The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has reported that Vlada Molchanova, a real estate developer who controls the Fatherland faction in the Kiev council, and former Party of Regions MP Yuriy Ivanyushchenko (known as Yura Yenakievskyy), as well as his lawyers, are suspected of stealing 18 hectares of land worth over 160m hryvnyas.
This was reported by Dengi.ua with a reference to publication ZN.UA.
Sources of the editorial office note that it may be about the market "Stolichnyy". The NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office found out that two people from Yuriy Ivanyushchenko's entourage, one of Vlada Molchanova's confidants and the former head of the regional department of the State Geocadastre were involved in the scheme. All of them were reported on suspicion under part 5 of article 191 and part 3 of article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (seizure of property by abuse of office and legalization of proceeds of crime).
The NABU noted that in the spring of 2021 between Vlada Molchanova and Yuriy Ivanyushchenko arose a corporate conflict for control over the wholesale market of agricultural products near Kiev. Subsequently, Molchanova began to transfer the market's assets to controlled companies and individuals. Officials of the Main Department of the State Geocadastre in Kyiv region helped in the realization of the scheme by making changes to the State Land Cadastre. This allowed to dispose of a plot of land with the area of more than 150 hectares, where the market is located. Further, the land plot was leased to a company controlled by Molchanova. The head of the company gave up part of the leased land in favor of nine predetermined persons. They, according to the order of the acting head of the State Geocadastre in Kyiv region, obtained ownership of nine plots with a total area of 18 hectares.
Subsequently, these plots were sold to companies associated with Molchanova through fictitious transactions. During the settlement of the conflict, Molchanova and Ivanyushchenko signed a memorandum ("notion") on joint use of the land mass for development. In September 2021, the trustee of the former deputy became a member of the beneficiaries of the landowning societies. However, at the request of prosecutors SAP further operations with the land massif were stopped by its arrest.
Former Ukrainian MP Yuriy Ivanyushchenko left Ukraine in December 2014 and now lives with his family in Monaco. In January 2015, he was declared wanted for committing crimes under Part 5 of Article 191 (seizure of property through abuse of office), Part 3 of Article 189 (extortion with the use of violence or resulting in significant property damage) and Part 3 of Article 368 (receiving an undue advantage by an official) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In 2025, companies controlled by the structures of Yuriy Ivanyushchenko and his business partner Ivan Avramov were officially allowed to trade coal from the "DNR" and "LNR". In particular, we are talking about the Nagolchanskaya Central Processing Plant, which was re-registered in Kyiv back in early 2015. In 2017, the Supreme Court of Ukraine closed the criminal proceedings against Ivanyushchenko, but the Prosecutor General's Office continued the investigation, merging the criminal cases.
In the same year, Ivanyushchenko was removed from the EU sanctions lists, and Interpol removed him from the international wanted list several times based on the decisions of Ukrainian courts. Meanwhile, Switzerland seized 72 million Swiss francs (about 650 million hryvnias at the then exchange rate), which, according to the investigation, were illegally withdrawn from Ukraine. The Swiss authorities said they were ready to return these funds to Ukraine if their illegal origin was proven.
In April 2019, the Odesa Prosecutor's Office closed criminal cases on the raider seizure of the Seventh Kilometer market and large-scale embezzlement of budget funds. However, the Prosecutor General's Office overturned these decisions against Ivanyushchenko and resumed the investigation. Further, in 2023, the former MP together with his daughter and wife were found in Monaco. In the summer of the same year at the request of the Bureau of economic security Pechersky district court of Kyiv in absentia declared Yuri Ivanyushchenko under arrest.
