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Million-dollar embezzlements at Ukrvydavpolihraphiya: the head of the state company Prodán has become a figure in a DBR case
Vasyl Prodán, chair of the Board (executive director) of the state company Ukrvydavpolihraphiya and vice president of the Ukrainian paddle federation, became a figure in a case about illegally appropriating funds of the enterprise for tens of millions of hryvnias.
While working in a state structure, Prodán simultaneously built the largest in Ukraine network of paddle and other racquet sports venues. All these assets are largely registered in the name of his wife Alesya Prodán, assistant Hanna Platok, and other straw persons. Below is a list of Ukrainian paddle companies (and beyond) that belong to Prodán’s pool, including the most popular in Kyiv, Racket Sports Park.
In 2026 year, Alesya Prodán bought for 430 thousand euros the largest paddle center in Girona, Spain, where there are 10 indoor and outdoor courts. A confirmation is an excerpt from Spanish registers regarding PADEL GIRONA UALA SL.
Vasyl Prodán promotes paddle as a fashionable sport for the Ukrainian establishment together with his longtime acquaintance Oleksiy Dniprovy, the current rector of the National University of Construction and Architecture.
Dniprovy holds the position of president of the Ukrainian paddle federation, and Prodán is vice president. Dniprovy’s wife, Suzanna Savchuk, who works in the Office of the General Prosecutor, rents from Alesya Prodán an apartment in Kyiv with an area of almost 100 square meters.
Until 2024 year Oleksiy Dniprovy worked as deputy head of the Office of the President. The DBR began investigating Vasyl Prodán’s activities in 2025 year, already after Dniprovy’s dismissal from office.
Currently the DBR is investigating Vasyl Prodán’s appropriation of funds of Ukrvydavpolihraphiya through rental schemes, fictitious services and legalization through premium cars. The Main Investigation Department is investigating the case under ch. 5 Art. 191, ch. 2 Art. 364 and ch. 3 Art. 209 KK. Prosecution is conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to the investigation, the officials of JSC DAK Ukrvydavpolihraphiya and subordinate enterprises—in particular JSC Kyivskaya Pravda Publishing House, JSC Polygraphbook, JSC UKRNDISVD, JSC UKRPOLIGRAPHPOSTACH, JSC Kharkiv Book Factory Globs, and others—by prior arrangement of persons, since 2025 year, unlawfully appropriated funds of state enterprises in especially large amounts.
A key figure in the case materials is the head of the holding. The investigation believes that, abusing his official position, he organized leasing of property of subordinate enterprises to controlled companies at undervalued prices.
These companies subsequently leased premises to the real sector at market rates, often for cash and without full reflection in tax reporting. According to the investigation, about 8 million UAH were withdrawn monthly in this way.
Separately, a scheme of withdrawing funds through affiliated LLCs and private entrepreneurs under the guise of services and works, which were either not provided or performed by the state enterprises’ own employees, is being investigated.
Among the companies mentioned in the materials are LLC KETS, LLC Eurobudservice, LLC BK AstraPlus, LLC Technokratt (later B. Padel Ukraine), LLC Komora 29, LLC Anthology, LLC Kyiv Rocket Sports Park, LLC Vision Construction (later N. Padel Ukraine), LLC Logistic Development, LLC Pony-Club, NGO Trinity Hub, LLC Missioni, LLC Dalecin, LLC Business Finance Group, and others.
Funds, according to the investigation, were laundered through accounts of several private entrepreneurs, and the head of the holding received cash directly from the founders and directors of the controlled structures and distributed it among the participants.
Also an episode of illegally re-registering a non-residential building with an area of 718,2 square meters on Alexander Dovzhenko Street, 3 in Kyiv (belonged to JSC Polygraphbook) to LLC Business Finance Group.
The illegally obtained funds, as noted in the materials, were legalized through the construction of sports complexes, the purchase of courts, real estate transactions in Ukraine and Europe, and also the purchase of cars under lease: Mercedes-Benz GLS, Porsche Macan, Porsche Panamera, Mercedes-Benz Vito, Mercedes-Benz V300, Volkswagen Touareg (the latter registered to LLC Eurobudservice).
Investigators conducted a search of the Volkswagen Touareg (owner — LLC Sontón, EDPRPOU 40407737), which Prodán used. In the cabin, two locked phones were seized: iPhone 14 Pro Max in a transparent case and iPhone 12 Pro Max in a black case. Both belong to Prodán. The investigation continues.
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