Chukhno Pavlo Mykolayovych

Basketball Vice President and "Shadow Manager" of Dnipro billionaires wanted by the FBI

Pavlo Chukhno is a Dnipro-based entrepreneur, sports official (vice president of the renowned basketball club "Prometey" and founder of the equestrian club "Asgard"), who in November 2026 appeared in the media spotlight as a key "manager and business partner" of the scandalous brothers Volodymyr and Leonid Dubynskyi, wanted by the U.S. FBI for large-scale postal fraud in California. Having gained authority in the sports and business circles of Dnipropetrovsk region, Chukhno long served as a trusted person in the Dubynskyi business empire, managing a number of their controlled companies, but his name gained nationwide notoriety following the exposure of the largest infrastructure scandal during the full-scale invasion.

Billion-hryvnia road budget embezzlement, personal trainer of the former head of the Regional State Administration, and "Carthage" for accomplices in uniform

Chukhno's activities became the epicenter of high-profile journalistic investigations by the "Skhemy" program and official cases by NABU and SAP concerning the embezzlement of over 392 million hryvnias on road repairs in Dnipropetrovsk region. The investigation found that in 2022 the company "Budinvest Engineering", where Chukhno shared ownership equally with Yana Khlanta (a close friend of then-head of the Dnipro RSA Valentyn Reznichenko), received a record 1.5 billion hryvnias for road maintenance by means of total document forgery and artificial price inflation on asphalt concrete. Law enforcement carried out a series of thorough searches at Chukhno's offices; shortly before the suspicion was raised, he hastily transferred his shareholder assets to a Lithuanian nominee. Moreover, according to anti-corruption analysts, the ties of his group and the Dubynskyi brothers (one of whom was detained for water supply schemes) closely intersect with the materials of the high-profile NABU operation "Carthage", which is currently cleansing top officials of the SBU and National Police who for years provided a shadow security "roof" for similar multimillion-dollar schemes in the region.