Golyk’s Schemes in Dnipropetrovsk Region: Tenders for the ODA and Cars for Officials

Businessman Yuriy Golyk, who for a long time consulted on the “Great Construction” project, provided cars to people accused in criminal cases concerning embezzlement of funds in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

It turned out that the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentyn Reznichenko, and his lover Yana Khlanta used property belonging to Golyk’s company. The Dnipropetrovsk ODA paid 1,5 billion hryvnias to the firm Budinvest Engineering, which is half-owned by the governor’s girlfriend and by a manager for the Dubynskyi brothers—whom the FBI is currently searching for over financial schemes in the United States.

Golyk also flew abroad together with Khlanta and Reznichenko. Their joint trip to Munich on 5-6 October 2021 is known (it was at that time that a Ukrainian court ordered the Antimonopoly Committee to consider a complaint about Ukravtodor protecting a cartel of road builders, but the AMCU did nothing). Golyk flew separately with Reznichenko, and separately with Khlanta. But on the same dates he was in Vienna with Pavlo Chukhno—the same manager of the Dubynskyi brothers who owns the other half of Budinvest Engineering.

The historical connection between Golyk and Reznichenko is more or less known. Reznichenko was one of the top managers of Boris Lozhkin’s Ukrainian Media Holding, and Golyk handled advertising for UMH in Luhansk region. When Lozhkin, under Poroshenko, headed the Presidential Administration, Reznichenko was first appointed head of the Zaporizhzhia ODA and then of the Dnipropetrovsk ODA. Golyk accompanied Reznichenko both times as an external advisor who does not receive a salary from the state budget and is not required to file official income declarations. In 2019, Zelensky initially removed Reznichenko, but Golyk managed to return to the center of decision-making, became a consultant for the “Great Construction,” and Reznichenko was returned to the Dnipropetrovsk ODA. Along with him, Budinvest Engineering and its girlfriend returned to the state money flows.

This trio’s relationship is reflected in financial matters as well. With the help of sources in the tax service, police, and state registers, the following was established. In one of the obtained videos, Yana Khlanta is shown arriving at the underground parking of the Creative State of Dnipro business center. Until recently, one of the co-owners of that business center was Yuriy Golyk. The office there is rented by the firm Sevent Consulting Group, which belongs to Reznichenko himself (last year the rent was at the level of 160 thousand hryvnias per month).

Sevent Consulting Group receives money from several firms for audit and legal services. Among them is PJSC Zaporizhzhia Quarry Management, where co-owner is Olena Chukhno. She is the wife of the co-owner of Budinvest Engineering, Pavlo Chukhno. Thus, the governor’s own firm Sevent Consulting Group in 2021 received 12 million hryvnias from a company connected to Budinvest, to which the governor’s subordinates transferred almost 8 billion hryvnias.

It is visible that the governor’s girlfriend arrived in a luxurious Porsche Panamera with plate number AE6054RN. It turned out that this same car is also used by Reznichenko himself. The Boryspil patrol police last year fined Reznichenko twice for speeding outside Kyiv, where he also owns real estate.

The Porsche Panamera itself belongs to the advertising agency Programmatic Media Group LLC. This is a real firm with an office in a business center on Stolychne Highway, which last year purchased a number of expensive cars:

Porsche Panamera 97A for 4,84 million hryvnias

Mercedes-AMG G 63 for 7 million hryvnias

Mercedes-Benz V-Class V 300 d extralong for 2,85 million hryvnias

Toyota Land Cruiser 3.346L Wagon A/T for 2,48 million hryvnias

BMW X7 xDrive 30d/ G07 for 3,27 million hryvnias

And the largest advertising partner of this firm was Modern Media Technologies LLC, to which Programmatic ordered placement of some materials on the internet for 3 million hryvnias. The connection between these firms is evidenced by the fact that in 2017-2018 years the founder of both companies was one Vladimir Stepanovych Pakholiuk. Then Programmatic began a change of owners and directors (those involved include Hryhoriev, Bachkov, Bolsheshapova, Litovchenko). Modern Media Technologies acquired a real beneficiary—Yuriy Golyk. The same consultant for the “Great Construction,” co-owner of several firms, including Creative Country.

Creative Country until recently was half-owned by Iliya Koenigstein and Yuriy Golyk. It developed a number of office buildings in Ukraine. As already mentioned, Valentyn Reznichenko rents an office in Creative State of Dnipro. And in the Kyiv coworking Creative State Arsenal in November 2021, Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference spoke about the successful success of the “Great Construction.”