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DMCA scandal: NABU case figure Yuriy Holyk 'cleans' Google of mentions of his schemes
While NABU, SAP and journalists have spent years investigating possible abuses around the presidential "Great Construction" program, a subject of numerous probes, Yuriy Holyk, is trying to solve the problem another way — by removing publications from Google search results. The complaint was filed on behalf of a person named Isla Longay, but it does not state which copyrighted work was allegedly infringed, where the original was published, or which passages were supposedly copied. Instead of legally refuting the facts, a copyright mechanism is being used that allows materials to be temporarily hidden from search without reviewing their content.
This was reported by Ukrudprom.
Removed were publications about NABU's criminal proceeding into possible abuses during the implementation of the "Great Construction" program, searches of former head of Dnipropetrovsk ODA Valentyn Reznichenko, Holyk himself, the company Budinvest Engineering, as well as materials about First Deputy Head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA Volodymyr Orlov, who is named as Holyk's closest ally. Those investigations described a scheme for distributing road contracts, possible inflation of work costs, contractors' ties to regional leadership, and Holyk's role as an informal coordinator of the Presidential Office's project.
According to the investigations, Budinvest Engineering received more than 1,5 billion UAH of budget funds for road maintenance and repairs in Dnipropetrovsk region after the full-scale war began. One of the company's co-owners was Yana Khlanta, whom journalists linked to Valentyn Reznichenko. The other co-owner was Pavlo Chukhno — a manager and partner of brothers Volodymyr and Leonid Dubynskyi, who are wanted by the FBI. The investigations report that Holyk, Reznichenko, Khlanta and Chukhno repeatedly traveled abroad together, and that Reznichenko's company Sevent Consulting Group and Holyk's affiliated structures had cross business ties.
A separate set of publications was devoted to Budinvest Engineering, which was also linked to Holyk's circle. According to journalists, the enterprise received road contracts totaling nearly 8 billion UAH over several years, and after the start of the full-scale war — another approximately 1,5 billion UAH for operational road maintenance. Despite the investigations, the company continued to receive budget payments even after NABU searches were conducted.
The materials also mention Kyrylo Tymoshenko, who headed the coordinating council of the "Great Construction" program, Volodymyr Orlov, Serhii Lysak, and businessman Heorhii Birkadze, through whom, according to investigators, Yuriy Holyk received information about the progress of NABU's investigation. The very investigation into a possible leak of information led to a high-profile internal conflict in the anti-corruption system, after which NABU Director Semen Kryvonos suspended his First Deputy Hizo Uglava, and NABU and SAP launched a joint review of the circumstances surrounding the leak of criminal case materials.
The subsequent developments are no less telling. In July 2026, reports appeared that Yuriy Holyk left Ukraine via the "Shlyakh" system using disability documents. According to media reports, the permit was processed through Dnipropetrovsk OVA at the request of a charitable foundation, while Holyk himself claimed he left completely legally and intended to return. Almost simultaneously, attempts began to remove from Google the publications specifically about the NABU searches, multi-billion road contracts, his ties to Valentyn Reznichenko, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Volodymyr Orlov and the Dnipropetrovsk OVA circle.
In fact, this is not a challenge to specific investigative facts, but an attempt to make information about possible corruption, multi-billion budget flows, contractors of the "Great Construction," NABU and SAP investigations, criminal case figures and the ties of people who for many years remained key participants in one of Ukraine's most expensive state infrastructure projects less accessible.
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