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Recently the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv seized accounts, crypto wallets and corporate rights to 1,3 billion UAH in more than 40 firms in Ukraine that may be connected to the former owner of the bankrupt “Delta Bank,” Mykola Lahun. In addition, dozens of plots totaling more than 600 ha and more than 17 thousand sq. m of residential and non-residential premises were seized. Lahun and his associates are suspected of laundering funds obtained by criminal means in especially large amounts. The case involves at least 23 billion UAH in damages caused by siphoning funds through schemes and nominee companies from the Deposit Guarantee Fund. Among the list of companies published in the court decision about the seizure are some that have never before been publicly mentioned in connection with Lahun’s cases. In this publication we reveal who exactly stands behind these firms and why they ended up on the ex-owner of Delta’s “empire” list.
The National Police opened criminal proceeding No. 42026000000000563 in May 2026. According to the investigation, Lahun and his circle appropriated depositors’ funds from Delta Bank and subsequently legalized them by purchasing a number of land plots, real estate objects, corporate rights of Ukrainian and foreign business entities, securities, vehicles and other movable property registered to nominee persons in Ukraine and foreign countries. The case materials also mention a back office in Kyiv through which Lahun controls his assets and collects profits.
In particular, income from renting out illegally acquired real estate amounts to at least $200 thousand in cash monthly. Lahun has previously been charged in schemes involving transferring funds to offshore jurisdictions, embezzling NBU refinancing funds and failing to repay loans to state banks, as well as tax evasion. In the case about 23 billion UAH in damages to the Deposit Guarantee Fund, only weak commercial hearings had been held until recently. But the emergence of a separate criminal proceeding on laundering illegally acquired assets elevates the “Lahun case” in the criminal hierarchy and makes it a priority for law enforcement. Within the proceeding the court seized both accounts and the corporate rights of Lahun’s “pounds” companies. The court prohibited re-registering them to other owners, something Lahun’s back office had regularly done over the past year — after the National Security and Defense Council imposed sanctions on him for collaborating with Russia.
For “researchers of Mykola Lahun’s activities” and former defrauded counterparties who want to recover their funds, the list of companies the investigation considers connected to the ex-owner of Delta is especially interesting. They are connected to such an extent that, investigators believe, funds belonging to Lahun himself could be on their accounts. The case also involves companies that previously belonged to Lahun’s sister Antonina (the media have repeatedly written about how she is rebuilding life in the UK and preparing to launder her brother’s reputation there) and the former chief lawyer of Delta, Hanna Hutsaliuk (her law firm “BeRight Advocacy” is considered the core of Lahun’s back office in Kyiv).
However, far more interesting is the appearance on the list of a whole series of firms that have rarely or never publicly appeared in the same sentence as Lahun’s surname. Their presence indicates a much larger scale of the ex-owner of Delta’s shadow business than was previously known.
Former managers
The first to draw attention is the company ‘Rids’ with capital of 53 million UAH, which, according to YouControl, patented a method for making disposable tableware and drinking straws from reed. Its Facebook page confirms that this concerns production of that product. However, the company has not updated the page since 2023. Through “Rids” Lahun is also connected to former head of FC “Zhitlo-Kapital” Dmytro Kravchenko. A number of his companies connected to his investment fund “Aris” were also mentioned in court rulings. In particular, these include LLC “Mediament” (39918252), LLC “Torgova hrupa Globus” (42555171), LLC “Alkad” (42894483), LLC “Credit Karma” (43530252). Kravchenko himself is a figure in criminal proceedings concerning embezzlement of funds during construction of numerous residential complexes in Kyiv. Therefore a number of “joint” firms with Lahun will likely “intersect” in seizure orders.
The list also includes companies of Olena Rynda — LLC “Alliance Investments” (39687198) and LLC “Alliance Finance Group” (39706112). Olena Rynda is a former board member of Delta Bank. She was already a subject of criminal proceedings concerning the removal of funds from Delta Bank in especially large amounts. This concerns the notorious LLC “Boni i Klaid,” through which Lahun and his associates siphoned almost $75 million via fictitious loans.
In addition, the court seized assets and accounts of LLC “Transcommodities” (40483137), founded by Lisippe LTD from the Seychelles. Before that the company was owned by Fenix Trading LP from Scotland, whose ultimate beneficiary was Oleksandr Chabala, one of Lahun’s key top managers. But through literally a few corporate “handshakes” this firm is connected to LLC “Delta Oil” (39232824) — a company that handled oilseed logistics at the port of Chornomorsk. A co-founder of that firm was Yuliia Misiura — the wife of the first deputy chairman of Delta Bank’s board, Vitalii Misiura, who was also suspected of embezzling the institution’s funds.
Another company not previously mentioned in the context of Lahun’s criminal cases is LLC “Pamir Capital Partners” (formerly LLC “InvestProfiConsult”) (36186765). The secret is that it was once called “Delta Leasing” and provided leasing services to Delta Bank customers; now it is prudently owned by a citizen of Tajikistan. Interestingly, it was at this company that Mykola Lahun became employed in 2021 in order to challenge a court ruling temporarily banning him from traveling abroad. Employment as an economist with a salary of only 14 thousand UAH and a monthly deduction from his salary of 50% toward repayment of a debt to Oshchadbank was enough grounds for the Pecherskyi District Court to lift any travel restrictions on Lahun. Journalists then calculated that to repay a debt of 4.5 billion UAH to Oshchadbank, Lahun would need 27 thousand years.
Land assets
A separate group of companies of Vladyslav Zdovbytskyi stands out. He is one of the managers of well-known Lahun companies. Investigators likely found traces of the ex-Delta owner’s activity in a number of firms whose names had not previously been public. In particular, this concerns LLC “Rokach Limited” (41339580), LLC “Kobald-3” (formerly LLC “Elavonconsult”) (38811385). Zdovbytskyi is currently the founder of LLC “Citadel Holding Ukraine” (36386732), which was not included in the list of seized companies, and LLC “Grafiti-2” (33235133), which is included in this list along with other firms. He was previously a founder of LLC “Molybdenite” (39932990) and is the chief accountant of LLC “Ahalem” (32931633).
Some of these companies own a large number of land plots. For example, for “Rokach Limited” 98 plots in Bucha totaling 1,56 ha were seized (microplots of 0,01–0,05 ha each, clearly for residential development), for “Molybdenite” — 5 plots totaling 16 ha, “Grafiti-2” — 4 plots on 6,3 ha.
Also appearing for the first time on the list were companies connected with Oleksandr Bobryshev — LLC “Kaverso” (34635105), LLC “Stroybud Illichivsk” (38238715), LLC “Illichivsk
Construction” (38238715) and the Cyprus WONSTER MANAGEMENT LIMITED, liquidated in 2018, which continues to be a co-founder of “Stroybud.” “Stroybud” owns two land plots totaling 1,75 ha. Prior to Bobryshev, “Kaverso” was owned by the father of the aforementioned Vladyslav Zdovbytskyi — Ivan Zdovbytskyi. In decade-old news all these companies are mentioned as part of a scheme to write off companies’ obligations to Delta Bank, which had already been taken over by the temporary administration. In fact these are firms of interest to Lahun that refused to repay about $5 million of the loan they received.
The seized assets list included firms of Oleksii Melnyk — LLC “Samira Limited” (38346911), LLC “Vivat City” (39243747) and LLC “Palladium Real Estate” (45319368). Melnyk is known as the initiator of the “Soltanivka” industrial park in Fastiv district (Kyiv region). “Samira” owns 11 plots totaling 44 ha in Kyiv region specifically for this park. Previously “Samira” was owned by Lahun’s Cypriot company Kalouma Holdings Limited (liquidated in 2024), and also by LLC “Clever Management” (now LLC “TM Holding,” also under seizure), which was controlled by Antonina Lahun. Kalouma also owned LLC “Vivat City,” and Melnyk was a co-owner there for at least six years. Through “Vivat” he also owned “Palladium” (a small premises in Dnipro, which was also seized).
A seizure was also placed on the accounts and corporate rights of LLC “Chornohory” (33604825), in which the spouses Oksana and Valerii Kolhofer are formally beneficiaries (the latter once headed the Letychiv and Khmelnytskyi district state administrations from the orbit of the “regional” governor Yadukha; both served as local council deputies). The company owns 95 land plots in Ivano-Frankivsk region (the court did not seize them). Its main listed activity is hotels with restaurants. The Kolhofers have formally owned the company for more than 15 years. No direct link to Lahun has been found, but it’s worth noting that adjacent to the Kolhofers’ plots, nearby in Bystrytsia, the ex-owner of Delta Bank owns almost 100 plots on 173 ha for development through LLC “Concept Holding” (seized by the court). So it is quite possible the “neighbors” are connected by economic ties and specific land interests.
In LLC “Murdock” (43327424), whose beneficiary is Ventis Limited from Cyprus, there are two large real estate objects in Kyiv (5,7 thousand sq. m) and the land plot under them. The company was involved in a criminal proceeding concerning the illegal alienation of these buildings — these are the former premises of Fidobank in the city center, which were removed from the bank’s balance, as a result of which, according to the prosecutor’s office, the bank went bankrupt. Investigators likely have information about Lahun’s interest in this business via the Cypriot offshore Venties Limited.
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Thus, despite the sanctions imposed in 2025 for collaborating with Russia, the ex-owner of Delta Bank, Mykola Lahun, who is hiding from Ukrainian justice in Austria, until at least recently continued to reap significant benefits from development and financial business in Ukraine, using for this a huge network of “pounds.” After the seizure of accounts and assets of these companies, financial flows will likely be somewhat reduced. But true justice in the “Lahun case,” in which he caused more than 50 billion UAH in damage to Ukraine, would be the confiscation of these and other assets connected to the ex-financier in favor of the state to compensate the losses borne by the National Bank, Ukreximbank, Oshchadbank and the Deposit Guarantee Fund.
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