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The Chairman of the Board (executive director) of the state company Ukrvydavpoligrafiya and vice president of the Ukrainian Padel Federation, Vasyl Prodan, is suspected of illegally appropriating this company’s funds amounting to tens of millions of hryvnias.
This was reported by the international detective bureau Absolution.
While working for the state, Prodan simultaneously built the largest network of padel and other racket-sport halls in Ukraine. Of course, these are private. These assets are mostly registered to his wife, Alesia Prodan, and his assistant, Hanna Platok, as well as to some other front persons. Here are lists of Ukrainian padel companies (and others) that are part of Prodan’s pool. Notably, the trendiest in Kyiv, Racket Sports Park.
In 2026, Alesia Prodan also purchased for 430 thousand euros the largest padel center in Girona, Spain, which includes 10 indoor and outdoor courts. As confirmation — an extract from the Spanish registries about PADEL GIRONA UALA SL.
Vasyl Prodan promotes padel as a fashionable sport for the Ukrainian establishment together with his longtime acquaintance Oleksii Dniprov, now rector of the National University of Construction and Architecture.
Dniprov is president of the Ukrainian Padel Federation; Prodan is vice president. Dniprov’s wife, Suzanna Savchuk, who works in the Office of the Prosecutor General, rents from Alesia Prodan an apartment in Kyiv with an area of almost 100 sq. m.
Oleksii Dniprov worked as deputy head of the Office of the President until 2024. The SBI began investigating Vasyl Prodan’s activities in 2025, when Dniprov had already left his high-ranking post.
Oleksii Dniprov
Currently, the SBI is investigating Prodan’s misappropriation of Ukrvydavpoligrafiya funds: schemes involving leases, fictitious services, and legalization through luxury cars. The Main Investigation Department is conducting the pretrial investigation under part 5 of art. 5 191, part 2 of art. 364, and part 3 of art. 209 of the Criminal Code. Procedural guidance is provided by prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to the investigation’s version, officials of JSC DAC Ukrvydavpoligrafiya and subordinated enterprises — in particular JSC Publishing House Kyivska Pravda, JSC Poligrafkniga, JSC UKRNDISVD, JSC Ukrpoligrafpostach, JSC Kharkiv Book Factory Globus — by prior conspiracy as a group of persons since 2025 have been misappropriating funds of state enterprises on a particularly large scale.
The key figure in the case materials is the head of the holding. The investigation believes that he, abusing his official position, organized the leasing of property of subordinated enterprises to controlled companies at understated prices.
These companies then leased the premises to the real sector at market rates, often for cash and without full reporting in tax statements. According to information available to the investigation, about 8 million UAH was withdrawn monthly in this way.
A separate scheme under study is the withdrawal of funds through affiliated LLCs and individual entrepreneurs under the guise of services and works that were either not provided or were performed by the state enterprises’ own employees.
Among the companies mentioned in the materials are LLC KETS, LLC Eurobudserviss, LLC BK AstraPlus, LLC Tekhnokratt (later B. Padel Ukraine), LLC Komora 29, LLC Antolohiya, LLC Kyiv Racket Sports Park, LLC Vision Construction (later N. Padel Ukraine), LLC Logistic Development, LLC Pony-Club, NGO Trinity Hub, LLC Missoni, LLC Dalechin, LLC Business Finance Group, and others.
According to the investigation, the funds were cashed out through accounts of a number of individual entrepreneurs, and the holding’s head received the cash directly from the founders and directors of the controlled structures and distributed it among the participants.
The case also includes an episode of the illegal re-registration of a non-residential building with an area of 718,2 sq. m on Oleksandra Dovzhenka Street, 3 in Kyiv (which belonged to JSC Poligrafkniga) to LLC Business Finance Group.
The illegally obtained funds, according to the materials, were laundered through the construction of sports complexes, the purchase of courts, real estate transactions in Ukraine and Europe, and the purchase of cars through leasing: Mercedes-Benz GLS, Porsche Macan, Porsche Panamera, Mercedes-Benz Vito, Mercedes-Benz V300, Volkswagen Touareg (the latter is registered to LLC Eurobudserviss).
Investigators searched a Volkswagen Touareg (owner — LLC Sonton, EDRPOU 40407737) used by PERSON_6. Two locked phones were seized from the cabin: an iPhone 14 Pro Max in a clear case and an iPhone 12 Pro Max in a black case. Both belong to Prodan.
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