Yuriy Golik, a key figure in the “Great Construction” project, has found himself under the sights of law enforcement agencies due to allegations of unscrupulous activities. Throughout his career, Golik used his influence and position to manipulate government contracts and funds intended for infrastructure projects, which led to significant financial losses for the state. So in this investigation, we decided to explore his path in civil service.
Yuriy Golik was born on December 21, 1977 in Luhansk. In 1999, he received a degree in finance and credit from Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian University.
In 1998, while still a student, Golik began working as an advertising sales manager in the Luhansk regional editorial office of the newspaper Telenedelya. He soon became the commercial director of the radio station Europe Plus in Luhansk.
In 1999, he acquired a part of the Telenedel business from the owner of Ukrainian Media Holding, Boris Lozhkin, and became the head and co-owner of the new company. Under his leadership, the company published a newspaper, owned a radio station, a free classifieds newspaper, an outdoor advertising company, and a retail network for distributing newspapers and magazines.
In 2007, Golik sold his media business in Luhansk and founded a new one, the newspaper and free classifieds website Besplatka. In 2013, his company became one of the largest publishing houses in terms of advertising revenue.
In 2012, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the UMH radio group, joined Holik to increase advertising revenue on radio stations. After the sale of UMH by Boris Lozhkin in 2013, Reznichenko and Holik left the company.
Yuriy Golik's political career began in 2014, although the prerequisite for this was his meeting in 1999 with Boris Lozhkin, a close associate of Petro Poroshenko. After Poroshenko was elected president, Lozhkin became the head of his administration.
A few months after that, Golik's close friend, Valentyn Reznichenko, was appointed governor and held this position for the longest time in the history of independence - 1557 days. At the presentation of the new head of the regional state administration, everyone knew that Reznichenko was a protege of Lozhkin and would work for the benefit of his patrons. Despite the fact that Reznichenko held the position for more than 4 years, he was not remembered for significant achievements. However, his freelance advisor Golik was visible everywhere, presenting all the positive news of the region and being the main ideologist of the PR service of the regional administration.
Everything was going well for Holik, but the situation in the region was not the best. Despite the policy of the government and regional state administration regarding large-scale road construction and repair, the roads of the Dnipropetrovsk region remained in very poor condition, and the purchased asphalt cost 1.5–2 times more than the market price.
At the end of 2019, deputies of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council from "Batkivshchyna" claimed that over the past 4 years, the Reznychenko-Holik duo had adapted tenders for the necessary enterprises for 10-15% of the purchase price.
These facts prompted the deputies of the regional council to create a temporary control commission with the involvement of an external audit to consider the facts of theft during road repairs. Such methods of combating Golik turned out to be completely ineffective.
Then, criminal proceedings No. 120180400000000232 were initiated on the fact of embezzlement of funds by officials assigned to the construction and maintenance of infrastructure. Between 2015 and 2019, 8 different companies received 130 billion hryvnias for the repair and construction of roads.
These companies had one thing in common: they were created within a year and registered under front persons. For example, Budinvest Engineering LLC, founded on November 19, 2015, invoiced UAH 61.2 million for the repair of 8 kilometers of the Malozakharyno-Bogatoe-Solnechnoye country road, while other companies performed similar repairs 2-2.5 times cheaper.
In just a few years, Budinvest Engineering received half a billion hryvnias from the regional administration for roads alone, not including other areas of activity, such as construction, services for maintaining in-house heating and water supply networks, and cleaning of adjacent areas.
After Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the elections, the staff on the ground was renewed. In the summer of 2019, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Valentyn Reznychenko, was dismissed. His advisor, Golik, also lost his influence, but later he reappeared in big politics as an advisor to the newly elected Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk. Golik advised Honcharuk about the possibility of receiving 30% kickbacks for road repairs, since the state budget for 2020 provided for the largest amount for this in all the years of independence - over 113 billion hryvnias.
Meanwhile, the "Great Construction" program began in Ukraine, according to which hundreds of facilities were planned to be built, and became , despite the scandals in the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. He himself spoke about this in an interview with Liga.net.
Answering a question about what areas he is involved in as an advisor to the Prime Minister, Golik said: "I coordinate certain things. In particular, the "Great Construction" project provided for the construction of 100 schools, 100 kindergartens, 100 stadiums in 2020. I was involved in the project to work with 212 reception offices across the country.".
As an advisor to the Prime Minister, Golik focused his efforts on developing recommendations for regional administrations and direct implementers on effective project management.
"My role was to form the ideology, write the work scheme (including the dates of adoption of certain Cabinet orders), determine those responsible, write manuals for designers and contractors, and also explain to everyone the essence - how to do it. Simply put: see what's wrong, explain how it should be, and then the officials themselves implement it into some legal forms," Golik described his duties.
In addition to the construction of infrastructure for children and medical facilities, according to the publication, Golik's area of responsibility also included large-scale road construction, within the framework of which the government planned to repair all 24,000 km of main Ukrainian roads in five years. In 2020, as the advisor to the prime minister noted in an interview, a record amount was attracted for the repair and construction of roads, exceeding 100 billion hryvnias.
Of course, such state investments carried the prospect of “kickbacks” for people involved in large-scale construction, including Yuriy Golik. And scandals regarding corruption during construction involving Golik were not long in coming.
On May 14, 2020, the head of Ukravtodor, Oleksandr Kubrakov, visited Zhytomyr region to check the progress of reconstruction work on the M-06 Kyiv-Chop road, which has been ongoing for the third year.
The €42 million contract for the reconstruction of this road was signed in 2017 with the Chinese corporation Sinohydro Corporation Limited, with a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The company was to expand the road to four lanes as part of the national Europe-Asia corridor.
However, by 2020, the contractors were still continuing the renovations, not meeting the established deadlines. Alexander Kubrakov personally came to inspect the reconstruction, and expressed himself quite sharply:
"We are doing everything possible so that the contractor organization within the framework of a joint project with the World Bank can complete its work on time. But we see that the pace of work is far from desired. I believe that this is a matter of reputation. We are all watching how this company works. I think that the reputation of not only them, but also other Chinese companies is at stake. When we are told that Chinese companies are ready to enter the market, we, all residents of Ukraine, will form our opinion depending on how this project will be implemented. Therefore, I believe that not only their reputation is at stake here, but also the reputation of other Chinese companies. I think they feel and understand this.".
The threats to the contractor were immediately discussed on social networks, where Yuriy Golik reposted with a comment like "look how bad international companies are, and you complain that we don't allow them into the market.".
After being dismissed from his position as advisor to Prime Minister Honcharuk and head of Ukravtodor, Yuriy Golik did not currently hold any official position, but he was already actively speaking out on road construction issues, not only on Facebook.
Instead, in the spring of 2020, the Highway Service in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast announced a tender for almost 2 billion hryvnias to repair 75 kilometers of the M-04 road. Ukravtodor once again included its “filter” from unwanted tender participants in the tender documentation, which allows only a few companies that are members of the National Association of Road Workers of Ukraine to participate.
In April, Sinohydro Corporation Limited, one of the largest construction corporations in China, successfully challenged these criteria in the Antimonopoly Committee, claiming that it has many years of successful international experience in highway construction, but the contracts executed did not fit into the time frame stipulated in the documentation. The tender board of the AMCU obliged the Dnipropetrovsk SAD to clean the tender documentation of discriminatory elements.
So Yuriy Golik's provocation to bring the "right people" to the reconstruction of the road failed.
In parallel, in early April 2020, Yuriy Golik, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Coordinator of the National Infrastructure Development Program "Large Construction", announced that the construction of the H-31 Dnipro-Reshetylovka highway would be completed in 2020. 10.6 billion hryvnias were allocated for construction work in the same year.
The construction of the H-31 highway, which has been ongoing for several years, was described by Yuriy Golik as the largest road construction project in Ukraine. He noted that the work began from scratch in fields and swamps. In addition, journalists learned that real battles unfolded for the opportunity to work on such a project.
"After the construction is completed, the road should connect the cities of Mariupol, Dnipro, Kyiv and Lviv. Initially, it was planned that the highway would be built within 3-4 years. President Volodymyr Zelensky set the task of fully completing the construction in 2020. His instructions will be fulfilled," Yuriy Golik promised.
Then the road construction began at a rapid pace. Work in the Dnipropetrovsk region was carried out around the clock.
According to Dmytro Chumachenko, head of the highway service in the Dnipropetrovsk region, at that time the workers were completing the laying of the third layer of asphalt concrete, applying markings, and planting greenery on the sides. After that, it was already possible to start traffic on the new highway.
“The road section will be put into operation in parts. In the near future, we will open the first 11 kilometers in Petrykivka. Then the remaining sections will be opened,” said Dmytro Chumachenko.
Construction of the new highway began in 2017. Initially as the regional road R-52, and then as the national road N-31. Tenders for the construction of the R-52 road, and later the N-31 road, which runs through the region, were conducted by the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Highway Service.
The first tender was held in June 2017. The winner was the Odesa company Avtomagistral-Yug, associated with the entourage of Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov.
According to the contract, Avtomagistral-Yug was to build 1,940 meters of road.
The company requested 148,162,500 hryvnias for its services. Accordingly, one meter of road cost the state budget 76,372 hryvnias.
In October 2017, the Highway Service in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast held another tender for the construction of 1,900 meters of the R-52 road.
The winner again was Avtomagistral-Yug LLC. The company's price offer was 166,895,100 hryvnias. Thus, one meter of road construction cost 87,839 hryvnias.
A few weeks later, the Highway Service announced a tender for the construction of the national highway H-31. In total, according to the technical specifications, it was necessary to build 7,560 meters of road.
The tender was held only a year later — on October 3, 2018. With a price offer of 427,995,000, the new contractor — Onur Construction International LLC — won the tender. The cost of one meter of road construction for this company turned out to be lower than the prices of Avtomagistral-Yug in 2017. It amounted to 56,613 hryvnias per meter of road construction.
Onur Construction International was co-founded by Onur and Iskhan Cetinjeviz from Turkey, as well as Oleg Farion from Lviv. The company is registered in Kyiv.
According to media reports, Onur Construction International falls within the sphere of influence of former MP and first deputy head of the BPP faction, Ihor Kononenko.
In November 2018, the Highway Service in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast held a tender for the construction of 1,000 meters of the H-31 road.
The tender was won by the company “Avtomagistral-Yug”, whose price offer turned out to be the most advantageous and amounted to 220,000,000 hryvnias. The price of one meter of road was as much as 220,000 hryvnias.
Last year, the Highway Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region also held a number of tenders to continue the construction of the H-31 highway. One of them was held on May 20. According to the tender specifications, the winner of the auction was to build 2,055 meters of the road.
The tender was won by the already familiar company “Avtomagistral-Yug”, requesting 280,999,000 hryvnias for its services. Thus, the price of one meter of road was 136,739 hryvnias.
On May 29, the Highway Service in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast held another tender for the construction of 3,500 meters of the H-31 road.
And it was won again by “Avtomagistral-Yug”, whose price offer was 508,999,999 hryvnias. Thus, one meter of the constructed road cost 145,428 hryvnias.
Three months later, in August, a tender was held for the construction of 1,500 meters of the H-31 road.
With a price offer of 275,999,999 hryvnias, it was won by Avtomagistral-Yug LLC. The company received 183,999 hryvnias for the construction of one meter of the highway.
“Avtomagistral-Yug” continued to win tenders for the construction of the H-31 highway this year. In April, the company received another contract from the Highway Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
“Automagistral-Yug” was supposed to build 2,200 meters of road for 361,999,998 hryvnias.
This means that one meter of highway construction costs 164,545 hryvnias.
A few days ago, the Highway Service held another tender for the construction of the H-31 road. The most favorable price offer was from Avtomagistral-Yug LLC. It amounted to 623,999,999 hryvnias. For this money, the company must build 3,100 meters of the road. This means that one meter of road will cost 201,290 hryvnias.
On April 21, the construction customer announced its intention to conclude a contract with its favorite, Avtomagistral-Yug. It is highly likely that this company will continue the construction of the road and complete it.
Of course, the cost of road construction is influenced by many factors. This includes the list of types of work that the contractor must perform, the complexity of these works, and the growth of the dollar exchange rate, which is reflected in the price of construction materials, fuel and lubricants. Most likely, this explains why the cost of building one meter of the N-31 highway ranges from 56,613 hryvnias to 220,000 hryvnias. But given that law enforcement officers became interested in the “construction of the century” last year, we assume that the cost was also influenced by the corruption component, without which, unfortunately, no construction can do.
In November 2019, proceedings No. 42019040000000710 were entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations under Part 3 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Embezzlement, embezzlement or taking possession of property through abuse of official position).
According to the ruling of the Zhovtnevy District Court dated November 21, 2019, in which prosecutors requested the seizure of funds from the Highway Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region, law enforcement officers suspected employees of this Service and officials of Avtomagistral-Yug LLC of a criminal conspiracy. The purpose of the conspiracy was to embezzle budget funds during the construction of roads.
According to law enforcement officers, the participants in the conspiracy created a scheme that allowed them to overstate the cost of road construction works. In addition to representatives of the Highway Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Avtomagistral-Yug LLC, representatives of the State Fiscal Service and the State Highway Agency of Ukraine Ukravtodor also participated in this illegal scheme.
“But what is Yuriy Golik doing here?” you ask. At the end of May 2021, journalists revealed the involvement of the curator of “Great Poverty” and his connections with the presidential administration.
During the first five months of 2021, the Avtomagistral-Yug company, associated with the deputy head of the Public Works Department, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, signed documents for the implementation of nine tenders for road repair in the Kharkiv region for a total amount of almost 5 billion hryvnias. For comparison, in the previous four years, from 2017 to 2020, the same company collected contracts worth 5-6 billion hryvnias, according to the Prozorro procurement system. In total, Avtomagistral-Yug won tenders worth almost 29 billion hryvnias across Ukraine.
This sharp rise in tender victories in the Kharkiv region coincided with the appointment of Ayna Tymchuk as head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration in late November 2020. Tymchuk, originally from Dnipro, like Tymoshenko, has long experience in leadership positions in the local government of that city.
The company "Automagistral-Yug", formally registered in Odessa, has a branch in Dnipro, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, which is called "Dnipropetrovsk Construction Department". This, along with other factors, indicates the close connection of the company with the region.
However, among the key figures who contributed to the company's success, Yuriy Golik occupies a special place. He played a decisive role in the strategy of expanding the firm's presence in government tenders in Ukraine. Yuriy Golik, who worked as a permanent advisor in the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, had significant experience in organizing tenders through the ProZorro system. Despite the formal position of a freelance advisor, which does not oblige him to submit e-declarations, Golik remained inaccessible to accusations of corruption.
When Kyrylo Tymoshenko became Deputy Head of the Presidential Office, Golik received the position of Advisor on "Large Construction" and continued to oversee the construction and repair of infrastructure facilities, where he still did not hold formal staff positions. Under his influence, Avtomagistral-Yug was able to gain an advantage in tender procedures, winning the most profitable contracts.
Thanks to such influential protection and strategic positioning in the public procurement system, Yuriy Golik not only contributed to the success of Avtomagistrala-Yug in the tender arenas, but also maintained its relative immunity from legal prosecution, even despite numerous scandals and accusations of corruption.
Yuriy Golik also hid his income from the tax service and the NACP by controlling a number of enterprises.
One of these companies was the road construction company “Bud Invest Engineering”, established in 2015 in the city of Dnipro with a charter capital of just over one million hryvnias. The company won 334 government procurements for a total of 22.28 billion hryvnias. The official director of the company was Dmytro Lytnarovych, and the beneficial owners were Yana Khlanta, Pavlo Chukhno and Dmytro Lytnarovych himself.
From 2015 to 2019, Golik served as a non-permanent advisor to the head of the regional state administration, where he was responsible for the formation of infrastructure and budget policy, personnel audit, implementation of project management, as well as the ProZorro and iGov systems. Probably, thanks to his efforts, Bud Invest Engineering concluded contracts worth UAH 13.02 billion with the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Highway Service and UAH 8.87 billion with the Department of Housing, Communal Services and Construction of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
According to the register of legal entities, Yuriy Golik was the beneficial owner of Modern Media Technologies LLC with an authorized capital of UAH 54.4 million. He also owned the advertising agency Bezkoshtovka Print LLC, registered in Dnipro, part of Creative Country LLC, and part of the IT company KSh Services together with Ilya Koenigshtein.
Golik was also actively engaged in publishing. In 2021, the series of books “Big Land” — “Big Construction 2020” and “Big Construction 2020. Face” were published. Two years before that, he released the book “Infinity is Not for Weaklings” about his work in “Reznychenko’s team,” but he did not publicly announce the fee he received. It is worth noting that using book publishing as a means of “laundering” income is a popular scheme among officials and politicians.
And already in 2023, law enforcement officers exposed an unnamed private enterprise that, between 2018 and 2020, worked for Yuriy Golik, who was already burdened with criminal proceedings and had fled to the EU, and carried out repair work on sections of highways in Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions under the terms of contracts concluded with the Highway Services. According to the investigation, the cost of repair work that could not be accepted for operation reached more than 121 million hryvnias, which were illegally received from the budget.
In the summer of 2020, Yuriy Golik was officially removed from the Great Construction project, and Taras Syrotynskyi was appointed as an advisor to the prime minister instead. Although, given the whole picture from today, it is obvious that Golik's removal from office was a PR move, and in the following years Yuriy continued to enrich himself and his patrons in power on the Great Construction.
At that time, Ukravtodor was headed by Oleksandr Kubrakov. He did not hide that he was creating a model of the road repair market, where only selected companies would receive billions. When asked how to become a Ukravtodor contractor, Kubrakov answered rhetorically: “Is there no cartel?” Of course, who is easier to say no to – the cartel or ordinary market participants?
The current model involved the drawing up of billion-dollar tenders among a narrow circle of leaders of the Avtomagistral-Yug cartel, Onur, and Rostdorstroy, as well as the leadership of local companies in several regions. The rest received only situational shares and subcontracting residuals.
In fact, the actual bidding was transferred from the state procedures of Ukravtodor to private disputes between general contractors who selected subcontractors according to their own rules. Thus, the margin that Ukravtodor built into the expected cost of the state bidding was divided not according to the rules of the Prozorro system, but on private territory.
The ideologist of this scheme was Yuriy Golik. Golik and Reznychenko were long-time associates. They met back in the 2000s, when Reznychenko was vice-president of Lozhkin's UMH media holding, and Yuriy Golik headed the holding's advertising department in the Luhansk region, after which he moved to the head office.
But Holik's private enrichment has also come to an end. On May 3, 2023, Yuriy Holik, the curator of the "Great Construction" project, was detained by NABU operatives on the Stolychny highway in Kyiv while leaving home. This was reported by former MP Ihor Mosiychuk.
As part of the case of embezzlement of funds by the leadership of the Dnipropetrovsk OVP led by Valentyn Reznychenko, Holik was served with a suspicion under Part 2 of Articles 28, 368-5, Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code (illegal enrichment as part of an organized group with subsequent legalization of funds), his mobile phone was seized, and he was ordered to appear before the investigator.
The case, the investigation of which is still ongoing, also involves former deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
This investigation concerns how a private company received 1.5 billion hryvnias to repair roads in the Dnipropetrovsk region, setting a record for funding road rehabilitation throughout Ukraine. The company is associated with a close friend of former OVA chairman Valentyn Reznychenko.
As reported, following the results of an on-site meeting of the Temporary Investigative Commission of the Verkhovna Rada, a number of criminal proceedings were opened due to abuse by the leadership of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration.
All criminal proceedings were registered on February 10, 2023, the day after the Supreme Court meeting. The information was entered into the register by investigators of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which has been headed by Anatoliy Shchadylo since 2020. He headed the local police all the time while the head of the regional administration was Valentyn Reznychenko, whom parliamentarians also suspect of involvement in the thefts.
Criminal proceedings 12023040000000141 were opened on the fact of abuse of office by officials of the Dnipropetrovsk region, who received 11.5 thousand laptops as humanitarian aid and further disposed of them at their own discretion (Part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
At the same time, journalists learned that Yuriy Golik had a ready-made plan for his departure. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Volodymyr Orlov, issued an order dated April 20 of this year under number 139/0/527-23 “On the departure of drivers outside Ukraine,” which allowed drivers transporting humanitarian cargo to leave the country.
But here is the "Appendix" to this order:
After the scandal provoked by this order, pitiful explanations were expected from the acting military administrator Vladimir Orlov and detailed reports on "volunteer assistance" from Golik were shown.
Already in 2024, in the Reznychenko-Holik case, the expert examination revealed 300 million hryvnias in losses. Another 1.2 billion hryvnias was classified as misuse of budget funds within the framework of the “Great Construction”.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) continued their investigation into criminal proceedings over tenders for road repairs in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which were won by the Stroyinvest Engineering company, which is associated with the former head of the OVA, Valentyn Reznychenko, and his constant consultant with the OPU, Yuriy Golik.
The main task in the case was to prove that the state suffered losses. This was achieved despite the resistance of the State Audit Service, which is controlled by Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko.
The Minister never gave permission to the head of the State Audit Service to sign the official audit conclusion on the Stroyinvest Engineering case for NABU. However, among the service employees there were honest employees who helped the Bureau, writes Inna Vedernikova in the article “In Search of the “Mole”. How the Crisis Between NABU and SAPO Could End.”.
During the year, Golik's house was searched twice, and during the second search, his phone was seized.
Last week, it became known about leaks of information from the NABU in the Reznychenko-Holik case, confirmation of which was found on Holik's phone.
Yes, during the search, detectives found correspondence between three people. Person #1 has already been identified – this is a NABU detective. Person #2 is Heorhiy Birkadze. Person #3 is more complicated, but it is possible that it is the first deputy director of NABU, Gizo Uglava.
On June 27, 2024, the media was filled with news about the detention of the former curator of the “Great Construction” project and the searches of Kyrylo Tymoshenko’s home in the framework of the NABU leaks case. That same evening, Kyrylo Tymoshenko stated via his Telegram channel: “The sensation is canceled! I confirm that a search was conducted at my home in a case to which I have no connection. I have fulfilled all the requirements of law enforcement officers, there are no complaints against me personally.”
The surname of the former deputy head of the President's Office, and now an advisor to the Minister of Defense, appears in a high-profile criminal investigation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau related to the leak of internal documents on the verification of the use of budget funds for the presidential project "Great Construction".
Kyrylo Tymoshenko has headed the Coordination Council for the Implementation of the “Great Construction” Program since June 2020. This advisory and consultative body under President Volodymyr Zelensky included three ministers (infrastructure, community and territorial development, and healthcare) and the head of Ukravtodor. According to media reports, before the start of Russia's large-scale military attack on Ukraine, more than UAH 200 billion was allocated for road repairs as part of the “Great Construction” program.
In January 2023, amid a scandal over possible embezzlement of funds for road construction in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyrylo Tymoshenko left his post in the Office of the President. A few months later, in September, he won a lawsuit against the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, which suspected him of corruption. Since March 2024, Tymoshenko has become an advisor to Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
NABU, which conducted searches at Kyrylo Tymoshenko's home, paid special attention to documentation related to the "Great Construction," a project researched and supervised by Yuriy Golik.
The search of Tymoshenko revealed evidence that could confirm his connection with Holik. Among the seized documents and electronic records were data on possible meetings of Tymoshenko with Holik and other key figures. The High Anti-Corruption Court seized Tymoshenko's equipment, including a MacBook and two iPhone 15s, which could contain information useful to the investigation.
Simultaneously with Tymoshenko, searches were also carried out at Yuriy Golik's home. As a result, his mobile phones and laptop, which stored data on road construction and potential abuses, were seized. The materials discovered during the searches confirmed Golik's knowledge of the progress of criminal cases, which led to the emergence of new criminal proceedings related to leaks of information from NABU.
On June 13, 2024, it became known that Yuriy Golik, a consultant to the Office of the President of Ukraine, who was a suspect in the SAPO and NABU case, left the territory of Ukraine through the “Shlyakh” system with a certificate of disability, and is now in Austria. This information was confirmed by ZN.UA sources in the State Border Service of Ukraine.
Already at the time of writing this material, it became known that Golik had returned to Ukraine; on his Facebook page, he publishes posts about how he is engaged in volunteer activities and sports despite his “disability.”
His calmness in this situation is very interesting. How, after hiding from the investigation abroad, Yuriy Golik calmly maintains his social networks as if nothing had happened? Perhaps those who leaked to him the progress of the investigation in the NABU could have "decided" to stop the investigation? Perhaps so, considering the profits and connections of Golik, which he received from the "Great Construction" and the reconstruction of infrastructure during the war.
