Millions in real estate, land disputes and NABU searches: what is known about Larisa Rohach’s property and judicial career?

A house in Zakarpattia, an apartment in Kyiv, million-hryvnia investments and construction in Onokivtsi — how Larisa Rohach’s family assets were formed

The family of the head of the Commercial Cassation Court, Larisa Rohach, owns a house of almost 191 sq. m in Zakarpattia, an apartment in Kyiv, two Toyota RAV4s in the past and a Volkswagen Tiguan worth more than 1,1 million UAH. A separate story is investments through the construction financing fund "Zhitlo-Kapital": the value of assets related to it in the declaration for 2025 exceeded 4,13 million UAH. And on a plot of land of 10,8 sotky in Onokivtsi, allocated for gardening, satellite images show construction taking place. StopCor looked into how the judge’s family accumulated real estate, who profited from the legal business, and what questions arose about Rohach’s court decisions.

On 19 August, NABU investigators and SAP prosecutors conducted searches at Larisa Rohach’s — head of the Commercial Cassation Court within the Supreme Court — premises. Journalists at Bihus.Info reported this citing sources at the DEJURE Foundation.

The investigative actions took place within Operation "Themis", which concerns an alleged scheme to seize others’ assets and expensive real estate. According to the investigation, former MP Maksym Mykytas and current parliamentarian Vadym Stolar may be involved in organizing this scheme. Among the possible mechanisms for obtaining the necessary court decisions, the investigation is considering bribery of judges.

From radio-equipment assembler to head of the Commercial Cassation Court: Larisa Rohach’s career

Larisa Rohach’s judicial career spans almost three decades. Before that, in 1985–1986 she worked as a radio-equipment assembler at the "Ersted" plant. In 1986 she enrolled in the Faculty of Law at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She received her law degree in 1991. Her professional path began in Zakarpattia: first she interned at the regional bar association, then worked as a lawyer, and from 1994 to 1997 she practiced as a private attorney.

In 1997 Rohach moved into the judiciary — to the Arbitration Court of Zakarpattia Region, which later became the Commercial Court of the region. In July 2002 she was appointed a judge for an indefinite term. The next step was the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine, where she worked from 2005.

After the judicial reform in 2017 Rohach became a judge of the Commercial Cassation Court within the Supreme Court and a member of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court. In 2023 she was elected head of the Commercial Cassation Court — a position she has held since.

Million-hryvnia income, investments in real estate and cash savings: what Larisa Rohach declared

The property history of Larisa Rohach’s family was formed long before her move to the Supreme Court. In the declaration for 2015, when she worked as a judge of the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine, real estate in Uzhhorod, Kyiv and Pryluky is listed. Two plots of land of 507 and 572 sq. m and a garden house of 72 sq. m were acquired by Rohach on 19 December 2007. The Kyiv apartment of 109 sq. m appeared in the declaration with an acquisition date of 22 December 2008: one third of the dwelling belonged to the judge herself, one third to her husband Viktor Morenets, and one third to their daughter Yulia.

The husband also owned a plot of land of 600 sq. m and half of a residential house of 67 sq. m in Pryluky, acquired in 2011.

The vehicle park consisted of two Toyota RAV4s — a 2009 model year owned by Ms. Rohach and a 2015 model year registered to her husband.

The declaration also shows a loan of 90 thousand dollars, taken out as far back as 2007 and secured by the garden house. During the reporting year the family paid 153 725 UAH toward the principal. At the same time, the family’s total income amounted to 535 666 UAH: 257 065 UAH of judicial salary for Rohach, 195 thousand UAH of entrepreneurial income of the husband from the law firm "Consilio Legal" and 83 601 UAH salary of the daughter at Ernst & Young. The family members separately declared 550 thousand UAH in cash savings.

A separate strand of the financial story is investing in real estate. In 2016 Rohach signed an agreement to participate in a construction financing fund. In 2017 her contribution to LLC "FC "Zhitlo-Kapital" amounted to 450 thousand UAH, and by 2018 the declared amount had risen to over 2,35 million UAH. In that same year the judge’s daughter Yulia Morenets declared renting an apartment of 70 sq. m in Germany.

In 2019 she declared an expenditure of 3,13 million UAH for participation in the construction financing fund. At that time the Kyiv apartment of 85 sq. m appeared in the declaration in the section for unfinished construction.

In 2020 the family purchased a Volkswagen Tiguan Limited Edition, 2020 model year, for 1,129 million UAH. The car was owned by the husband but was used jointly by the spouses. The declaration for that year also listed funds under the management of "Zhitlo-Kapital" totaling nearly 470 thousand UAH and a debt to that structure.

In 2021–2022 the property profile was supplemented by a summer house of 190,88 sq. m in Onokivtsi. At the same time the declared value of assets related to "Zhitlo-Kapital" grew: in 2021 the figure was over 3,77 million UAH, and in 2025 — already over 4,13 million UAH.

In 2025 the judge declared 300 thousand UAH, 5 thousand dollars and 10 thousand euros.

Separately, the declarations for 2022 and 2024 show charitable contributions to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine — over 1,66 million UAH and over 1,24 million UAH respectively.

By the way, on the plot of land of 0,108 ha (10,8 sotky) located in the village of Onokivtsi, Uzhhorod district, Zakarpattia region, cadastral number 2124884800:11:014:, satellite images show construction is underway.

However, according to its designated purpose, it is allocated for gardening.

Larisa Rohach: land disputes, integrity concerns and NABU searches

Public questions about Larisa Rohach concern not a single court decision but several areas of her activity: handling land disputes, possible interference in the automated distribution of cases, and the circumstances under which she obtained a leadership position in the Supreme Court.

One of the most concrete episodes remains the Kharkiv "cooperative scheme." According to the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center, a panel of judges chaired by Rohach in December 2016 overturned an appellate decision in a case about the free transfer by the city council of hundreds of hectares of land to cooperatives. The Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center reported that at the time the city council allegedly gave hundreds of hectares to shell cooperatives for free. A notable feature of this decision, highlighted by the publication, was the reasoning about the absence of evidence of protests, rallies or public hearings against the city council’s actions. This episode is significant not only because of the scale of the land issue but also because of the court’s approach to assessing the circumstances cited by the plaintiffs.

In 2017 the Public Integrity Council found Rohach not to meet the criteria of integrity and professional ethics during the competition to the Supreme Court, as reported by Among the accusations reported by the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center were suspicions of interference in the automated distribution of court cases and questionable decisions, in the view of public experts.

Later, on 19 December 2022, Rohach was elected head of the Commercial Cassation Court without an alternative candidate. This contrast between the negative conclusion of a public body and her subsequent appointment to a leadership position is one of the central circumstances of her public story.

"Telegraf" also cited other decisions that raised questions among the judge’s critics: regarding construction near Saint Sophia Cathedral, land for the estate of Yuriy Ivanyushchenko and cases in which, according to critics’ assessments, interests of the "Privat" group benefited.

Larisa Rohach’s story combines a long career in the judiciary, family investments in real estate worth millions of hryvnias, and high-profile land cases. The gardening-designated plot in Onokivtsi and the NABU and SAP searches within Operation "Themis" raise questions that require answers based on documents and investigation results. These circumstances demand proper scrutiny and transparent explanation.

To clarify the circumstances of this case, StopCor sent official requests to NABU

and NACP,

to obtain information about the progress of the investigation, as well as verification of the declared assets and possible violations in Larisa Rohach’s asset declarations. We are awaiting official responses from both bodies.

Recall that the StopCor team has already written about million-hryvnia gifts, an estate near Kyiv, “borrowed” cars and a rented apartment of judge Anatoliy Maidanevych, and about how a family business and longtime partners of Viktor Pylypyshyn lead to Kyiv land and million-hryvnia developments