in the case seeking recovery of 30,42 million UAH from companies involved in building the complex on French Boulevard, 63/65 in Odesa. The reason — she herself holds property rights to an apartment in that complex. 18 September 2026 the court granted the recusal.
This concerns KANDINSKY Odesa Residence. The defendants in the case are the legal entities listed in the construction documents as developers: LLC “ODESAINVESTBUD”, LLC “FAME GROUP”, the subsidiary “TRANS OCEAN TOUR” and the foreign-invested enterprise LLC “AVERS”.
“AVERS” belongs to business partner of Russian citizen Trukhanov, Konstantin Tkach, and Hennadiy Besedovsky — by 50%. “AVERS”, in turn, owns 100% of LLC “FAME GROUP” and the subsidiary “TRANS OCEAN TOUR”. Tkach and Besedovsky are listed as the ultimate beneficiaries of all three companies.
The suit was filed by the deputy head of the Prymorsky District Prosecutor’s Office of Odesa on behalf of the city council. The prosecutor’s office is seeking to recover from the companies payments for the development of city infrastructure: 16,61 million UAH of principal debt, 2,34 million UAH in annual charges, and 11,47 million UAH in inflation accruals. In June the Commercial Court of Odesa Region granted the claim, recovering the corresponding amounts from each of the four defendants. The companies appealed the decision.
Before hearing the appeals, Bohatska reported that she holds property rights to an apartment in the same complex. The judge concluded that this circumstance could cause the parties to doubt the court’s impartiality and create a potential conflict of interest.
In Bohatska’s declaration for 2025 year she listed an apartment of 235,52 m². It is recorded as an object of unfinished construction. In the declaration for 2020 year the judge indicated 12,98 million UAH of expenses for acquiring property rights to the apartment.
The current price of such a property may be comparable to the entire amount of the claim. For example, a penthouse of 234,5 m² in Kandinsky is listed for sale for 26,5 million UAH. By listing prices in the complex, a benchmark for an area of 235,52 m² is approximately 25–33 million UAH. So the upper bound of this estimate exceeds the total amount of the claim of 30,42 million UAH.
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