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Detectives from NABU found correspondence about an apartment in Bulgaria on the phone of the civilian partner of the former director of the National Guard’s logistics department, Serhiy Hrytsenko.
The editorial staff of 368.media learned about this from the relevant criminal proceeding.
At the same time, NACP recorded false information in his declarations totaling 28 million hryvnias, and the official himself is named in the bureau’s criminal proceedings concerning National Guard procurements.
Svitlana Volodymyrivna Koliada — Hrytsenko’s civilian partner and the mother of their joint daughter Zlata Serhiivna, born in 2021.
From the protocol of the inspection of her mobile phone dated 10 May 2025 it is visible that deleted messages in the WhatsApp messenger included correspondence from 12 March 2025. On 19 March 2025 the same subscriber sent Koliada a file — a real estate purchase-sale agreement dated 23 September 2022.
The contract was concluded between the Bulgarian company VOUP Group EOOD and a person identified in the materials as PERSON_21. The subject of the agreement is an apartment with an area of 80,97 sq. m in a residential complex on a land plot with identifier 51500.506.293 in the Sunny Beach-West area, municipality of Nessebar, Bulgaria. The contract price is 66,2 thousand euros.
VOUP Group EOOD is a Bulgarian company that appears in the contract dated 23 September 2022 as the seller of the apartment. EOOD is the Bulgarian form of a single-member limited liability company: one person owns the capital and manages the firm.
In open Bulgarian registers the exact name “VOUP Group EOOD” does not appear as a major developer. The closest in spelling and line of business is VOUG Group EOOD (UIC 206994068). It was registered on 27 June 2022 in Stara Zagora; the director is Veselin Ivanov Tochev. Its stated activities include construction, real estate purchase and sale, management, and leasing. The apartment contract is dated 23 September 2022 — three months after this company’s registration. Whether it is the same company cannot be unequivocally confirmed from open sources: in court materials the name may have been transcribed with an error. Hrytsenko’s declaration for 2025 already includes another Bulgarian apartment — 45,73 sq.m for 870 thousand hryvnias.
NABU conducted searches at Hrytsenko’s in May 2025. At that time detectives also went to the commander of the National Guard, Oleksandr Pivnenko, Colonel Oleksandr Kalatynets, Deputy Commander Oleksandr Bilous, and other logistics officials. According to the investigation, the searches of Hrytsenko and Kalatynets were carried out, among other things, in proceedings under part 5 of article 191 and part 2 of article 209 of the Criminal Code — embezzlement on a particularly large scale and legalization of proceeds from crime.
The case concerns the procurement of FV432, FV434, and FV439 armored personnel carriers through BP “Exim World Defense” LLC. According to the investigation, the price difference with comparable equipment is at least 199 million hryvnias. Separately, there is a case about alleged kickbacks during National Guard tenders with damages exceeding 190 million hryvnias.
After the searches, Hrytsenko was dismissed. In the declaration for 2025 he for the first time listed Koliada as a person with whom he cohabits without marriage, and also three children — Yehor, Zlata, and Hlib. The declaration also included an apartment in Bulgaria with an area of 45,73 square meters and a value of 870 thousand hryvnias, registered in his name.
NACP completed full checks of his declarations for 2023 and 2024 and found false information totaling 28 million hryvnias. For 2023 the discrepancy exceeded 10 million, for 2024 — 15 million hryvnias, which is more than 2500 subsistence minimums.
The key violation, according to the agency’s conclusion, is that Hrytsenko did not disclose Koliada as a family member. The official and the woman explained that they had “a free relationship without mutual obligations” and allegedly began managing a joint household only from March 2025. NACP rejected these explanations: a shared child, cohabitation in Irpin, and other data, in the agency’s view, confirm that Koliada was a family member as defined by the Law “On Prevention of Corruption.”
Because of this, Koliada’s property and objects used by the family were not included in the declarations. Among them are houses in Irpin, several land plots, a non-residential premise that Koliada acquired in June 2024, which NACP believes was purchased with Hrytsenko’s funds. Also not disclosed were a Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross 2022 (year), which has belonged to Koliada since November 2022 and under the contract cost 1,21 million hryvnias, a Hyundai Accent 2011 (year), alimony for the son, and part of incomes and bank balances.
The agency sees in Hrytsenko’s actions signs of a criminal offense under part 2 of article 366-2 of the Criminal Code — declaring false information. The official’s guilt in corruption crimes related to procurements has not yet been established by a court: this concerns the pre-trial investigation stage and the conclusions of the full checks of the declarations.
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