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Grandma's Gifts and a Range Rover "by Agreement": How the Family of Odesa Prosecutor Svatok Bought Downtown Kyiv for Half Price
100 thousand dollars from grandmothers, real estate with a huge discount, and a Range Rover at an “agreed” price: how the prosecutor of Odesa region, Andriy Svatok, lives.
When Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko publicly declares, “I will personally deal with each one,” it is perceived as a promise to take responsibility for the entire system. However, regarding Andriy Svatok, whom he appointed head of the Odesa regional prosecutor’s office, no “personal interventions” have yet been noticed — despite a number of facts that are hard to call ordinary, reports Bihus info.
Andriy Svatok took the position of head of the Odesa regional prosecutor’s office in July, becoming one of Kravchenko’s first personnel decisions. Before that, he built a career in the system where his father also worked — Heorhiy Svatok, who spent about 25 years in the prosecutor’s offices, nearly 10 of them in the Prosecutor General’s Office. Svatok Jr. himself rose from assistant prosecutor to first deputy prosecutor of Kyiv region. Ruslan Kravchenko and Oleg Tkalenko — another “insider” who received a promotion — previously worked in that same region.
In 2019, while head of the Mykolaiv regional prosecutor’s office, Andriy Svatok purchased an apartment of about 130 sq. m in an elite club building in central Kyiv. The market value of such units at that time was about 180 000 dollars. The declaration lists an amount of approximately 100 000 dollars. The source of funds — gifts from two grandmothers: 77-year-old Yevheniia Svatok and 80-year-old Larysa Moskovchenko. Each gifted roughly 50 000 dollars.
Explanation for the origin of the money from the first grandmother: her husband ran a sugar factory for over 30 years, which later became private. Regarding the second grandmother, Svatok only “supposes” that she may have sold land. There are no specific details.
The prosecutor’s wife, Alla Svatok, in her declaration for 2019 listed 200 000 dollars in cash for the first time. Already in 2020 she bought an apartment of about 60 sq. m in the same club building where her husband had earlier purchased a residence. The market value of similar apartments is about 100 000 dollars. The deal again went through at a price roughly half the market rate.
In April 2019, Alla Svatok purchased a parking space in the same building for approximately 3 500 dollars, although the market price for such objects in central Kyiv is significantly higher. In 2023 she bought a 2021 model Range Rover for 35 000 dollars, while the listing price indicated 55 000 dollars. The explanation — “the parties agreed on the price after assessing the technical condition.”
The family also owns a plot in Rusanivski Sady in Kyiv (market value about 70 000 dollars), a parking space in Brovary, and a house under construction in Novi Petrivtsi. The geography of the assets goes beyond what would be logical for their place of residence.
Svatok claims that 200 000 dollars belonging to his wife are her personal funds, accumulated before marriage, and were entered into the declaration “according to her words, out of respect for personal life.” Formally everything is reflected in the reports. Formally no violations have been identified.
In practice, however, a consistent picture emerges: elite real estate with discounts of 40–50%, parking spaces “for a symbolic price,” a car discounted by 20 000 dollars, large sums of cash with the wife, and gifts from elderly relatives totaling 100 000 dollars.
Against this background, Ruslan Kravchenko’s statements that he “knows everyone who acts against the prosecutor’s office” and will “personally sort it out” sound particularly striking. The question is different: will he pay attention to those who work inside the system, whose property histories raise no fewer doubts than those the prosecutor’s office usually accuses.
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