In the period 2020-2023, the family of the head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, Pavlo Kyrylenka, purchased real estate and cars with a total value of over 70 million hryvnias. In particular, a large mansion and two plots of land near Kyiv, 200 square meters of office real estate in the capital, two crossovers, three apartments with parking spaces in elite residential complexes of Kyiv and four apartments in Uzhhorod. This is stated in the investigation of the Scheme project.
Journalists found out that this property, mostly issued to the relatives of Kyrylenko's wife (retired parents and grandmother), was acquired by the family during the period when he was the head of the Donetsk regional administration and before his transfer to Kyiv to the position of head of the AMCU in 2023 . At the same time, none of the relatives has a business, and the family's official income would not be enough to purchase all this valuable property.
In a comment to journalists, Kyrylenko stated that the source of wealth is the family's start-up capital, which was formed in the 90s, when his future wife's grandmother profitably sold the shares of the Styrol plant in Horlivka, which she received as an employee of the plant. Journalists could not find official confirmation of these operations.
Kyrylenka's relatives were also unable to provide documentary confirmation of this version of the origin of the family's wealth.
The investigation says that in 2020, Kyrylenko's father-in-law Oleksandr Matienko bought 25 acres of land and a house (228 square meters) near Kyiv. According to the sales contract, he paid approximately UAH 4 million for this. However, Schemes found an archival advertisement for the sale of this house - in 2020 it cost approximately 430 thousand dollars (10 million UAH at the exchange rate for 2020). In April 2021, Matienko bought another 25 acres in the same cottage town for UAH 1.8 million.
During the war, in August 2022, Kyrylenka's father-in-law bought property rights to apartments in an elite residential complex in Uzhgorod (90 and 74 square meters). According to the sales contract, Matienko paid 800 and 640 thousand hryvnias for these apartments. Journalists claim that the market prices were much higher - 7 and 6 million hryvnias. During this period, Matienko's wife also bought an apartment in an elite complex of Uzhhorod and four parking spaces.
Also, in 2023, Kyrylenka's mother-in-law became the owner of two elite apartments in Kyiv. It is about the Obolon Plaza residential complex. In a comment to journalists, Kyrylenko said that his wife's family has a lot of savings to buy this property.
"They had assets, in particular in the form of shares, certificates of the Styrol enterprise. And then they were realized depending on their price. Albina Vinnikova is the great-grandmother of my children, she worked and implemented the actions," he said.
In addition, the Schemes found an office space, luxury cars and other real estate in the family of the chairman of the AMCU. At the same time, neither Kyrylenko nor his wife, according to the declarations, had the funds to purchase real estate.
Pavlo Kyrylenko became the head of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Association of Ukraine in September 2023. Prior to that, he held the position of the head of Donetsk OVA. He replaced Olga Pishchanska in this position.
Kyrylenko headed the Donetsk State Administration from July 5, 2019 to September 5, 2023. Prior to that, he held the post of military prosecutor of the Uzhgorod Garrison of the Western Region of Ukraine.
