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Heritage in 1,3 a billion: how Oksana Haisynska became the owner of the Kernes empire
Oksana Haisynska is the widow of former Kharkiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes, the daughter of former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Haisynskyi, and a former lawyer. She has been close to Kernes for many years, and after his death her name began to appear in investigations into the family’s property and business assets, whose journalists valued at over a billion hryvnias.
This is written by Telegraph.
Before her relationship with Kernes, Haisynska was already married and had a son, Rodion. Hennadiy Kernes treated the boy as his own, though the couple had no biological children.
Their relationship lasted many years, though Kernes at different times spoke about Haisynska’s status differently. In 2019, he told journalists that their relationship was in the past, but after his death it was Oksana who confirmed the politician’s death and was by his side during treatment in Germany.
Oksana Haisynska. Photo: instagram.com/oksanag2406
Kharkiv residents knew about their relationship long before Kernes became mayor. In 2003 a loud conflict occurred: Haisynska filed a police report alleging she was beaten by Kernes, but later withdrew it. After that, billboards appeared in Kharkiv reading "Oksana, forgive me!".
Despite the scandal, the couple later resumed their relationship. Haisynska remained beside Kernes in the following years, including after the attempted assassination of him in 2014.
Oksana Haisynska and Hennadiy Kernes. Photo: instagram.com/oksanag2406
The luxurious life of Haisynska
Even during Kernes’s life, journalists drew attention to property registered under his civil wife. Investigators at Bihus.Info in 2019 year reported that at different times Haisynska owned several expensive cars — Bentley Brooklands, Rolls-Royce Ghost, BMW X6, and Audi A8. The total value of cars at purchase was estimated at about 700 thousand dollars.
Oksana Haisynska. Photo: instagram.com/oksanag2406
Among Haisynska’s real estate, there was an apartment of about 150 square meters on Shovkovychna Street in Kyiv. Journalists estimated its market value at about 25 million UAH. She also owned two apartments in Kharkiv totaling about 300 square meters.
Oksana Haisynska. Photo: instagram.com/oksanag2406
Equally telling were photos from trips. According to journalistic investigations, Kernes’s family vacationed in the Maldives, Seychelles, Italy, and London. In particular, journalists identified the Maldivian resort Anantara Kihavah, where Haisynska vacationed with her son Rodion.
What Haisynska received after Kernes’s death
The program Slidstvo.Info established that Haisynska and her son Rodion became owners of assets journalists estimated at least at 1,3 billion UAH. It involved approximately 66 thousand square meters of commercial real estate and 26 hectares of land in Kharkiv. A substantial part of the re-registrations occurred after the mayor’s death.
Among assets connected with Haisynska, journalists named land under a food court in Gorky Park, a plot under a cafe in Shevchenko Park, as well as a building in central Kharkiv where the office of the "Party of Regions" used to be located, and later the headquarters of the "Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv".
After Kernes’s death, Haisynska also became owner or beneficiary of a number of companies, including "Flors", "Stage T", "Delta Auri", "Versio", "Waise", "Solo Engineering" and "Weberz". Through these structures offices, cafes and other commercial real estate in Kharkiv were registered.
Oksana Haisynska and Hennadiy Kernes.
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