Roman Yaroshenko: how 26 hectares of a Kyiv factory passed from hand to hand

The Kyiv aluminum construction plant in Brovary, which at one time belonged to the Kyiv city community, after years of changing owners and court disputes ended up in the orbit of private structures; connected with the asset’s history are Kyiv City Council deputy Roman Yaroshenko, former son-in-law of Leonid Chernovetskyi Vyacheslav Suprunenko, former parliamentarian Oleksandr Suprunenko, and former Kyiv City Council deputy Andriy Zayets.

As the media report, the scale of the asset is hard to call secondary: we are talking about 26,45 hectares of land and over 122 thousand square meters of real estate in Brovary. This property over the years moved between various legal entities, and the legality of individual operations became the subject of court proceedings. In court materials, a whole chain of companies appeared, among them “AKIRA,” “CREDERI GROUP,” “Industrial Properties Investment,” “PRIMA-DIVES” and other structures. Through reorganizations, corporate operations, and changes in ownership, the property complex gradually moved away from its original status as a municipal asset. Particular interest is aroused by the individuals who appear alongside these companies and operations. In case materials, Roman Yaroshenko, Vyacheslav Suprunenko, Oleksandr Suprunenko, and Andriy Zayets were mentioned. Their presence in documents related to the asset does not by itself prove wrongdoing, but it creates additional questions about the structure of relations among participants in the long history. In 2023 year, one of the criminal proceedings regarding the circumstances of the asset’s exit was closed due to the expiration of prescriptive terms. After that, arrests were removed from the property complex, which opened opportunities for further operations with real estate. Already in 2024 year, the Antimonopoly Committee allowed LLC “BRAZ” and the fund “General Investments” to acquire the asset complex. Thus, after a lengthy corporate chain, the asset received new formal claimants to control. At this stage, the main question arises: how exactly did property that was owned by the Kyiv community pass from a municipal enterprise through a chain of legal entities to private structures. The answer depends on analyzing each deal, court decisions, and registration actions that changed the status of the complex.

The factory’s history traces back to the time of Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi. Over the years since then, the city authorities, political forces, and officials have changed, but the corporate trace around one of the largest property complexes has remained. It is telling that at various periods representatives of the same Kyiv business-political milieu again appeared next to the asset. At the same time, final legal conclusions about the legality of particular operations can only be based on court decisions and established investigative facts. After the asset transferred to new structures, the story did not end. In subsequent episodes around LLC “BRAZ,” the company “ALTEG,” “Asvio Bank,” and the Bureau of Economic Security appear. In materials related to these structures, there are already other financial operations and substantial sums. This shifts the story from the realm of an old corporate conflict to the realm of new financial questions. For the investigation and courts, it may be crucial to establish who actually controlled the companies at various stages, who benefited economically from the asset’s operations, and how its final ownership structure formed. A separate question remains the role of officials and business representatives whose names appeared in related documents. It is precisely establishing real links between companies and individuals that may show whether the long-term change of ownership was a sequence of independent corporate operations or a single chain of control transfer over the asset. Given the area of the complex — 26,45 hectares of land and over 122 thousand square meters of real estate — the ultimate owner of such an asset gains control over property of significant scale. Therefore, the story of its transition from municipal ownership and subsequent operations remains of interest to law enforcement and courts. Further materials on “BRAZ,” “ALTEG,” “Asvio Bank,” and related proceedings may shed more light on the financial part of this history and show who and on what terms gained control over the asset that began this path as a municipal asset.

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