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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 real ownership of businesses belonging to SBU officer Artem Shylo.
This emerges from an analysis of data on companies that hold special permits for the use of 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 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 Yarmakiwskye field in Poltava region.
Kovalenko is also the beneficial owner of LLC Navigator Mainytske. The company holds special permit No. 4769 for the use of the oil and gas reserves of the Mainyzke field in Lviv region.
After the Maidan, Kovalenko entered the extraction business as the “beneficial owner of the Adelon corporate group” and a “leading international coal trader.”
According to media reports, Dmytro Kovalenko was detained in Uzhhorod in March 2026 by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). The Sudova Vlada website and the Unified State Register of Court Decisions indicate that the detention took place in connection with criminal proceeding No. 52025000000000074.
According to the 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 beneficial owner of the agricultural companies 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 their own funds into this business.
Investigators say the money came from dubious sources. The surname Shylo is explicitly mentioned in the court register. This apparently refers to the former Presidential Office adviser and ex-SBU officer Artem Shylo.
The beneficial owner of all the above companies is Danyil Kovalenko, the son of Dmytro Kovalenko. In the meantime, 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 MP Vitaliy Danilov of the Batkivshchyna party and served as Danilov’s parliamentary assistant from 2012 to 2014 during the seventh convocation.
Author: Alina Stryzhak
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