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Journalists conducted an investigation into the business activities and wealth of the family of Chernihiv Regional Council deputy Viktor Kiyanovskyi. He has been active in local politics since 2010 and heads the regional council’s land commission, while also running a large agricultural business.
Read more in the investigation by Anastasiia Vasylenko for “Stop Corruption TV.”
According to open registries, the deputy’s wife, Olha Kiyanovska, owns more than 340 real estate objects, of which over 300 are land plots. LLC “Ichnianske,” which Kiyanovskyi heads, manages more than 4,6 thousand hectares of land. The company is mentioned in materials of proceedings concerning possible unauthorized occupation of communal land: investigators asked the court to seize the harvest on fields bordering the company’s leased lands. Ichni mayor Olena Buturlym told journalists that the deputy regularly files applications to obtain land for use, and the city council has not received any assistance from him.
In the past, Kiyanovskyi owned 30% of the shares of “Rostok-Holding.” Companies of this group appear in a criminal proceeding opened in 2018 concerning the possible embezzlement of more than 21 million dollars as part of the grain project “Zernotrading.” In that case, the court imposed seizures on grain and assets of the group’s companies. Separately, in 2019 a proceeding was opened regarding the possible removal of seized grain from LLC “Kombikormnyk” in Ichnia. According to a biographical note, in 2020 the deputy left the list of the holding’s beneficiaries.
Journalists also found that the family-linked “Ichnia Dry Milk and Butter Plant” exported products to Russia in 2015. Among the historical founders of Kiyanovskyi’s companies is Serhii Rybachok, who in 2023 was notified by the SBU of suspicion of collaborationist activity.
The deputy’s son-in-law, Serhii Yasenivka, according to the Unified State Register, is the manager and founder of PE “Ichnianskyi Beton.” The company won 15 public procurements worth 8,9 million hryvnias, with the main customers being “Forests of Ukraine” and regional forestry enterprises. The second son-in-law, Yevhen Khainatskyi, serves as a judge at the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv.
While reporting on site, the security guards of one of the enterprises obstructed filming, and later the police arrived twice at the film crew. Viktor Kiyanovskyi did not answer a phone call. Information requests were sent by email and registered with the Ichnia City Council. At the time of publication there are no responses. The editorial office is ready to publish the positions of all parties mentioned as soon as it receives them.
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