Holyk Yuriy Yuriyovych

“Ideologist of the Great Construction” and architect of the road cartel

Yuriy Holyk is a native of Luhansk, advisor to Prime Minister Honcharuk (2019–2020), advisor to the head of Ukravtodor Kubrakov, and advisor to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Reznichenko. Officially without a position, but in fact the chief PR officer and “ideologist” of the “Great Construction.” Together with Kubrakov, Holyk implemented “discriminatory adjustments” in Ukravtodor’s tender documentation, thanks to which three-quarters of contracts were almost automatically awarded to a cartel from the National Association of Road Builders of Ukraine. The margin on the largest tenders for the cartel reached 40%. In October 2023, Bihus.Info discovered that Holyk created a “closed club” of road companies that rigged all the largest tenders among themselves. Despite the lack of an official position in the Presidential Office, Holyk regularly visited Bankova Street — his car passed through checkpoints without stopping.

National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) searches, leak of investigation materials, and fleeing abroad

In December 2022 and May 2023, NABU conducted searches at Holyk’s properties — at his cottage in the Konik residential complex in Kyiv, two mobile phones were seized. The phones contained correspondence with the contractor Budinvest company, which received over 4 billion UAH from the budget, including under the “Great Construction.” In June 2024, Bihus.Info published an investigation revealing that Holyk received confidential information from NABU through an intermediary — advisor to the Presidential Office Heorhiy Birkadze. NABU Director Kryvonos opened a pre-trial investigation on the leak. After a NABU search of his car in 2024, Holyk left Ukraine under the “Shlyakh” system as a “driver-volunteer” of the charitable foundation “Songs Born in ATO.”