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Attempts by Ukrainian officials to hide elite assets behind relatives' backs continue to collapse in courts. The high-profile case involving the capital real estate of one former government official has finally reached a financial conclusion.
How the case ended and how much the former official will lose
2 September the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) ruled to recover 4,35 million hryvnias from former Minister of Agrarian Policy Vitaliy Koval. These funds are equivalent to 53,15% of the value of a luxury apartment in Kyiv that the official registered in his mother-in-law’s name, officials in the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office reported.
The case concerns a lavish residence of over 170 square meters in one of the capital’s most expensive residential complexes. The relative of the ex-official purchased this property back in 2021, paying 8,1 million hryvnias for it. Only since 2023 has Vitaliy Koval officially listed this apartment in his declaration, indicating it as the family's place of residence and as an object supposedly rented by his wife.
What evidence the prosecution found and what is known about the background of the events
During the investigation, detectives established that the minister’s family used these square meters long before this was reflected in the documents. Financial analysis showed that the official’s mother-in-law did not physically have sufficient legitimate income for such a large purchase. The woman tried to justify the expenses by claiming a loan of nearly 5,5 million hryvnias, but the investigation fully refuted this version with the evidence collected.
Because only part of the property’s value was deemed unjustified, the judges decided to recover from Koval the monetary equivalent of that illegal portion. Since the state is taking funds rather than square meters, the HACC was forced to lift the seizure on the apartment itself, which had been imposed earlier in May 2025. This decision shows that the anti-corruption system is finding mechanisms to return money to the budget, even if the property was partly purchased with legal funds.
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