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Resignation after searches, billion-hryvnia contracts and a money-laundering investigation: what is known about Ruslan Oliynyk
In the photo — Ruslan Oliynyk and the resignation letter he wrote to leave his post as deputy minister of Restoration.
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Center "MEZHA".
It so “happened” that Oliynyk decided to leave the ministry just after searches were carried out in the case of embezzlement of budget funds for construction of protection for energy facilities in the Kyiv region.
Decided to leave to avoid suspicion? Note that this is a fairly common practice among high-ranking officials to avoid reputational risks for the authority.
After all, the searches relate to contracts concluded by the KOVA department precisely during the period when the administration was led by Mykola Kalashnyk (the current minister of Restoration) and Ruslan Oliynyk (until today the deputy minister of Restoration).
In fact, under the leadership of Kalashnyk and Oliynyk, KOVA in the period from March to July 2026 contracted directly for 1,7 billion UAH for construction of protection for energy facilities with companies in the orbit of Vladyslav Sokolov. In addition, his LLCs were suppliers of goods for KOVA departments for hundreds of millions of hryvnias.
Today searches took place at the contractor of Vladyslav Sokolov, who controls a number of LLCs. The protection was not built; instead, as can be seen from the published photos — portraits of Sokolov in gilded frames, interiors in a pshonka-style, crocodiles in the penthouse aquarium, a swimming pool, and also a Rolls-Royce in the garage.
Oliynyk and Sokolov are linked not only by the contracts they signed. They are both from the city of Dnipro, where Oliynyk also once did business. On social media people like the photos; the only like under Sokolov’s photo is from the former deputy minister Oliynyk himself.
For the former deputy minister of Restoration, Oliynyk, this may be far from his first criminal case. He was already wanted for 2 years for laundering money through conversion centers.
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