“Virtual” real estate on “real” land: the capital prosecutor's office tries to stop a “toilet scheme” in the Dnipro district

The capital prosecutor's office is trying in court to prevent the allocation of a plot of land of 5,4 ha on Marka Cheremshyna Street. According to law enforcement, the land was eyed by the Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi”. Allegedly, as early as the beginning of 2022 year a building of only 20 sq.m. appeared on this plot (in fact it has already been established that it “does not exist in reality”), which was registered by a notary, and later, thanks to the real estate, the State Geocadastre authorities registered the corresponding plot in the State Land Cadastre. At the same time, the prosecutor's office established that the relevant registration actions were carried out without proper legal grounds – so that later one could apply to the Kyiv City Council for the land without holding a land auction. In other words, this is likely another traditional “toilet scheme” for the capital. So far law enforcement won the first round of the legal dispute, but the cooperative still has the right to appeal. Interestingly, the owner of the mentioned “virtual” property may belong to the circle of the well-known former politician and businessman Dmytro Kreynin (in the collage).

As KV has learned, the fate of the plot on Marka Cheremshyna Street, 12-G in the Dnipro district, is currently being decided in court in the capital.

Back on 21 July 2026 year, the Commercial Court of Kyiv fully satisfied the claim of the Dnipro District Prosecutor's Office in case No. 910/2848/26 seeking cancellation of the ownership right to the building located on the said land registered to the servicing cooperative (SC) Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi” and cancellation of the state registration of the plot in the State Land Cadastre. However, the cooperative still has the right to appeal that decision of the capital commercial court.

What this is about

On 14 January 2022 year, private notary of the Kyiv City Notarial District Karolina Mezhen­ska registered the ownership right of an unnamed individual in the court materials in the case to a non-residential building of 20 sq.m. located on the said plot. That registration was made on the basis of a certificate of technical characteristics of the object and address confirmation (issued by Nik Expert LLC on 4 January 2022), a technical passport dated 12 January 2022, etc.

Later, on 3 February of the same year, the aforementioned citizen contributed the said building to the authorized capital of Budstill Group LLC – accordingly, that company became its owner. And less than a week later, on 8 February, Budstill Group and the SC Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi” concluded a purchase–sale agreement for the indicated real estate, and on the same day private notary of the Kyiv City Notarial District Vadym Rohach registered the cooperative's ownership right to this property.

Six months later, on 30 September 2022, the Department for the Provision of Administrative Services of the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Zhytomyr region decided to register in the State Land Cadastre a land plot of 5,4023 ha on Marka Cheremshyna Street, 12-G under the mentioned building, assigning it the cadastral number 8000000000:66:441:0012. This registration was carried out on the basis of land management technical documentation for land inventory dated 21 February 2022 year, which was prepared by sole proprietor Vitalii Kholiavko. In the explanatory note to that documentation the entrepreneur directly stated that the land is actually used by the aforementioned cooperative.

The plot on the Opendatabot portal map

And in March 2026 year the Dnipro District Prosecutor's Office filed the above-mentioned claim with the capital commercial court. In it, law enforcement indicated that the said registration actions were “carried out with the purpose of creating an apparent legality of acquiring ownership of the real estate object located on the plot with cadastral number 8000000000:66:441:0012, with the aim of subsequently seizing the land plot by creating noncompetitive grounds for the Kyiv City Council to decide to grant it for use.” In other words, it was about another probable “toilet scheme” – when the city council transfers land under small or nonexistent buildings without holding land auctions. The prosecutor's office emphasized that the Kyiv City Council did not make any decisions to transfer this plot for use to anyone – neither when the building was registered to the private individual, nor when Budstill Group LLC owned it, nor when it ended up owned by the SC Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi”.

At the same time, any information, namely: a document that, according to the requirements of the law, certifies the acceptance into operation of a completed construction object and a document that confirms the assignment of an address to the real estate object, are absent from the materials of the above registration file.

Law enforcement also informed the court that the Department of State Architectural and Construction Control of the Kyiv City State Administration (Kyiv City State Administration) did not issue or register documents granting the right to carry out preparatory and construction works on the said plot and did not issue documents certifying the readiness of the building on this land for operation. In addition, the registration documents (presumably those on the basis of which the building's ownership was registered – KV) contain no information about the person who carried out the construction. The prosecutor's office also emphasized that the technical passport, on the basis of which the ownership right to the building was registered in the name of the “unknown individual,” cannot serve as a basis for state registration and is not a document assigning an address to a real estate object. Allegedly, it is only a document used to formalize the technical inventory of an object and which indicates the actual condition of the property (area, number of floors, etc.).

Thus, law enforcement believes that the documents on the basis of which the state registration of ownership rights for this citizen to the disputed real estate object was carried out cannot be grounds for state registration and cannot attest to the lawful acquisition of the property by the person. Therefore, as the prosecutor's office noted, in the absence of legal grounds for state registration of the ownership right to the real estate object in the name of the said citizen, the registration itself does not indicate the emergence of owner rights to the indicated real estate.

Furthermore, the Dnipro District Prosecutor's Office reported that the registration actions around the building and plot on Marka Cheremshyna Street, 12-G drew the interest of the Kyiv National Police – within criminal proceeding No. 42022102040000093 dated 30 September 2022 year. During that investigation law enforcement inspected the said land, during which it was established that there is no non-residential building on it that would correspond to the technical characteristics indicated in the technical passport dated 12 January 2022 year. Allegedly, there are metal garages on the real estate, which, however, are not capital structures.

In the end, these arguments were enough for law enforcement – at least for now.

The figures involved – who are they?

According to the analytical system YouControl, the SC Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi” was registered in June 2021 year. Its founders are listed as Kyiv residents Svitlana Oziranska, Olena Sutko and Oleksandr Denysiuk, who is also the head of the cooperative. The latter is also a co-owner of Budstill Group LLC (the “intermediate” owner of the building on Marka Cheremshyna Street, 12-G), and another ultimate beneficiary of that company is Svitlana Khudabaieva.

In turn, Budstill Group LLC may be connected to the circle of Dmytro Kreynin – a former deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council from the UDAR of Vitali Klitschko party (2010-2015 years) and a candidate for deputy of the same local government body in 2015 year from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In 2020 year the media reported that he worked as “deputy minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.” In addition, media previously named Kreynin the owner of the Lisovyi market. It is also known that Kreynin is a former son-in-law of former Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn (who held that post in 2002-2006 and 2008-2012 years).

Notably, in the summer of 2025 year several media outlets reported that Dmytro Kreynin was detained in a case concerning an alleged attempt to seize a plot of about 1 ha on Moldavska Street in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, which is assigned to the National Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko. According to media, he and two other persons were charged with fraud and document forgery. Law enforcement, in turn, reported that the suspects produced forged certificates and technical passports for an allegedly located building on the plot that in fact did not exist, registered ownership of that structure to a newly created company, involved a controlled land surveyor who was to assist with registering the land in the State Land Cadastre, and the final goal of the suspects was to arrange a free lease agreement for this land. In other words, that scheme was similar to the one described above.

Interestingly, one of the suspects in that case was likely the aforementioned Vitalii Kholiavko – this is suggested by the fact that he is currently an accused in a criminal proceeding in which the Dovzhenko Film Studio is the injured party. At the same time, another accused there is Oleh Naroha, who, according to some media, once represented the public organization (NGO) Kyiv City Union of Motorists. The chief accountant of that NGO is the current co-owner of Budstill Group LLC Svitlana Khudabaieva, and the head of that union is Dmytro Kreynin. Meanwhile, co-founder of Budstill Group LLC Ihor Mozhar is co-owner and co-founder of several companies that YouControl attributes to Dmytro Kreynin's corporate group – in particular Soprano-Double-Base LLC and Vesnianyi Prolisk LLC. Some sources even name Mozhar as Kreynin's business partner and report that illegal garbage dumps are located on lands of the aforementioned Soprano-Double-Base.

Some media also reported possible links between Dmytro Kreynin and Oleksandr Denysiuk, who is a co-founder of the aforementioned SC Cooperative of Motorists “Dniprovskyi”. Denysiuk is also a founder of the NGO Kyiv Automobile Union, which featured in a criminal proceeding regarding mass seizures of plots for garages and parking lots in Kyiv. And as 368.media noted, Kreynin may have headed the criminal group that implemented such schemes.

As KV has repeatedly reported, journalists, civic activists and some Kyiv City Council deputies constantly accuse the city leadership of allocating valuable pieces of city land to “the right clients” through the so-called “toilet scheme.” This refers to situations when large plots are leased for servicing some small “sheds” or garages that appeared on that land under dubious circumstances, as well as land allocations under non-capital or completely non-existent buildings and structures. This is done so that potential lessees can obtain plots from the Kyiv City Council without land auctions at a lower price. After all, if there are no buildings or structures on such land that belong to the applicant company, the latter must “compete” with other business entities for the plot by offering more money, which should be paid into Kyiv's budget.