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Mykytas Is Again Under NABU Investigation: What He Is Suspected Of and Why He Is Still Free
Former MP and president of the bankrupt developer Ukrbud, Maksym Mykytas, has once again become a subject of an NABU investigation. Various versions of his situation are being circulated in the media, since many find it strange how he manages to avoid the harshest punishments.
This was reported by OBOZ.UA.
NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office accused Mykytas of offering a huge bribe, embezzlement at the Ministry of Defense, and in the National Guard. He was also accused of attempting to bribe experts, and now of raiding. Despite all the cases, Mykytas remained free and, as a new investigation showed, retained his influence.
Mykytas’s old and new cases
Mykytas, with the help of Iryna Mudra, tried to seize Filosofiya Development. This company owned the building of the Arsenal factory in the center of Kyiv (Knyaziv Ostrozkykh St., 8). The building was dismantled, so the land plot under it of 1,4 hectares was freed. And this is a very expensive (about 500 million UAH) and attractive plot for construction. Previously this land belonged to Mykytas. He bought it in 2019 and planned to build Arsenal Plaza. But during Ukrbud’s bankruptcy Mykytas lost the asset.
Ownership of Ukrbud went to Mykytas’s former partner Dmytro Fedotenkov. At that time Mykytas essentially claimed that a raider takeover had occurred. “In the process of searching for investors I signed certain memoranda, which in the media and among people are called ‘poniatyky.’ They do not carry any legal formalization, any legal consequences,” Mykytas said.
So, to get revenge Mykytas decided to carry out a raiding attack, and Mudra helped with this. The former deputy head of the Office of the President communicated with Deputy Minister of Justice Olena Ferens for this purpose. In 2025 the beneficiary owner of Filosofiya Development changed – from Antonina Bartash to Uzbek citizen Kayumdzhon Samatov. He is likely a nominee.
“According to a previously reached agreement, in 29 December 2025 the Collegium of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine for consideration of complaints adopted a conclusion recognizing as lawful the transfer of ownership rights to the enterprise seized by raiding to a person controlled by the criminal organization,” the law enforcement material states.
At the same time, the scheme’s organizers created fictitious debts, which made it possible to initiate bankruptcy proceedings for the enterprise. For the bankruptcy they used LLC Kasa narodnoyi dopomohy, which demanded 258,7 million UAH.
Another case concerns LLC Regionalni resursy. Mudra instructed Deputy Minister of Justice Olena Ferens to register this company’s real estate to Ukrbud Development. But the Ministry of Justice did not do so.
The “apartment case”
However, this is far from Mykytas’s first case. In 2021 another proceeding involving Mykytas was sent to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC). The National Guard of Ukraine entered into contracts with Ukrbud to purchase apartments, even though the housing did not meet requirements, which the group’s participants knew for certain. Based on the contracts and acceptance-transfer acts for the apartments, in 2017 the National Guard transferred over 17,3 million UAH of budget funds to Ukrbud structures.
Bribe for an expert
Trying to resolve his problems, Mykytas got involved in another scandal. According to NABU, Mykytas and then-Ukrbud lawyer Oleh Tatarov allegedly gave the head of an expert institution a parking space as an illicit benefit to obtain a favorable expert report and effectively “bury” the case. NABU reported that Mykytas and the head of the expert institution were notified of suspicions. The episode concerning Tatarov was closed due to the expiration of procedural terms.
Bribe for the mayor
Mykytas was also detained in the case regarding an offer of a bribe to Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov. According to NABU, it involved 22 million euros for assistance in resolving an issue related to building a metro in Dnipro. This case is also in the HACC. Filatov not only refused the bribe but also appealed to law enforcement.
Warehouses for the Ministry of Defense
NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office suspect former MP Maksym Mykytas of embezzling more than 307 million UAH of Ministry of Defense funds in contracts for construction of armament warehouses.
The prosecution alleges that in 2018 the Ministry of Defense signed contracts with companies controlled by the former head of the construction company Ukrbud, Maksym Mykytas, who at that time was a member of parliament of Ukraine. The contracts concerned construction by 2021 of storage warehouses for Ukrainian Armed Forces rockets and ammunition – the amount was about 3 billion UAH.
Later, in November–December 2018 over 307 million UAH was transferred to the accounts of companies linked to Mykytas. However, construction of the warehouses never began, and the funds subsequently ended up in the accounts of other companies, the VAKS Vyrishyv project recalls.
Mykytas is good at collecting bail
The former MP has survived a series of arrests and each time was released. Recently NABU found that the ex-MP knows how to raise bail not only for himself. For example, Mykytas organized the “collection” of bail of 150 million UAH for former minister Halushchenko, using a conversion center and a number of companies connected to the ex-MP.
The ability to gather bail has saved the former developer more than once. For example, in the case of the attempted bribe to the Dnipro mayor the bail was gradually reduced from 260 million to 20 million UAH. In July 2023 he was released.
In the Ministry of Defense warehouses case Mykytas was initially placed under house arrest, but due to expiration of pretrial investigation terms the preventive measure was changed to bail of 908 400 UAH. On 30 April 2024 he was released.
In 2019 in the “apartment” case Mykytas posted bail of 80 million UAH. He was even granted permission to fly to London for treatment, but the permission was later revoked and he was removed from the flight. This case may be “buried.” As early as 19 November 2024 a judge was replaced on the panel, so the case must be reconsidered from the start.
In the new case the prosecutor asks to apply pretrial detention to Maksym Mykytas with the alternative of posting bail in the amount of 200 million UAH. But the court set it at 30 million UAH. The suspect will likely post these funds in the near future.
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