The house with an area of 168 sq. m at the address of Akademika Glushkova Ave., 1, letter 65 (Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv) is a small object, but a very revealing story. It clearly shows how the capital's privatization "bypassing the auction" works at the expense of "inherent improvements": the tenant first "improves" the communal property, then credits the cost of these works to himself as a price reduction, and then quickly resells the asset to "his own". At the end, the community loses - even if "only" by hundreds of thousands, but the mechanics are the same as in the stories by tens of millions. writes .
From rental to off-auction buyout
In May 2018, the Department of Communal Property of the Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv Housing and Special Exploitation Enterprise leased the building to the Charitable Foundation "Historical Heritage Preservation Fund" (hereinafter referred to as the "FHIS"; in the documents also referred to as the "Charitable Foundation "Historical Heritage Preservation Fund").
In April-May 2020, the tenant receives the Department's consent for "essential improvements." This is followed by two repair contracts:
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05/18/2020 — general contracting agreement with LLC "Scientific and Production Enterprise "Ukrstroy" for UAH 974.5 thousand;
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08/04/2020 — overhaul contract with Markem Group LLC for UAH 430.2 thousand.
In total, there are ≈1.405 million UAH of "improvements", which will later become a "discount" upon redemption.
On October 30, 2020, the Kyiv City State Administration issues an order on privatization (No. 86/1-PR), and in November, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "FZIS" reports that the improvements "raised the market value by 25%" — the key to the redemption procedure without an open auction.
Next is an independent appraisal from LLC "Evaluation Company "Misto" (12/24/2021): "market" value - 3.9 million UAH (including VAT), where the community's share is 2.3 million UAH, and the tenant's share (the same "improvements") is ≈1.0 million UAH.
10/12/2022 The Department and the “FZIS” BO sign a purchase and sale agreement: the community’s share in the final settlement is already 2.7 million UAH including VAT, the tenant’s share has increased to ≈1.2 million UAH. 12/21/2022 the building is resold to “Parkpoint” LLC.
After the inspections began, the police and the expert came up with a different figure: the real cost of "inherent improvements" was UAH 802.2 thousand (including VAT). Hence the community's losses were UAH 333.5 thousand (excluding VAT): in fact, the tenant was overpaid for the "improvements" at the city's expense, and this allowed the building to be bought out cheaper and "outside the auction."
There are already two suspicions in the criminal proceedings:
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Olga Gichak/Gicek (in different documents - both transliterations), a former employee of LLC "Evaluation Company "Misto". She is accused of not properly identifying "improvements" during an independent appraisal and of providing false information (suspicion of 05.07.2024 in case No. 12024100090001276, Articles Part 3 of Article 358 and Part 3 of Article 365-2 of the Criminal Code - forgery and abuse of the appraiser's powers).
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Lyudmila Kovalevska (maiden name - Tyzhnenko), a deputy of the Kyiv City Council (European Solidarity/EU faction), former head and co-founder of the FZIS BO. The investigation believes that it was she who organized the fraudulent seizure of property and signed the documents that allowed the privatization of the facility at an understated price (suspicion from 07/24/2025 in case No. 12024100090002229, articles Part 3 of Article 190 - fraud under martial law, and Part 1 of Article 366 - official forgery).
On 08/11/2025, the court (Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv) chose a preventive measure for her - personal commitment until 09/24/2025. The investigation's request for a bail of UAH 333.5 thousand was rejected; The applications of people's deputies and deputies of the Kyiv City Council for bail were also not accepted.
These events were already included as a separate first "container" in proceedings No. 42023102090000175 dated September 14, 2023 (there, 602.6 thousand UAH of possible losses were recorded; a later examination specified the amount to 333.5 thousand).
Who's who: the fund, appraisers, buyer and the "family" of business connections
BO "CF "Fund for the Preservation of Historical Heritage" (BO "FZIS").
Registered in February 2017. Statutory roles in different periods:
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current director — Yaroslav Pitko;
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founder/beneficiary — Oleksiy Gusakov (Kharkiv);
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Lyudmila Kovalevska — manager and co-founder 09.2020–01.2023;
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Olga Chaika (deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the "EU") — co-founder 12.2021–01.2023.
LLC "Evaluation Company "Misto" - registered in 2009. Head and beneficiary - Serhiy Gnedyuk. Olga Gichak/Gicek - former employee (now director of PE "Strong-L", profile - property valuation).
Parkpoint LLC is the company to which the building was transferred on 12/21/2022.
Structure: co-founders — Anna Kramarenko, Oleksandr Poshtaryuk, BO "FZIS"; director — Vitaliy Rokochyi. Analytical systems attribute Parkpoint to the so-called "Poshtaryuk family group" (about 15 companies in real estate, construction, financial services, trade, energy). Key people — Vasyl Poshtaryuk (former deputy head of the Borodchansk RDA of Ivano-Frankivsk region) and his sons Oleksandr and Andriy.
Lyudmila Kovalevska is a long-time associate of Volodymyr Prokopiv (former secretary of the Kyiv City Council, currently deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration). She was his advisor in 2016, and entered the Kyiv City Council in district No. 1 (Holosiyivskyi district) and as No. 7 on the "EU" list.
Oleksandr Poshtaryuk is a co-founder of the charitable organization "Vira Prokopiv Charitable Foundation" (Vira is Volodymyr Prokopiv's wife). Kovalevska's declaration for 2020 records her family's right to reside in an apartment owned by Oleksandr Poshtaryuk.
The Prokopiv family has had business connections with the Poshtaryuks for many years: Vira Prokopiv is the co-owner of "Afeny" LLC, where Oleksandr Poshtaryuk was the director at one time; the same Poshtaryuk in 2016 was a short-term co-founder of "VP Service" LLC, which later passed to Andriy Shturmay, Volodymyr Prokopiv's father-in-law.
In 2020, after the elections, it emerged in the public space that Lyudmila Kovalevska was once an activist of United Russia. She did not deny this, but stated that she was last in the Russian Federation in 2013, and since 2014 she has severed ties and supports Ukraine. Currently, Kovalevska is the executive director of Levstar LLC (authorized capital of UAH 136.3 million; main KVED is the purchase/sale of real estate). She calls the suspicion in the Glushkov case groundless, and the examination conducted with violations.
Systemic background — Department of Communal Property of the Kyiv City State Administration under the leadership of Andriy Hudzys (since 05.11.2014, remains in office). His deputies Yuriy Plotnikov and Oleg Shmulyar also appear in various proceedings. A line of high-profile episodes:
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Tennis courts on Povitroflotsky Avenue — preliminary estimates of losses of ≈47 million UAH;
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Cinema "Kyiv" (19 Velyka Vasylkivska St.) - stoppage of rent accrual, ≈22.3 million UAH in arrears;
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"Truba" - a covered crossing near the railway station, privatization for "improvements" in favor of "Parus-Realty" LLC (linked in the media to the Suprunenko brothers) - over 63 million UAH in losses according to the investigation.
Separately, the police are investigating the Department's contracts for the municipal real estate accounting software module (2017–2023), where some of the work was duplicated, and the "free" website was developed "for money." The amount of potential losses is still being specified.
The political roof of the property block is currently Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Vladyslav Andronov (a Kyiv City Council member from UDAR). Volodymyr Prokopiv himself has been periodically at the center of scandals since the fall of 2024: from journalistic investigations about family real estate to the suspicion of the SBU/National Police in April 2025 regarding "evasive" schemes for traveling abroad under the guise of transporting a humanitarian worker (Prokopiv calls this political pressure).
Legal status of the "Glushkov case"
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Olga Gichak/Gicek: suspicion from 07/05/2024, part 3 of article 358 of the Criminal Code (forgery), part 3 of article 365-2 of the Criminal Code (abuse of an appraiser).
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Lyudmila Kovalevska: suspicion from 07/24/2025, part 3 of article 190 of the Criminal Code (fraud under martial law), part 1 of article 366 of the Criminal Code (official forgery); preventive measure - personal obligation until 09/24/2025.
The investigation is ongoing. Both suspects deny the charges.
The story is important for the Kyiv community, because here is a full set of indicators: a tenant-"benefactor", "paper" improvements, "correct" valuation, quick resale to one's business network and a deficit in the budget. And also - specific full names and names of legal entities with clear connections: BO "FZIS" → "Evaluation Company "Misto" → LLC "Parkpoint" → "Poshtaryuk family" → "Vira Prokopiv Foundation" → Volodymyr Prokopiv.
Such a conveyor works not thanks to one "cunning assessment", but through the built-in interaction of Kyiv City State Administration officials, contractors and beneficiaries. The amounts in individual episodes are different - from 333.5 thousand to tens of millions. The mechanism is the same. And until it is dismantled, "small houses" will continue to turn into large schemes.
