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The Anti-Corruption Center (ACC) found that Dmytro Kovalenko, who has interests in the gas business, appears in a case concerning the possible concealment of the true ownership of businesses of SBU officer Artem Shylo.
This emerges from an analysis of data on companies that hold special permits to exploit mineral resources, the Anti-Corruption Center reports.
According to the state register of special permits for the use of mineral resources and the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Kovalenko is the ultimate beneficial owner of LLC “Soyuz-Budresursy.” The company holds special permit No. 6458 for the use of the oil- and gas-bearing resources of the Yarmakyivske field in Poltava region.
Kovalenko is also the ultimate beneficial owner of LLC “Navigator Mainytske.” The company holds special permit No. 4769 for the use of the oil and gas deposits of the Mainyzke field in the Lviv region.
After the Maidan, Kovalenko entered the extraction business as the “ultimate beneficial owner of the Adelon group of companies” and as a “leading international coal trader.”
According to media reports, Dmytro Kovalenko was arrested in March 2026 in Uzhhorod by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). The website “Sudova Vlada” and the Unified State Register of Court Decisions indicate that the arrest occurred within criminal proceedings No. 52025000000000074.
According to investigators, a person who served from August 2022 to March 2024 at the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) as head of Main Directorate “I” for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities was the informal ultimate beneficial owner of agribusinesses LLC “Agrarian Elevator Company,” LLC “Sibkor Pryluky,” and LLC “Grain Terminal Ltd.” That person is said to have invested 5,8 million US dollars of personal funds into this business.
Investigators say the money came from dubious sources. The court register explicitly names the surname Shylo. This apparently refers to former Presidential Office advisor and former SBU officer Artem Shylo.
The ultimate beneficial owner of all the above companies is Danyil Kovalenko, the son of Dmytro Kovalenko. In the meantime, however, all three firms have changed their names: LLC “Agrarian Elevator Company” now operates as LLC “Granova Myrhorod,” LLC “Grain Terminal LTD” was renamed LLC “Granova Krasnopavlivka,” and LLC “Sibkor Pryluky” is now LLC “Granova Pryluky.”
Kovalenko’s business partner at LLC “Soyuz-Budresursy” is Hanna Probylova, the daughter of Serhiy Probylov. He is a long-time business partner of former member of parliament Vitaliy Danilov of the Batkivshchyna party and served as Danilov’s parliamentary aide from 2012 to 2014 during the seventh convocation.
Author: Alina Stryzhak
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