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23 September Kyiv Court of Appeal annulled the decision of the Pecherskyi Court that had prohibited “Slidstvo.Info” and the Anti‑Corruption Center (Center for Countering Corruption, CCC) from publishing an investigation into the real estate of Oleksandr Sukhachov, the brother of the head of the State Bureau of Investigation.
This was reported by “Slidstvo.Info.”
“It is very important that this decision was annulled, because it was aimed at restricting freedom of speech. This should stop further attempts to ban journalistic materials, especially high‑profile investigations,” emphasized Oksana Maksymeniuk, media lawyer and counsel in this case for “Slidstvo.Info.”
What preceded it
6 July 2026, on the day when “Slidstvo.Info” together with the Center for Countering Corruption (CCC) were preparing to publish an investigation into 143 real estate properties of Oleksandr Sukhachov, the brother of the director of the State Bureau of Investigation, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv prohibited the publication.
Judge Vovk decided that an online publication about the property status of Oleksii Sukhachov’s brother, the details of how he acquired real estate objects, and the sources of their financing could cause irreparable harm to a private individual that could not be remedied after the material was released. In addition, in the court’s view, it violated the commercial secret of LLC “Parkovyi-2.” The court’s decision implied that the SBI director’s brother had not given permission to disclose information about his 143 real estate properties.
Both “Slidstvo.Info” and the CCC saw this decision as pressure on journalists and an attack on freedom of speech.
17 July, in a show of solidarity eight Ukrainian media outlets simultaneously published the investigation about 143 real estate properties of the SBI director’s brother that had been prepared by journalists from “Slidstvo.Info” and the CCC. Later, 19 more media joined those eight. As a result, the investigation that the court had banned about the property of the SBI chief’s brother received 4 million views.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Апеляційний суд скасував ухвалу судді Вовка, яка забороняла «Слідству.Інфо» публікувати розслідування про майно брата керівника ДБР ". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Slidstvo.Info.