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Denys Komarnytsky has been wanted by NABU since 10 February 2025 as a suspected organizer of a criminal organization in case No. ¹52023000000000154 from 3 April 2023, operation “Clean City.”
According to the investigation, since 2019 the group obtained Kyiv land without auctions through “ghost houses,” public toilets and other fictitious real estate: they managed to appropriate plots worth over 11 million UAH, and the transfer of six more worth 81–83 million was stopped. In 6 February — more than 90 searches, seven detained, ten indictments. Komarnytsky was not taken into custody.
According to Ukrainska Pravda and the BBC, he was escorted to the border by people with SBU IDs, two officers from the Zakarpattia UDR unit and a local deputy; the convoy included a car with a plate reading “200.” Later Ukrainska Pravda located Komarnytsky in Vienna. Subsequently he received a separate indictment regarding 12 million UAH in taxes. In January 2026 the “Clean City” investigation was closed, but without extradition from Austria there will be no trial. His palace in Kozyn of about 3100 sq. m at that time remained unseized, and personnel linked to him were still in the Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv City Council.
This is not Komarnytsky’s first criminal episode. In the case of 2005–2011 years, together with Chernovetsky’s son-in-law Denys Suprunenko, he was implicated in an attack on lawyer Hrantsev, a suitcase with $20 thousand and a Zolochiv court decision to seize JSC “Knyzhka” — the investigation spoke of an attempt to lift the seizure and re-register the factory. In 2011 the Pechersky court ordered two months’ detention, but a month later the GPU released him on a written undertaking; in 2012 the Shevchenkivskyi court sentenced him to two years’ probation. In 2017 Bihus linked him to lifting seizures and selling Klimenko’s properties in Koncha-Zaspa. In 2019 he was already called the person who pushed Vadym Stolar out of Kyiv revenue streams. The former leader of Chernovetsky’s faction 2008–2010 years, a lawyer and the city’s “watcher.” Chernovetsky himself is also abroad and wanted.
But the main question of “Clean City” is Artur Palatnyi. On recordings he appears as “neighbor,” “G” and “senior partner,” while Komarnytsky, according to Bihus, went two floors down to report. Palatnyi was searched within the “Clean City” probe, but no charges were brought against him. Meanwhile, in 2021 he was already searched in a case about alleged protection of illegal trade in metro underpasses: the prosecutor’s office claimed that kiosk dismantling was blocked in exchange for regular payments. At his home they found $250 thousand in cash and draft calculations of “who owes whom.” The case did not reach court.
In January 2025 the club “Tutsi” surfaced, shares of which are registered to Palatnyi’s parents Lidiya and Leonid — in proceedings about nightclubs and human trafficking. In December 2024 — lawyer Sukhanov, Odesa “UDAR,” a hotel and a possible $1 million UAH for resolving a land issue near Natalka Park. Palatnyi is a former MP of the VII–VIII convocations, Klitschko’s kum (godfather), his childhood friend and head of UDAR’s executive committee. Despite the search and $250 thousand, he has no suspect status in the “Clean City” land case.
Meanwhile, indictments were issued to people directly within the city vertical: Klitschko’s deputy Petro Olenych, who was responsible for land and urban planning, Kyiv City Council land commission chair Mykhailo Terentiev from UDAR, Marchenko, representatives of Kyivblagoustriy and the Special Housing Fund Mushta and Leonov. On wiretaps Shariy and Shpachuk promise to be “fully controllable.” Sobol and Bohuslavska are wanted along with Komarnytsky; three of the nine defendants are physically unavailable to the High Anti-Corruption Court.
Klitschko already admitted to Ukrainska Pravda in 2021 meeting with Komarnytsky, although he claimed they did not discuss real estate. Later Mykhailo Tkach photographed Klitschko together with Palatnyi at the christening of Vagif Aliyev’s son. Back in 2019 Andriy Bohdan claimed about $20 million supposedly “in Klitschko’s interests”; after that the mayor himself went to NABU. Klitschko spoke of roughly 1,5 thousand criminal proceedings against the city authorities and called them commissioned.
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