Sanctioned “Yunigran” Changed Its Director: The Company Was Headed by the Likely Son of the Founder of the “Faktor” Group

The sanctioned LLC “Unigran” (EDRPOU 24584514), which the National Security and Defense Council placed on its sanctions list back in May 2023, has still not come under real state control.

Instead, as YouControl registry data show, during the period of sanctions there was a personnel change: the position of head was vacated by Serhiy Dyniak, a deputy of the Zhytomyr Regional Council, and the company was headed by Anatoliy Petrovych Tyshchenko – apparently the son of a well-known Zhytomyr businessman, Petro Tyshchenko, founder of the Faktor group of companies.

Sanctions exist, but control over assets is in question.

By presidential decree in spring 2023, Unigran and related entities came under personal and sectoral sanctions of the NSDC for five years. Yet even after that, the fate of the company’s assets continues to be the subject of court disputes.

Thus, in May 2025, the Ministry of Justice canceled registration actions regarding the alienation of real estate of LLC “Unigran” and LLC “Unigran-Servis,” having recognized that the sale agreements for this real estate were concluded in contravention of NSDC’s decision of May 12, 2023 — i.e., during the sanctions period. Formally, this was intended to return the assets under the state sanctions umbrella. But, as the subsequent history of the enterprise shows, it is too early to talk about completed nationalization.

Staffing shuffle during the sanctions period.

According to the extract “Leadership” from YouControl, over 28 years of reporting, five managers changed at the head of “Unigran.” The latest change was recorded in 21, and in 2026, the post was vacated by Serhiy Vasylovych Dyniak, and Anatoliy Petrovych Tyshchenko was recorded as the new director.

Notably, Dyniak himself had previously headed the enterprise — since 2003, with brief interruptions (including in November 2024, when for a short time Dmitro Kovalenko was listed as formal head, and Dyniak returned in March 2025). Now, under current sanctions, the director’s chair of the sanctioned plant has gone to a representative of another well-known Zhytomyr region business family.

Who is Serhiy Dyniak.

Serhiy Vasylovych Dyniak, born in 1969, a resident of Granitne settlement in Malynskyi district, is not simply a hired manager. He has been elected twice as a deputy of Zhytomyr Oblast Council in the-majority system, has belonged to several deputy factions, and in the last local elections ran from the “Our Land” party, heading its regional organization.

In an interview with Zhytomyr.info, Dyniak presented himself as “general director of LLC “Unigran,” a successful person, a deputy of Zhytomyr Oblast Council. According to his annual declaration, the combined income of the Dynyak family for 2018 year exceeded 4,5 million UAH. That is, before the latest replacement at the helm of the sanctioned enterprise, the position was effectively held not by an external manager but by a public regional politician.

Tyshchenko instead of Dyniak: first connections.

YouControl’s contract-relationship registry data show that the new head of Unigran, Anatoliy Petrovych Tyshchenko, is not a random outsider. According to the same source, he is simultaneously listed as the head of Faktor-Impex LLC and as the beneficiary of PrJSC Korostensky Chemical Machinery Plant (“Chemmash”). And Chemmash, according to YouControl, is part of the corporate group “Tyshchenko family group” — 23 a company in four directions: fuel and energy complex, fuel trading, real estate, and “other.” A key person in the group on the registry is Motrona Tyshchenko.

The trail leads to 2009.

The name “Faktor” in connection with the Korostensky “Chemmash” and Tyshchenko surname appears in public space not for the first time. In a publication from 2009, it was stated that the Faktor business group of businessman Petro Tyshchenko established control over JSC Korostensky Plant of Chemical Engineering, and the new chairman of the plant’s board became his son — Anatoliy.

That both the then newly appointed head of Chemmash and today’s new head of Unigran bear the middle name “Petrovych” provides reason to assume they are the same person — the son of Petro Tyshchenko, who after a decade and a half now heads another sanctioned enterprise in the same region.

Serhiy Petrovych Tyshchenko and the “Pashinsky case.”

In the Tyshchenko family, another notable figure bears the same patronymic — Serhiy Petrovych Tyshchenko, who on his own internet page presents himself as the founder of the Tyshchenko group of companies, chairman of the supervisory board of JSC Korostensky Plant of Chemical Engineering and JSC Zhytomyr Treats, an entrepreneur and investor. The coincidence of patronymics with the new head of Unigran suggests that these are close relatives — probably brothers or sons of the same Petro Tyshchenko.

This very name — Serhiy Tyshchenko — regularly appears in materials about the high-profile case around oil products involving fugitive Serhiy Kurchenko. According to the investigation presented by, among others, the publication Hlavkom, the organizers of the criminal scheme to seize Kurchenko’s seized oil products (about 100 thousand tons) are considered to be ex-deputy Serhiy Pashynskyi and his “businessman-neighbor” Serhiy Tyshchenko; losses to the state in updated suspicions are estimated at 817 million UAH. In June 2026, it became known that Pashynskyi agreed with the investigation to plead guilty in this case — as of the publication, the agreement still needed approval by the High Anti-Corruption Court.

Tyshchenko himself was released in the case on personal surety, while he publicly denied his guilt through close associates, insisting that he did not profit from the oil products operation. Note: there is no final conviction against Serhiy Tyshchenko as of today, so, in line with the presumption of innocence, he remains a person under inquiry rather than a convicted person.

Instead of a conclusion.

Formally, sanctions against Unigran remain in effect, and attempts to return the enterprise to the state continue in court for years. But the personnel decision made at the plant during the sanctions period looks at least telling: instead of the public politician and longtime director Serhiy Dynyak, the helm passed to a member of the Tyshchenko family — a family whose structures already have experience of gaining control over industrial assets in Zhytomyr region, and one of whose prominent names appears in a high-profile anti-corruption case. Does this personnel swap signal a real nationalization of Unigran, or, on the contrary, an attempt to preserve control over the asset within “our own” business groups? A question to be answered by the relevant state bodies.

StopCor continues to monitor the situation around the sanctioned enterprise.

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