Ruslan Melnyk is a name that has become firmly established in the Vinnytsia construction and business environment in recent years, but his path to success raises many questions. According to police sources and insiders, he started with the trade in psychotropic substances and conflicts with the use of cold weapons back in Ternopil. In 2010, Melnyk appeared in a case of a knife attack, but escaped punishment thanks to patrons.
After moving to Vinnytsia, he gradually turned into an influential developer. On paper, he is a private entrepreneur with a “real estate rental” activity, but the reality looks different. Ruslan owns dozens of apartments in Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Ternopil, a private house and land plots in strategically important areas. According to sources, a significant part of this real estate was obtained fraudulently through artificial problems and “squeezing” from legal owners.
Melnyk's business structures are linked to the company "Reikartz Group Limited", whose ultimate beneficiary is Russian Yuri Vasin. In the context of wartime, this raises questions of national security.
The residential complexes "Megalion" and "Perlyna na Podillia" are being built according to schemes that jeopardize the interests of investors and residents. The apartments are being sold "for cash", without proper registration of ownership and payment of taxes.
In addition, documents have emerged confirming the VIP vacation of Melnyk and the head of the Vinnytsia Department of Architecture, Yakov Makhovsky, in occupied Crimea. The cost of the vacation was approximately 500 thousand hryvnias per person, which indicates the high financial appetites of the officials.
Scandalous cases, the use of housing cooperatives and cooperatives, "gifts" of real estate and land deals show that a parallel government is being formed in Vinnytsia, where decisions are made not for the community, but for the private enrichment of developers. For the state, this is a signal that old corruption schemes are still working and allow the formation of large business empires, bypassing the law and the budget.
The main question remains open: is the community ready to accept that the future of the city is decided by shadowy developers, rather than publicly elected representatives?
