During the period from 2020 to 2023, the family of Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU), purchased real estate and cars worth more than 70 million hryvnias.
This includes a large estate with two plots of land near Kyiv, office space of 200 square meters in the capital, two crossovers, three apartments with parking spaces in prestigious residential complexes of Kyiv and four apartments in Uzhhorod.
The investigation conducted by "Schem" journalists revealed that most of this property was registered to the relatives of Kyrylenka's wife (parents and grandmother), and was acquired during the time when he headed the Donetsk regional administration, before he was transferred to the position of the head of the AMCU in Kyiv in 2023 year However, none of the relatives has a business, and the official income that could support such large purchases is not enough to carry them out, the investigation notes.
In a comment for "Scheme", Kyrylenko stated that the source of his family's wealth is the start-up capital formed in the 90s, when the grandmother of his future wife sold the shares of the Styrol plant in Horlivka, which she received as an employee of the plant. However, journalists could not find official confirmation of these operations.
Kyrylenka's relatives also could not document this version of the origin of the family property, claiming that "everything remained in occupied Horlivka."
In April 2020, when Pavlo Kyrylenko had already been the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration for almost 9 months, his father-in-law, Oleksandr Matienko, purchased a 25-acre plot of land and a 228-square-meter house in a cottage town in the Kyiv region. According to the received sales contract, the value of this property for Matienko was 4 million hryvnias. However, according to an archived advertisement for the sale of this house, published on one of the Internet portals, it cost more in 2020. Its price was 430,000 dollars (equivalent to 10 million hryvnias for that period). 
Oleksandr Matienko, commenting for journalists, claimed that he really bought the property much cheaper than the price indicated in the ad. "He (the seller - ed.) sold this property for 4-5 years. I think if he didn't sell, I wouldn't buy, right?" Matienko noted. 
In January 2021, Pavlo Kyrylenka's mother published photos of him and his children in this estate. In April 2021, Kyrylenko's father-in-law, Oleksandr Matienko, additionally purchased 25 acres of land in the same cottage town for 1.8 million hryvnias, according to the sales contract. Currently, the foundation of the future building can be seen on this territory. 
The journalists also found that the Kyrylenka family continued to expand their property even after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. In August 2022, Matienko acquired property rights to apartments in the prestigious residential complex "Residents Park" in Uzhhorod. At that time, Pavlo Kyrilenko already headed the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration, having moved to the east from Uzhhorod, where he headed the military prosecutor's office for two years.
According to the purchase and sale contracts available to "Scheme", Kyrylenka's father-in-law purchased property rights to apartments in a residential complex with areas of 90 and 74 square meters for 800 and 640 thousand hryvnias, respectively. According to journalists, at the time of purchase, the market prices for this real estate were significantly higher - 7 and 6 million hryvnias, respectively.
In April 2023, Kyrylenka's father-in-law additionally purchased property rights for another apartment in the Uzhhorod residential complex, with an area of 77 square meters, for almost 670,000 hryvnias. According to the real estate information resource, the market value of this apartment was almost 6 million hryvnias at that time.
Kyrylenka's mother-in-law, Nataliya Matienko, in the same period also acquired property rights to an apartment in the "Residents Park" complex with an area of 80 square meters, for the sum of over 670,000 hryvnias. The market value of the apartments at that time was approximately 6 million hryvnias. In addition to the apartments, in the period from 2022 to 2023, the Matienks became the owners of four parking spaces in the Uzhgorod residential complex, the total market value of which exceeds two and a half million hryvnias. 
So, the total market value of the property owned by the Matienks in Uzhgorod is 27 million hryvnias.
In March 2023, Kyrylenka's mother-in-law became the owner of two apartments in Kyiv, in the "Obolon Plaza" residential complex, each of which has an area of almost 90 square meters. The total value of this property, according to the sales contracts, is 9.5 million hryvnias. Payment for these apartments was made in 2021.
In the same month, Pavlo Kyrylenka's father-in-law purchased two parking spaces in the Obolon Plaza complex for a total amount, according to market prices, of 80,000 to 100,000 dollars.
According to data collected by journalists, in May 2023, the mother of Pavel Kyrylenka's wife, Nataliya Matienko, became the owner of an office space with an area of almost 200 square meters in the same metropolitan residential complex. She received this property as a gift from her mother, Albina Vinnikova. Vinnikova, who is the great-grandmother of Pavlo Kyrylenka's children, paid almost 12 million hryvnias for this premises in 2021, which is confirmed by the sales contract.
In addition, Pavel Kyrylenko's father-in-law owns a 2020 Volkswagen Tiguan, and his mother-in-law owns a luxury BMW X3 crossover, which, according to the established "Schemes", is driven by the wife of the head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, Alla Kyrylenko.
In a comment for "Scheme", Pavlo Kyrylenko stated that his wife's family had enough savings to purchase all this real estate.
"They had assets, including shares, certificates of the Styrol enterprise. And they were implemented depending on their price. Albina Vinnikova is my children's great-grandmother, she worked and implemented promotions," Kyrylenko said.
Kyrylenka's mother-in-law, Nataliya Matienko, said that her parents sold shares in the plant in 1997 and earned $40,000 from it.
"Money worked constantly. They have never been idle," Matienko added.
She also noted that she received part of the money from a relative in Russia who died.
Kyrylenko's father-in-law, Oleksandr Matienko, in a comment for "Scheme", stated that he had worked all his life, so he could save for this property.
"Couldn't I make money for 40 years? I built, bought an apartment, repaired it, sold it. Moved to another, repaired and lived there. The woman's parents helped me, we have a big and friendly family, if people live like that, then it can only be applauded," said Matienko.
However, according to data from official registers of individuals and legal entities, Natalia Matienko never had her own business. She received only social benefits and a small amount from private enterprise in 2003, according to Schemes, accessed from official income databases. Her husband, Oleksandr Matienko, mostly worked in the traffic police, and for the period from 2005 to 2015, he received a salary of 223 thousand hryvnias. Both are currently retired.
Wife Alla Kyrilenko, according to her declarations, officially did not have enough funds to help her parents in the purchase of numerous real estate and cars. This also applies to the head of the Antimonopoly Committee, who, based on his salary and declared savings, could not provide such large acquisitions.
The grandmother of Kyrylenka's wife, 77-year-old Albina Vinnikova, received only 16 hryvnias from Privatbank in 2013 over the past twenty-five years. According to the tax office, from 2015 to 2017, she received social benefits in the amount of slightly more than one thousand hryvnias as an internally displaced person.
An attempt by journalists to find official confirmations of transactions with shares ended in failure. The State Property Fund provided only part of the archival data, and the National Depository had no information on the register of shareholders of the plant for those years.
Kyrylenka's relatives themselves had no opportunity to recall the details of the number and value of the plant's shares they owned. They only mentioned the amount of 40 thousand dollars, which, according to them, they received from the sale of shares. However, documentary evidence of this version was not provided.
"All this history remained in Horlivka. If it were otherwise, we would show you all these documents that were left there. All receipts, receipts and other things," said Nataliya Matienko.
Lawyers believe that the presence of significant property in the family of the head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine may be a sign of illegal enrichment, especially if this property does not correspond to the officially declared income.
"This can be an asset that is in the name of other persons, but was purchased with the funds or on behalf of the person who declares his income. Or it may be property in respect of which he reserves the right to dispose of, sell or determine the legal status. If the difference between legal income and these assets exceeds 8.5 million hryvnias (for 2022), this may be a sign of illegal enrichment, for which liability is provided in the form of imprisonment from 5 to 10 years with confiscation of property," explains the lawyer of the Center anti-corruption" Vadim Valko.
Pavlo Kyrylenko was appointed head of the Antimonopoly Committee in September 2023 at the suggestion of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi. From 2019 to autumn 2023, he headed the Donetsk region. He began his career as a prosecutor, working first in the Donetsk region, then in the General Prosecutor's Office in Kyiv, and later as a military prosecutor in Transcarpathia, heading the military prosecutor's office of the Uzhgorod garrison.
