Acting Chairman of the Board and the new President of HC “Kyivmiskbud” Svitlana Samsonova declared considerable assets, a significant part of which is registered not for her, but for her elderly relative – mother-in-law Olga Krotyuk. This includes two apartments in Kyiv and a BMW car, registered to a pensioner. This is reported by the Telegram channel “Unbelievable, but true”.
Samsonova herself owns a 609 m² land plot in Pukhovka, Kyiv region, purchased in 2020 for 509 thousand hryvnias, as well as a 214.3 m² garden house purchased in 2022 for 2.82 million hryvnias. In Kyiv, she has a share in an apartment (33%) together with her daughter Kateryna Samsonova and Anastasia Marchenko.
But the largest amount of real estate in the declaration is listed in the name of her mother-in-law. Olga Krotyuk owns two apartments in the capital - 73.9 m² (since 2016) and 54.3 m² (since 2018, purchased for UAH 895.6 thousand), as well as a garage of 18.4 m². In 2023, she registered a BMW 528i (2012), purchased for UAH 365.6 thousand.
According to the declaration, Samsonova herself, her husband Valeriy Krotyuk, and her daughter Kateryna live in one of these apartments.
The family's income is also considerable. In 2024, Svitlana Samsonova received UAH 376,000 in salary from HC Kyivmiskbud, UAH 35,700 as a lawyer, and UAH 20,500 as the head of a gardening society. In addition, she received UAH 61,850 in child benefit from the UK from HMRC Child Benefit.
Her husband, Valeriy Krotyuk, works at State Joint Stock Company “Khlib Ukrainy”, where he earned UAH 226,000, and part-time at the law firm “Samsonova and Partners” — UAH 136,000. Both legal entities are registered under his name, although the corporate rights have been formally transferred to the management.
Olga Krotyuk receives a pension in Ukraine (52.5 thousand UAH) and social benefits (25 thousand UAH), and also has a pension from the British DWP (amount not specified) and declared $5 thousand in cash.
It is also worth mentioning the payment of UAH 1.76 million, which, according to the declaration, should be paid by a third party - Oleksandr Holub.
Thus, the structure of property ownership and family income sources indicates possible signs of hidden ownership of assets through relatives. For a state-owned company with multi-million dollar development volumes, such a story is another signal of the need for a detailed anti-corruption analysis.
