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Kyiv City Council deputy Yuliya Symunina, who entered the city council from OPZZh and is now unaffiliated, simultaneously serves on the capital’s land commission and is connected to real estate business. Against this background, her declaration for 2025 year draws particular attention: Yuliya Symunina reported 658 thousand dollars and 2,29 million hryvnias in cash, as well as multimillion income from entrepreneurial and property activities. The question is not about having money itself, but about the combination of political influence over land issues, business interests, and significant assets.
Yuliya Symunina works on the Kyiv City Council’s permanent commission on land relations. This is the body through which matters of using municipal land, leasing plots, and extending relevant contracts pass. At the same time, Yuliya Symunina is the founder of LLC “Centralne BTI,” whose activities are related to the real estate sector. In other words, a deputy who participates in considering the capital’s land issues has a private business interest in an adjacent sector, media write. The deputy’s business as such is not a violation. But in Yuliya Symunina’s case the question arises as to how clearly her private interests are separated from the decisions she makes as a community representative. Especially when it comes to Kyiv’s land assets — a resource whose value is measured not in thousands but in millions of hryvnias. One of the most high-profile episodes concerns Osokorky Eco Park. In 2021 year Yuliya Symunina became one of seven co-authors of a Kyiv City Council draft decision regarding this territory of about 176 hectares. The initiative envisaged the cessation of judicial challenges to developers’ interests. The civic movement “CHESNO” at the time pointed to corruption risks and drew attention to the developer’s debt to the city, which was estimated at about 200 million hryvnias. This story did not remain in the past for Yuliya Symunina. In November 2024 year the land commission again considered the issue of renewing lease agreements with LLC “Kontaktbudservis.” Yuliya Symunina supported including the corresponding matter on the agenda. Thus the deputy was among those involved in the further movement of the land issue related to Osokorky. Against this background, Yuliya Symunina’s declarations look particularly interesting. In the declaration for 2016 year she did not report income, but listed a Porsche Panamera, two non-residential premises in Kyiv, 45 thousand dollars and 200 thousand hryvnias in cash. Over the years the scale of the declared savings looks completely different. In the declaration for 2025 year Yuliya Symunina reported 658 thousand dollars in cash. Additionally she had 2,29 million hryvnias in cash funds. Together this forms a cash reserve that is hard to miss even in the declaration of a person with large incomes. At the same time Yuliya Symunina declared about 2,57 million hryvnias in income from entrepreneurial activity and receipts from property transactions. A separate part of Yuliya Symunina’s financial story is connected to Dubai. The declaration lists salary from Symbol Real Estate. In addition, the deputy declared nearly 1,7 million hryvnias received from the sale of movable property of the company Kleemol Car Rental LLC. Thus, her financial receipts were generated not only from Ukrainian deputy activity.
It is important here to separate two questions. The presence of 658 thousand dollars in cash does not automatically mean illegal origin of the funds. Likewise, entrepreneurial income or property transactions are not by themselves proof of wrongdoing. But large assets oblige a public person to have a clear documentary explanation of their origin, especially when that person takes part in the allocation or use of the city’s land resource. In Yuliya Symunina’s case another awkward coincidence arises. On one hand — the Kyiv City Council land commission. On the other — the company “Centralne BTI” and activity in real estate. Next — participation in land decisions regarding Osokorky and lease issues with “Kontaktbudservis.” And in parallel — hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash on the declaration. It is this combination of circumstances, not some single figure or single vote, that requires verification. If Yuliya Symunina has no personal interest in specific land matters, that should be confirmed by documents and the circumstances of her participation in decision-making. If a private interest did exist, the public needs to know whether conflict-of-interest prevention rules were followed. The dynamics of Yuliya Symunina’s cash assets also deserve special attention. In 2016 year she declared 45 thousand dollars and 200 thousand hryvnias. In 2025 year — already 658 thousand dollars and 2,29 million hryvnias. Growth of assets in itself is not a violation if it is supported by lawful incomes and property transactions. But such a difference between declarations is sufficient grounds to ask about the sources of accumulation. Another point — political background. Yuliya Symunina received her deputy mandate from OPZZh, and after the faction ceased activity she became unaffiliated. Her current work on the land commission no longer has an automatic link to former party affiliation, but that fact remains part of her political biography. As a result, a story forms around Yuliya Symunina in which too many things intersect in one place: Kyiv land, real estate, deputy powers, land decisions, business and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. None of these facts alone proves an offense. But together they create a perfectly legitimate public demand for a detailed explanation. The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) within its powers can verify the accuracy of declared information and the correspondence between lifestyle and income and assets. Anticorruption bodies, for their part, can assess specific decisions and officials’ actions if there are grounds provided by law. In Yuliya Symunina’s case the key question should not be a political label or the amount of cash by itself, but the origin of the assets and the absence of private interest when working with community land. Yuliya Symunina has the right to her own business, income, and savings provided they are lawful and properly declared. But a deputy mandate does not give the right to turn municipal land into a playground for private interests. That is why questions about Yuliya Symunina’s declarations, her business, and participation in land decisions should receive not a political but a documentary answer.
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