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Victor Kiyanovskyi, a deputy of the Chernihiv Regional Council who chairs the land commission and is involved in agribusiness, has become the subject of a journalistic investigation. The authors’ attention was drawn to hundreds of family real estate properties, thousands of land plots, mentions of related companies in criminal proceedings, and government procurements by a company run by his son-in-law.
This is reported in an investigation by Anastasiia Vasylenko for “Stop Corruption TV.”
The family’s land assets and enterprises
According to open registries, the deputy’s wife, Olha Kiyanovska, owns more than 340 real estate properties, including more than 300 land plots. At the same time, LLC “Ichnianske,” which Victor Kiyanovskyi heads, manages over 4,6 thousand land plots.
The company is mentioned in materials of proceedings concerning possible unauthorized occupation of municipal land. In that case, investigators asked the court to impose an arrest on the harvest grown on fields adjacent to the plots leased by the company.
Ichnia’s mayor, Olena Buturlym, told journalists that Kiyanovskyi regularly files applications to obtain land for use. According to her, the city council has not received assistance from the deputy for the community.
Connections with “Rostok-Holding”
Previously, Victor Kiyanovskyi owned a stake of 30% in Rostok-Holding. companies from this group are implicated in a criminal case opened in 2018 regarding the possible embezzlement of more than 21 million dollars as part of the grain project “Zernotrading.”
In that case, the court imposed arrests on grain and the assets of the group’s enterprises. Law enforcement opened a separate proceeding in 2019 concerning the possible removal of arrested grain from LLC “Kombikormnyk” in Ichnia.
As stated in a biographical note, in 2020 Kiyanovskyi ceased to be a beneficiary of the holding.
Exports to Russia and a suspect in a collaborationism case
The investigation also mentions the “Ichnia Dry Milk and Butter Plant,” which is linked to the deputy’s family. According to the journalists, in 2015 the enterprise exported products to Russia.
Among the former founders of companies associated with Kiyanovskyi is Serhii Rybachok. In 2023 the Security Service of Ukraine informed him of suspicion of collaborationist activity.
Son-in-law’s company and government procurements
Journalists also noted the businesses of the deputy’s relatives. According to the Unified State Register, his son-in-law, Serhii Yasenivka, is the director and founder of the private enterprise “Ichnia Concrete.”
That company won 15 public procurements worth a total of 8,9 million hryvnias. Major customers include the enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” and regional forestry enterprises.
Another son-in-law of Kiyanovskyi, Yevhen Khainatskyi, serves as a judge at the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv.
Film crew obstructed while working
During filming on the premises of one of the enterprises, security personnel obstructed the journalists’ work. Later, police officers arrived twice at the film crew’s location.
Victor Kiyanovskyi himself did not answer journalists’ phone calls. The editorial office also sent information requests by email and registered them with the Ichnia City Council. No responses had been received at the time of publication.
The editorial office said it is ready to publish the positions of all mentioned parties after receiving them.
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