The new head of Kyivmiskbud, which is 80% owned by the Kyiv community and is one of the largest developers in the country, is connected to the business empire of his predecessor, Igor Kushnir, who left his post at the end of last year after a series of scandals , according to an investigation by Bihus Info.
In particular, Vasyl Oliynyk, who was appointed head of Kyivmiskbud in early February, has worked as a general contractor for the past few years at the Stolitsa Group facilities of Vladyslav Molchanova, a well-known Kyiv developer. Among Kyiv developers, he was called “Vlady’s engineer.”.
Molchanova herself is a business partner of Igor Kushnir's family. It turned out that Molchanova and Kushnir's 25-year-old daughter Darya are listed among the ultimate beneficiaries of the British company Alliance 1903 LTD, registered in London at the end of 2022. According to data from the British register, this company is also engaged in real estate development activities.
In addition, last fall, Molchanova and Kushnir had connections with a businessman close to the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak.
Earlier, journalists reported that Yermak's former partner in the film business, Artem Kolyubaev, who heads the Council for State Support of Cinematography, began to actively engage in the construction business associated with pro-Russian politicians Viktor Medvedchuk and Vadym Stolar. This concerns the construction of the Kyiv-based company ENSO.
It turned out that Kolyubaev now also has a joint business with individuals associated with the former head of Kyivmiskbud, Igor Kushnir, and Stolitsa Group Molchanova. Thus, at the end of November 2023, the owners of LLC “Financial Company “Garant Capital”, which is to be engaged in the completion of the residential complex “Evryka”, changed. Previously, it was registered under the managers Kushnir and Stolar, now Artem Kolyubaev himself, ENSO managers and a Stolitsa Group lawyer are listed among its co-owners.
In addition, journalists previously stated that Molchanova, along with Kushnir and MP Vadym Stolar, were the real beneficiaries of the private company bUd Development, which is associated with Kyivmiskbud.
As reported, in December 2023, the former president of Kyivmiskbud, Ihor Kushnir, who had been suspended from his duties since July last year, decided to resign.
Earlier, journalists discovered that Kushnir's business circle and relatives built a closed cottage town on the land withdrawn from Kyivmiskbud in Kozyn. The cost of the houses built there was estimated at over $3 million. Journalists also found out that in 2019-2020, Kushnir's wife's company acquired a French company, for which a villa on the Cote d'Azur with an estimated value of 20 million euros was registered.
In addition, it became known that in May 2023, the head of Kyivmiskbud together with his wife Oksana conquered Everest. At the same time, Kushnir received the right to leave Ukraine during wartime thanks to a certificate of disability. The climb to the top cost the couple $150 thousand. And Kushnir himself stayed abroad for about eight months.
Currently, Kyivmiskbud is constructing almost 1.5 million sq. m of housing – 22 residential complexes with over 100 houses of varying degrees of readiness. At the same time, work has not been underway at most of Kyivmiskbud’s construction sites for a long time, and the company is asking the Kyiv authorities for billions of hryvnias from the city budget to complete them.
