Curator of the “Great Construction” Yuriy Holyk Cleans Up Google Ahead of Entry into Veteran Billions

Curator of the “Great Construction” Yuriy Holyk Cleans Up Google Ahead of Entry into Veteran Billions

Yuriy Holyk, who was born in Luhansk in 1977, once worked in media and advertising. In 2015 he ended up at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, where he worked alongside Valentyn Reznichenko. Later Holyk began overseeing the infrastructure direction, and in 2019 he became one of the public coordinators of the presidential program “Great Construction.”

Later his name appeared in criminal proceedings. NABU investigated a case concerning possible embezzlement of budget funds during road construction and repair. In June 2024 Holyk left Ukraine and likely went to Austria.

For almost 2 years there was little public information about him. But at the end of June 2026 the situation changed.

Media began reporting a wave of complaints to Google alleging copyright infringement in publications that mention Holyk. According to Ukrrudprom, materials published as far back as 2022 were targeted by these complaints.

The mechanism is interesting: a page can be removed from search results even without refuting the facts stated in the material.

According to StopKor, none of the contested materials contained borrowed content that would violate copyright. In other words, these were original journalistic texts.

Simultaneously, since 2024 Holyk, through lawyers, has been trying to get a criminal case opened against NABU detectives under Article 387 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — “Disclosure of data on operational-search activities.” The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court refused to open the proceeding.

But there is another interesting point.

In April NGL.media published an investigation into a large state program to create veteran spaces. In 2025 the Ministry of Veterans launched a program to build such facilities using a single design.

We are talking about single-story buildings with an area of 1500 sq. m featuring a gym, rooms for consultations and psychological support, conference halls, and a small café.

For the creation of 22 spaces, the budget has already allocated 1,55 billion hryvnias. That is about 75 million hryvnias per building. If plans for 160 facilities are implemented, the total amount could reach approximately 12 billion hryvnias.

According to the investigation, the land plot for construction in Lutsk was allocated on 28 May 2025 — 3 weeks before the government adopted the corresponding resolution.

The adapted designs were expert-reviewed by LLC “UK Ekspertyza” and LLC “Nova-Ekspert.” Each facility’s review took less than a month.

The tenders were no less interesting. In all 7 projects in 2025 only one contractor participated in the bidding and received the orders. According to the investigation, the tender conditions effectively made it impossible for other companies to participate.

Construction of the 7 spaces began in the fall. Later it emerged that the cost of materials was significantly inflated in the estimates. The investigation’s authors link this story to Yuriy Holyk.

And here it is worth looking at the business of the former curator of the “Great Construction.”

Holyk owned 25% of LLC “Kreatyvna Kraina,” which provides consulting on commercial activity and management and has authorized capital of only 1000 hryvnias. The company organized a number of coworking spaces.

In 2023 its revenue grew to almost 39 million hryvnias compared to 1,8 million hryvnias in 2022. Net profit was 10,2 million hryvnias. But by the end of 2025 net profit had fallen nearly 20 times — to 588 thousand hryvnias.

The situation appears even worse, judging by open data, at LLC “Kreatyvny Shtat Hulyver.” Through “Kreatyvna Kraina” Holyk owns 10% of it. The company is in bankruptcy proceedings.

One of Gulliver’s co-owners is also suing the other founders over a debt to one of his companies in the amount of 10,4 million hryvnias.

Whether these financial problems are connected to Holyk’s interest in the multi-billion program of veteran spaces is an open question. But the shift from coworking spaces for freelancers to constructing facilities costing billions of budget hryvnias does look notable.

There is another story that keeps Holyk’s past in mind.

It concerns the construction of a water pipeline to Kryvyi Rih after the Kakhovka HPP blast. The project’s cost was 7,7 billion hryvnias. According to the investigation, its cost may have been inflated by about 3 billion hryvnias.

In addition, the investigation found that the scheme’s participants legalized goods and materials worth 187 million hryvnias and underreported VAT payments by another 20,5 million hryvnias.

One of the key figures in this story was named as Yuriy Holyk — the public coordinator of the “Great Construction.”

But the most problematic case for him remains the case of LLC “Budinvest Inzhyniring,” which is engaged in road and highway construction and has authorized capital of 1,05 million hryvnias.

According to the investigation’s version, in 2022 officials of the Dnipropetrovsk RSA awarded the company contracts for road construction and repair totaling 1,5 billion hryvnias. Part of the money, investigators believe, may have been siphoned off as payment for goods and services to accounts of fictitious companies.

A suspect in this case is Valentyn Reznichenko, who headed the Dnipropetrovsk RSA twice.

And now we return to the main question.

Why, after nearly 2 years of relative silence, did Yuriy Holyk suddenly begin actively fighting publications that mention his name?

Perhaps the answer should be sought not only in the matter of reputation but also in money, state programs, and criminal proceedings that remain the focus of law enforcement and journalists.