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Maksym Shkil owns several plots and a huge estate in the village of Lisnyky. This is a scandalous development, and it became known about it back in 2016.
Journalists found that the daughter of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Oksana Chebotar, and a relative of the then head of the NSDC, Oleksandr Turchynov, Raisa Vyshnevska built houses on lands belonging to the forestry enterprise. In order to enable construction on these plots, the lands were quietly removed from their original status and transferred to the village council’s balance. The courts on this case have been ongoing for 10 years.
As of now Chebotar and Vyshnevska remain the owners of land in Lisnyky. Along with them, Maksym Shkil and his mother do as well. If you look on Google Maps, Shkil’s estate is the largest of them on these plots. Shkil did not register all his lands only in 2024 and 2025.
His neighbors on the plots in Lisnyky include, for example, businessman Harik Korogodsky; the wife of Kyiv Regional Council member Viacheslav Sobolev; Prosecutor of the Prosecutor General’s Office Hanna Zamkova; member of the Disciplinary and Qualification Commission Anatoliy Kovalenko; former MP and Party of Regions member Dmytro Sandler, who does business with Russians; and others.
But in the context of ties to the Ministry of Infrastructure, the owner of another plot — Liliya Horbatenko — proved interesting. She is a probable relative of the former board member and chief operating officer of Ukrzaliznytsia, former director of Odesa Rail, Viacheslav Yeryomin. A woman with the same name gifted the official’s wife 1 million hryvnias in 2016, according to the railway official’s declaration.
Liliya Horbatenko registered nearly 60 sotkas of land next to Maksym Shkil’s lands in 2021.
In an interview with Babel, Maksym Shkil denied that former Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan is his godfather. However, he reported another interesting detail — he is acquainted with Omelyan’s predecessor Andriy Pyvovarsky. According to him, he generally maintains good relations with the financial-industrial group Kontinium (WOG gas stations), from which Pyvovarsky came to public service.
The group previously belonged to businessman Ihor Yeremeyev, who unexpectedly fell from a horse and died in 2016. For a long time his inheritance was divided between the family and two business partners. According to MP Ihor Palytsia’s testimony, he helped Yeremeyev’s wife in this matter. It is likely that through Palytsia, with whom Maksym Shkil may be acquainted thanks to godfather Ihor Popadyuk, the founder of Avtostrada found a way to Kontinium. From there, with established connections it was not hard to reach Kubrakov, who launched the Great Construction, and now Oleksiy Kuleba.
At the start of the piece it was mentioned that the company Avtostrada is suspected of embezzlement on state contracts. However, the cases are progressing extremely slowly. For example, the case concerning embezzlement of budget funds during the construction of the main water pipeline Khortytsia (DVS2)–Tomakivka–Marhanets, the need for which arose after the Kakhovka HPP was destroyed by Russians. The investigation found that Avtostrada systematically inflated sand prices, causing major losses to the budget. The case has been under consideration for two years, but there are almost no results.
Also, as already mentioned, Avtostrada is a subject of a criminal case regarding the construction of the Podilsko-Voskresenskyi Bridge. The investigation is not just stalled — more than that, Shkil’s Avtostrada continues to receive billions of hryvnias on that contract.
No wonder: having so many influential acquaintances, being friendly with nearly every infrastructure minister over the past 10 years, placing your people in Ukrzaliznytsia, and living next to prosecutors, deputies, and other influential people — that is the secret of doing business Ukrainian-style. And Maksym Shkil is a vivid example of that. Godparent ties continue to open any government office, even if the entrepreneur is burdened with a considerable number of criminal cases.
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