People's Deputy Artem Kunayev has been receiving compensation for housing rent from the state budget for many years, despite the fact that he actually lives in an apartment connected to his own family. Formally, the property has been resold to third parties, but the rent — more than 20 thousand hryvnias per month — goes to LLC "YUKUN", which has a direct connection to the parliamentarian's family.
The scheme looks like classic self-financing: the lease agreement is drawn up in such a way as to formally not raise any questions, but in fact the money from state compensation ends up in a business controlled by Kunayev's relatives.
LLC "YUKUN" also appears in a larger story. In recent years, the company has received more than 900 million hryvnias from JSC "MOTOR SICH" - an enterprise with which Kunaev has long-standing ties as a former official and through the structures of his father Yuri. At the same time, the business activity of "YUKUN" is reduced to working with a single counterparty, which indicates the role of the company as a conduit for the withdrawal of funds, in particular within the framework of the state program "Great Construction".
What is particularly worrying is that cooperation with MOTOR SICH continued after the full-scale invasion began, even though the company was linked to the transfer of military technology to Russia. Its long-time manager, Vyacheslav Boguslaev, is now a defendant in a case of aiding and abetting terrorism, but this has not stopped Kunaev's business.
Despite all these facts, the MP declares millions in cash, luxury cars, collector's watches and real estate. Some of the assets, including a parking space in the prestigious residential complex "Boulevard Fontanov", are registered in his mother's name. At the same time, Kunayev, as a member of the budget committee, has influence on the distribution of state funds - and continues to direct new financial flows through his own connections.
There is currently no investigation by law enforcement into these schemes, which only reinforces the question of whether anti-corruption mechanisms work in Ukraine when it comes to influential politicians.
