Daria Kushnir is the daughter of the ex-chairman of Kyivmiskbud Ihor Kushnir, at the end of 2023 she became a co-owner of the company registered in London. About why it will be difficult for Daria Kushnir to pass compliance and whether the British will confiscate the assets obtained through corruption in our journalistic investigation.
This is reported by the editors of the 360UA NEWS
Ihor Kushnir's daughter Daria, like many children of the Ukrainian elite, studies and lives in London. Dasha was a student at the University of Westminster in Great Britain, where the tuition fee is about $60,000 per year. And, in the best traditions of Ukrainian corrupt families, Daria does not live in a student dormitory, but in luxurious, even by London standards, apartments at Viaduct Gardens Street, Embassy Gardens Phase 2 Block E.
The Embassy Gardens residential complex, where Daria settled at the expense of Ukrainian corrupt official Ihor Kushnir, is a luxurious house overlooking the Thames, not far from the US Embassy. The price for apartments in an elite residential complex starts at 600,000 pounds. Daria Kushnir's residential address became known to journalists , thanks to the Cypriot registers, where Daria acts as the founder of ARMIKS DK ESTATE LTD. The amount of the contribution of 25-year-old Daria Kushnir to the statutory fund of the Cypriot company ARMIKS DK ESTATE LTD upon registration amounted to 457 thousand euros.
Through ARMIKS DK ESTATE LTD, Daria Kushnir is one of the final beneficiaries of the British Alliance 1903 LTD, registered in London. According to data from the British register, the company is also involved in real estate development. Interestingly, according to the British registers, Daria's partner in Alliance 1903 LTD is the well-known Kyiv developer Vladyslava Molchanov.
But let's return to the issue of Dasha Kushnir's compliance procedure. In Great Britain, there is a Criminal Finances Act, which significantly complicates the process of legalizing corruption proceeds. The law was developed and directed primarily against Russian oligarchs, but there are many cases of its application against people from other countries who cannot explain how they acquired such significant wealth.
The provisions of this law introduce the concept of "Unexplained wealth orders", i.e. property whose origin cannot be explained by those involved in the investigation. Law enforcement officers have the right to confiscate such property without a trial, "if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that any person owns assets that do not correspond to his known income." At the same time, the minimum amount of "unexplained wealth" that falls under the law is 50 thousand pounds. Not only estates and cars can be confiscated, but also in principle any expensive property, for example, diamonds, gold bullion or paintings.
In the context of this law, it is necessary to recall the story of the enrichment of the Kushnir family, which became known to the general public after the corruption schemes were exposed by Ukrainian journalists. What is telling is that Daria Kushnir is directly related to the same "family corruption schemes", irrefutable proof of which is the joint registered company with Vladyslava Movchanova.
Bihus.Info project released another investigation into corruption in "Kyivmiskbud" during the management of the utility enterprise by Igor Kushnir, who announced in December 2023 that he was leaving the post of chairman after 12 years of work . On February 9, Vasyl Oliynyk became the president of Kyivmiskbud. Earlier, an audit began in the company, on the instructions of the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klychko.
However, according to journalists, the change of management may be a formality, because in recent years, Oliynyk worked as a general contractor on the facilities of the Stolitsa Group company from the orbit of the well-known Kyiv developer Vladyslava Molchanova. Molchanova, in turn, is a longtime business partner of Igor Kushnir's family.
Kushnir was also , in which it was said that the land withdrawn by the company "Kyivmiskbud", 80% of which belongs to the territorial community of Kyiv, i.e. it is communal, in Kozyna, where there used to be a recreation center, was built by his relatives with luxurious cottages .
In 2021, the NSDC imposed sanctions against the company of the wife of the president of Kyivmiskbud, Olena Kushnir. Then Kushnir said that the sanctions were most likely imposed by mistake .
But journalists found the connection of her company Klodius Investments Limited, registered in the British Virgin Islands, with Medvedchuk's "gas pipe" .
