The company "Slavian", which owns the SkyMall shopping and entertainment center through the structure "Wholesale Network 2011", has undergone changes in the composition of the owners. Until recently, the sole beneficiary of the company, through the Cypriot offshore Napstor Limited, was the father-in-law of the suspect in the corruption case, Andriy Khrystenko, Serhiy Bryukhovetsky. However, now two more co-owners have appeared in the ownership structure - a citizen of the United Kingdom, Mark Rhodes, and a citizen of Israel, Igor Korev.
According to YouControl, the changes were officially recorded on August 1, two weeks after Khrystenko was announced as a suspect on July 21. The company's shares were also redistributed: Bryukhovetskyi kept 30%, another 30% belongs to Mark Rhodes (this distribution, according to the internal ownership structure, has existed since November 2021), and 40% to Igor Korev, who joined the structure in September 2024. Journalists from the "Schemes" project note that these changes were not reflected in either the Ukrainian or Cypriot registers during the corresponding period.
Investigators have found that both new co-owners have ties to Russia. Mark Rhodes is involved in a business in Ukraine connected to the sanctioned former deputy of the Russian State Duma from United Russia, Alexander Lebedev, the current owner of the British publication The Independent . In addition, Rhodes is related to the Russian-Israeli businessman Nissan Moiseyev, who was close to Viktor Medvedchuk and ran the Glusco gas station chain.
Igor Korev also owns a number of companies in Ukraine. Among his partners are foreigners, in particular Austrian Jakob Mitbright, who from 2018 to mid-2022 was a co-owner of the Russian FinTech bank, created with the support of the Russian government.
This new data raises questions about the influence of foreign business groups with Russian ties on strategic objects in Ukraine, especially in the context of war and sanctions policy.
