“A journalistic investigation reveals a dubious scheme for the transfer of ownership rights to one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in Ukraine, the Kharkiv Zdorovya group. The company’s assets, whose annual revenue in 2024 will exceed UAH 2 billion, ended up in the hands of Oleksandr Dorovskyi, the father of SBU General Viktor Dorovskyi, just when the company appeared in cases about ties with Russia. About”, — write on: ua.news
A journalistic investigation reveals a dubious scheme for the transfer of ownership rights to one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in Ukraine, the Kharkiv Group “Health” . The assets of a company whose annual revenue in 2024 exceeded UAH 2 billion ended up in the hands of Oleksandr Dorovskyi, the father of SBU General Viktor Dorovskyi, just when the companies appeared in cases about ties with Russia.
This is stated in the hromadske investigation.
Until the beginning of 2023, the real owner of the group was Russian film producer Leonid Ogorodnikov. Investigators point to his close connection with Russian oligarch and United Russia senator Oleksandr Shishkin, who voted for the annexation of Crimea. Law enforcement officers officially considered “Health” as an object for nationalization, since the beneficiaries had a direct relationship with the aggressor state.
The process of changing owners took place in parallel with the actions of security forces, which raises suspicions among experts about the use of criminal proceedings to redistribute business:
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December 2022: The police recognize the group’s assets as evidence in the case of financing the aggressor.
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“Window” period: Between the admission of evidence and the imposition of a court arrest, the composition of the owners changes rapidly — Ogorodnikov leaves the business, and his place is taken Oleksandr Dorovskyi and a number of Cypriot offshores.
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February 2023: The court seizes the assets, but the lawyers immediately cancel the seizure, arguing that now the owner is the “honest Ukrainian” Dorovsky.
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Reorganization: The old legal entity is liquidated, and over 200 brands medicines are transferred to Dorovsky’s new company — Health Corporation LLC.
It is interesting that after the transfer of assets to the family of the SBU general, the criminal case itself was transferred from the National Police to the Security Service of Ukraine. In 2025, the SBU officially declared that it did not see the connections of the Zdorovya group with Russia, and the companies were excluded from the proceedings.
Lawyers from Transparency International Ukraine and the Anti-Corruption Center point to two versions: either Dorovsky Sr. became a “pound” (denomination) to save Russian assets from confiscation, or the positions in the Security Service of Ukraine were used to seize profitable businesses by force under the guise of patriotic slogans about the fight against the enemy. Currently, Yehor, the second son of Oleksandr Dorovsky, also received shares in the company, which finally consolidated the family’s control over the pharmaceutical giant.
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