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The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine found that in nine Kyiv municipal health care facilities, premises are rented by firms that provide funeral services, five of the nine contracts being with the same private company - "Petro Veliky." The committee established that some of the premises in the inspected facilities were leased without auctions, and some tenants did not have official contracts with municipal funeral services. In response to a query from the Informer, the AMCU clarified that they are simultaneously examining the interaction of Kyiv hospitals with funeral firms within separate control measures.
Whom Kyiv hospital leaders trust
According to monitoring conducted over 2025-2026 years, the Antimonopoly Committee interviewed nearly 250 local authorities across Ukraine and found more than 70 cases where hospital premises are rented to entities that provide funeral services. The most cases were recorded in Kyiv and Kharkiv. In the capital, nine rental agreements for hospital premises with funeral-service companies were concluded, and five of them pertain to private enterprise "Petro Veliky."
According to YouControl, the owner of the private firm "Petro Veliky" is Alla Lendar from Cherkasy. In the 2000-years, the firm was led by her father Petro Pohrebnyi. The firm is named in his honor, not after the Russian czar Peter the First, as some may think. The company is registered in Kyiv in 1994 year. In 2025 year, the firm "Petro Veliky" received 9 million 285 thousand UAH in revenue - significantly more than in previous years. Meanwhile, since 2020, the company has won on tenders just slightly less than 1,19 million UAH.
Alla Lendar has another firm with the same name. It is registered in 1998 year, currently with an address in the village of Khotiv in the Kyiv region (where the owner was born). Over the past year, revenue amounted to 920 thousand UAH. This firm won subcontracts on tenders for 178 thousand UAH since 2021 year. In other words, for both companies, Lendar’s income from budget organizations makes up a small share of profits. She is also registered as an individual entrepreneur.
Public materials about Alla Lendar’s activities, including critical media coverage alleging monopolization of Kyiv’s funeral-services market and overly expensive services for families of fallen soldiers, have appeared. However, most publications about Alla Lendar’s biography are positive and paid for, with elements of whitewashing and hyperbole of achievements.
Interestingly, during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency she served on public councils under the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the State Service for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Development, and the Ministry of Agricultural Policy. She also served on the Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Mykola Azarov. After the change of power following Euromaidan, she was part of the public council under the Ministry of Regional Development. Between 2007-2012 years, Alla Lendar worked as an assistant to a People’s Deputy from the Party of Regions, Ihor Prasolov, who later for more than a year served as Minister of Economy.
Regarding which funeral companies in 4 other capital healthcare facilities have signed rental agreements—AMCU does not disclose. Which hospitals and with whom in Kyiv the agreements were made—The Antimonopoly Committee did not answer the Informer’s questions. This information is not indicated in the AMCU’s explanatory guidelines on its website.
What the AMCU points to
The Antimonopoly Committee noted that, in Kyiv, most tenants of such premises do not have contracts with funeral-service providers for the provision of services. At the same time, according to AMCU, there are cases when hospital staff recommend services to relatives of the deceased specifically from those firms that rent the premises at the morgue’s address.
"Sometimes such recommendations contained signs of coercion and risks of adverse consequences for the consumer due to refusal to accept the service from the recommended provider," the AMCU explanatory notes say.
In response to the Informer’s official inquiry, Deputy Chairman Maksym Sandyha clarified that the published explanations do not contain conclusions about the monopoly position of particular Kyiv hospitals or firms and do not fix exact facts of interaction between them. At the same time, he confirmed that the issue of cooperation between Kyiv medical facilities and funeral companies is already being studied separately by the Northern Interregional Territorial Office of the Committee.
"During control measures, we will study, in particular, the issue of interaction between Kyiv’s health care facilities and entities operating in the funeral services field," said Maksym Sandyha, Deputy Chairman of the Committee.
According to him, at the time of preparing the response, this check was still ongoing - since 2025 year. It covers not only Kyiv but also Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv regions.
Why such leasing creates unequal market conditions
The AMCU explains that funeral services are socially significant: demand arises suddenly, consumers cannot delay decisions and mostly choose one company that organizes the entire funeral. If a firm already rents premises directly in a hospital or morgue, it gains a significant advantage over competitors simply due to location, not due to service quality or price.
The committee also documented cases where relatives of the deceased were refused timely body delivery if they did not order services from the company renting the morgue-adjacent premises. There were also cases where staff of the Bureau of Forensic Medicine charged for genuinely free medical services for the benefit of the tenants of those same premises.
As the Committee’s analysis shows, local authorities and health care facilities can rent premises in health facilities to funeral-service providers and other business entities without competitive procedures (no auctions). This also applies to the renewal of lease agreements, especially in connection with the introduction of martial law in Ukraine.
Overall in Ukraine during 2025 year, funeral services were provided by 580 municipal funeral services and 1726 various forms of ownership entities, and the total market volume reached nearly 2,5 billion UAH. Nevertheless, AMCU advised local authorities and health care institutions not to grant undue advantages to specific companies when leasing premises and to consider competition-law requirements.
Earlier, Informer reported that the AMCU fined participants in a cartel on Kyiv’s municipal services market by more than 175,8 million UAH: the committee found that a municipal enterprise, together with several private companies, agreed to divide the market, restricting entry for other players. We also wrote about a study of the funeral-business market in Ukraine, which showed that more than 3 thousand companies and individual entrepreneurs operate in this sector, with nearly a third being municipal enterprises founded by local authorities.
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