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

The family of the head of the Commercial Cassation Court, Larysa Rohach, owns a house of almost 191 sq. m in Zakarpattia, an apartment in Kyiv, two Toyota RAV4 cars in the past, and a Volkswagen Tiguan worth over 1,1 million UAH. A separate story concerns investments through the construction financing fund “Zhitlo-Capital”: 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 is underway. How the judge’s family accumulated real estate, who earned money from the legal business, and what questions arose about Rohach’s court decisions — StopCor investigated.

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

The investigative actions took place as part of Operation “Themis,” which concerns an alleged scheme to seize others’ assets and expensive real estate. According to the investigation, former Member of Parliament Maksym Mykytas and current parliamentarian Vadym Stolar may be involved in organizing the scheme. Among the possible mechanisms for obtaining favorable court rulings, the inquiry is considering bribery of judges.

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

Larysa Rohach’s career in the judiciary has lasted almost three decades. Before that, in 1985–1986 she worked as a radio equipment assembler at the Ersted factory. In 1986 she enrolled in the law faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She received her law diploma 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 Oblast, which later became the Commercial Court of the oblast. In July 2002 she was appointed a judge for an indefinite term. The next stage 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 then.

Millions in income, real estate investments and cash savings: what Larysa Rohach declared

The property history of Larysa Rohach’s family 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, property was listed in Uzhhorod, Kyiv and Pryluky. Two land plots of 507 and 572 sq. m and a garden house of 72 sq. m were acquired by Rohach on 19 December 2007. A Kyiv apartment of 109 sq. m appeared in the declaration with the acquisition date 22 December 2008: one-third of the dwelling belonged to the judge herself, her husband Viktor Morenets, and their daughter Yuliia.

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

The vehicle fleet 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 showed a loan of 90 thousand dollars taken out in 2007 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 was 535 666 UAH: 257 065 UAH from Rohach’s judicial salary, 195 thousand UAH of entrepreneurial income from her husband’s legal company “Consilio Legal,” and 83 601 UAH from their daughter’s salary at Ernst & Young. Separately, family members declared 550 thousand UAH in cash savings.

A separate thread in the financial history 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-Capital’” was 450 thousand UAH, and by 2018 the declared amount had grown to more than 2,35 million UAH. In that same year the judge’s daughter Yuliia Morenets declared rental income from an apartment of 70 sq. m in Germany.

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

In 2020 the family purchased a Volkswagen Tiguan Limited Edition, model year 2020, for 1,129 million UAH. The car was owned by the husband but used jointly by the spouses. The declaration for that year also listed funds under the management of “Zhitlo-Capital” totaling nearly 470 thousand UAH and a debt owed 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-Capital” grew: in 2021 it 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 in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — over 1,66 million UAH and over 1,24 million UAH respectively.

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

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

Larysa Rohach: land disputes, integrity allegations and NABU searches

Public questions about Larysa Rohach concern not a single court decision but several areas of her activity: handling land disputes, possible interference in automated case distribution, 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 materials from the Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center, a panel of judges chaired by Rohach in December 2016 overturned an appellate decision in a case about free transfers 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 supposedly gave hundreds of hectares free of charge to sham cooperatives. A notable feature of that decision, which the publication highlighted, was the court’s 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 evaluating the circumstances cited by the plaintiffs.

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

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

“Telegraf” also cited other rulings that raised questions among the judge’s critics: regarding development near St. Sophia Cathedral, land under Yuriy Ivanyushchenko’s estate, and cases in which, critics assessed, interests tied to the “Privat” group benefited.

Larysa Rohach’s story combines a long judicial career, her family’s multimillion-hryvnia real estate investments, and high-profile land cases. The Onokivtsi plot, designated for gardening, and the NABU and SAP searches as part of Operation “Themis” raise questions that require answers based on documents and the investigation’s findings. These circumstances require proper verification and transparent explanation.

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

and NAPC,

to obtain information about the course of the investigation, as well as verification of declared assets and possible violations in Larysa 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 Anatolii Maydanyevych, and about how the family business and long-time partners of Viktor Pylypyshyn lead to Kyiv land and million-hryvnia developments