Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
He said that the information published by journalists does not correspond to reality.
In July 17 Ukrainian media outlets, including ZN.UA, published a piece titled "Apartments at the Price of a Smartphone," which stated that Oleksandr Sukhachov, the brother of State Bureau of Investigation head Oleksiy Sukhachov, purchased 143 apartments and office premises at book value — significantly below market prices — from LLC "Parkovyi-2." But the SBI head has only now commented on the publication for the first time. In a comment to journalists from "Slidstvo.Info," who encountered him a few days ago at one of Kyiv's sports grounds, Sukhachov said that the information about the real estate "does not correspond to reality."
"First of all, you are entering my personal space right now, I’m exercising. Second, this is my brother’s life. The information does not correspond to reality at all," Sukhachov said. "You ruined my entire workout, my work mood. Ask my brother — what does this have to do with me?".
According to the investigators, since July 2018 he purchased 143 real estate units in one of Kharkiv's residential complexes at prices ranging from 24 to 49 thousand hryvnias (from 932 to 1 856 dollars) each. Later these apartments and offices were re-registered or sold to third parties, so the man no longer owns them. Sukhachov bought them from LLC "Parkovyi-2." This company built complexes without proper permit documents under a scheme of reconstructing non-residential buildings, which later put it "in the crosshairs" of the SBI, but no suspicions were formally announced to the developer.
The piece "Apartments at the Price of a Smartphone" was published as part of the "143 Initiative" — an act of solidarity by Ukrainian media outlets that decided to support colleagues from "Slidstvo.Info" and the Anti-Corruption Action Center, whose investigation the Pecherskyi Court initially banned from publication, even though journalists Alina Stryzhak and Maksym Savchuk had already collected all the information. One of the co-authors, to whom the court decision did not apply, passed the material to Ukrainian media. However, in 23 September the Kyiv Court of Appeal canceled that decision.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item ""Зіпсували тренування і настрій": директор ДБР Сухачов вперше прокоментував скандальне розслідування про нерухомість брата". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ZN.ua.