Land, Business, and Family Assets: Journalists Investigated the Wealth of Victor Kiyanovsky, a Deputy of the Chernihiv Regional Council

Chair of the land committee of the Chernihiv regional council Kiyanovsky: thousands of plots, criminal proceedings, family tenders, and closed doors

Journalists conducted an investigation into the business and wealth of the family of Victor Kiyanovsky, a deputy of the Chernihiv regional council. He has worked in local politics since 2010 and heads the regional council’s land committee, while also running a large agricultural business.

More details – in the investigation by Anastasia Vasilenko for Stop Corruption TV.

According to open registers, the deputy’s wife, Olga Kiyanovska, owns more than 340 real estate objects, including more than 300 land plots. LLC "Ichnianske", which Kiyanovsky heads, manages more than 4,6 thousand land plots. The enterprise is mentioned in materials of a case concerning possible unauthorized occupation of municipal land: investigators asked the court to seize the harvest on fields adjacent to the company’s leased lands. The mayor of Ichni, Olena Buturlim, told journalists that the deputy regularly applies for land use, and the city council has not received aid for the community from him.

In the past, Kiyanovsky owned 30% of the shares of Rostok-Holding. Companies in this group are mentioned in a criminal case opened in 2018 regarding possible appropriation of more than 21 million dollars in the grain project "Zernotreyding". In the framework of the case, a court imposed arrests on grain and assets of the group’s enterprises. Separately in 2019 a case was opened regarding possible export of seized grain from LLC "Kombikormnyk" in Ichni. According to a biographical note, in 2020 the deputy left the holding’s beneficiaries.

Journalists also found that the Ichni Dairy Plant and Butter, associated with the family, exported products to Russia in 2015. Among the historical founders of Kiyanovsky’s companies is Sergei Rybachok, who in 2023 was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine for suspicion of collaboration activities.

The deputy’s son-in-law, Sergei Yasenivka, according to the Unified State Register, is the director and founder of LLC "Ichnianskiy Beton". The company won 15 public procurements totaling 8,9 million hryvnias, with main customers being "Forests of Ukraine" and regional forestry enterprises. The second son-in-law, Yevhen Khaynatsky, works as a judge at the Pechersky district court of Kyiv.

While on site, a security guard at one of the enterprises hindered filming, and later police arrived twice. Victor Kiyanovsky did not answer a phone call. Information requests were sent by email and registered with Ichni City Council. As of publication, responses have not been received. The editorial board is ready to publish the positions of all mentioned parties as soon as they are obtained.