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Attempts by Ukrainian officials to hide luxury assets behind relatives' names continue to fail in courts. The high-profile case involving the capital city real estate of a former government official has finally reached a financial conclusion.
How the case ended and how much the ex-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 equal 53,15% of the value of a luxury apartment in Kyiv that the official registered in his mother-in-law's name, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office officially reported.
The case concerns a luxurious residence of over 170 square meters in one of the capital's most expensive residential complexes. The relative of the ex-official purchased the property back in 2021, paying 8,1 million hryvnias. Only since 2023 did Vitaliy Koval begin to officially list this apartment in his declaration, noting it as the family's place of residence and as a property supposedly rented by his wife.
What evidence the prosecution found and what is known about the background of events
During the investigation, detectives established that the minister's family used the square footage long before it was reflected in the documents. Financial analysis showed that the official's mother-in-law did not have sufficient lawful income to make such a large purchase. The woman tried to justify the expenses by claiming a loan of almost 5,5 million hryvnias, but the investigation fully refuted that version with the gathered evidence.
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 reclaiming funds rather than the square meters themselves, the HACC was forced to lift the seizure on the apartment that 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 when property was partially bought with legal funds.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Елітна квартира тещі: суд стягнув з ексміністра Коваля понад 4 мільйони гривень". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
