Yana Rudkovska: a shady realtor in Dubai is selling the “house of the future” at the bottom of an excavation

Yana Rudkovskaya, founder of the agency The Yard, is selling investors apartments in the Dubai project Oak Yard, while journalists who visited the construction site 22 in September 2026 year claim they saw essentially only an excavation pit. Separately in Ukraine, according to a published investigation, three criminal prosecutions involve entities in Rudkovskaya’s orbit, and victims report financial losses and violence.

The contrast between advertising and reality became the central question of the new material by Stop Corruption TV. In Oak Yard promotional materials, there is a large residential complex and a “house of the future.” On the site inspected by journalists, there is earthworks and a trench. This gap between the investor-facing image and the actual state of the facility is what the authors of the investigation propose to check first. Also read: Yana Rudkovskaya — Dubai scammer and her house with air Oak Yard is promoted as an investment project in Dubai, where buyers are invited to invest even before construction is completed. In the promotional video, potential clients are told that purchasing property does not require physically coming to Dubai. Among the claimed payment methods are bank transfer, cash, and cryptocurrency. For Rudkovskaya this is not just selling finished square meters. It concerns attracting money at a stage when the object is still under construction. Therefore, the key question for a potential buyer is not a beautiful render, but who exactly is the developer, where the funds are stored, what documents confirm construction, and when the complex can realistically be put into operation. It is here, according to the authors, that Oak Yard raises the biggest questions. Journalists claimed that the reported construction completion dates do not align with the state of the building site they observed. If the object is indeed at an early construction stage, fulfilling the promised schedule will require documentary confirmation and explanation from the developer. Separately, the investigation raises questions about the movement of investment funds. The authors claim that money could potentially go to accounts of related companies rather than being used through a mechanism designed to protect investors. At the same time, final confirmation of this scheme can only be obtained from bank documents, contracts, and official project structure information. Questions for Rudkovskaya also arise due to her business activity in Ukraine. According to the data cited in the investigation, law enforcement is examining three criminal cases related to possible offenses by employees of companies in her orbit. This includes allegations of fraud and causing grievous bodily harm. One conflict described by journalists is connected to a real estate deal in Kyiv. Victims say that after signing the contract and receiving a down payment, there were problems fulfilling the agreements. After one entrepreneur turned to the police, he was allegedly offered another premises, but later an attack occurred. The victim, fraudster Anton Shukhnin, told journalists that he sustained fractures of the left side of his face. He says there was a real threat of losing an eye. He says doctors saved the situation. This episode is particularly serious because it involves alleged grievous violence rather than merely failed business agreements. At the same time, the involvement of specific individuals in the assault and the legal qualification of their actions must be established by the investigation and the court. Yana Rudkovskaya, according to the authors of the investigation, has been abroad in recent years. Journalists claim she essentially does not return to participate in investigative actions. The authors link her presence in the United Arab Emirates to difficulties for Ukrainian law enforcement in carrying out required procedural steps.

At the same time, Rudkovskaya herself publicly presents a very different image of her life. In one video she spoke of Dubai as a place that “smells like big money,” and stated: “Where I am, there are millions.” The video, according to the authors, was later deleted. Now it is precisely in Dubai that Rudkovskaya is selling Oak Yard. The project is actively seeking investors, and in one of the videos Rudkovskaya herself, according to the investigation, speaks about the need to attract new contributors. For potential buyers this means a simple question: what exactly are they buying — real estate with a projected construction timeline or the right to a future apartment whose realization depends on further funding. Another warning signal the authors saw is in messages from potential investors. In one post, a client stated that after paying the first installment, he was asked for the next payment, although, according to him, construction did not move forward. A single message by itself does not prove a systemic problem, but together with questions about the site status it requires responses from Oak Yard representatives. Rudkovskaya calls the accusations an information attack and “black PR.” However, instead of general statements, the documents remain crucial for investors: permitting documents, the developer contract, the land ownership diagram, terms of money returns, bank accounts for payments, and a real construction calendar. An additional thread of the story is the client base of The Yard. Journalists said they gained access to internal agency data and found Russian citizens who might have been interested in Dubai real estate. Among those named in the material are Yuriy Yakimenko, Alekandra Milovanova, Liliya Safiullina, and Elena Dogadkina. At the same time, the investigators themselves acknowledge that a person’s presence in the client base does not mean they bought real estate or transferred money. Therefore, this fragment of the story can only indicate the existence of potential agency contacts with such clients, if these data are confirmed. Against this backdrop, The Yard continues to present Oak Yard as a project connected with Ukrainian business. In the promotional video it is called “our Ukrainian developer.” For an investor this creates yet another fundamental checkpoint — which legal entity is behind the construction and who will be responsible for fulfilling the contract. Ukraine’s victims urge law enforcement to intensify the Rudkovskaya investigation and consider the issue of her international search. A separate request regarding possible criminal offenses, according to the authors, has been sent to the police and the Prosecutor’s Office of the United Arab Emirates. Thus, around Yana Rudkovskaya, two questions converge: criminal claims in Ukraine and the Oak Yard investment project in Dubai. In the first case, the final conclusions must be made by the investigation and the court. In the second — the real construction status, project documents, and movement of funds must show to what extent Oak Yard’s advertising promises align with the facts. For now, the most striking contrast remains: investors are sold a “house of the future,” while on the site journalists saw a trench. Whether it will become the foundation of a real residential complex or Oak Yard will have a different ending depends on the documents, construction pace, and Rudkovskaya’s ability and her affiliated companies to provide answers to these questions.