“Journalists of Bihus.Info investigated that a number of judges and policemen in recent years received and privatized service apartments in new buildings in Kyiv, while some of them hid previously purchased personal housing.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Bihus.Info investigation
Literally: “Despite the fact that both distribution and privatization of official housing are legal, for some reason this opportunity is very often used by the wrong employees who really need it.”
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Details: The investigation concerns, in particular, the former judge of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal, Lyudmila Gubska, who in 2019 received a three-room office apartment in the “Comfort Town” housing complex. The cost of such a car now is at least 115,000 dollars. As early as 2023, she privatized it and resigned a few months later.
“At the same time, the judge’s family is clearly not one of those who need such help from the state. In 2022, Gubska became the owner of a two-room apartment and a parking space in a new residential complex in Cherkasy. Her son Ruslan Gubsky also bought another two-room apartment there. Meanwhile, her daughter-in-law bought two more one-room apartments in the same “Comfort Town” residential complex in Kyiv.In general, the judge and his family bought up real estate and a car while using the official residence for four hundred thousand dollars,” writes Bihus.Info.
According to journalists, an apartment in “Comfort Town” was also privatized by Yuliya Voitkovska, a former secretary of the court session in the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal. At the time of receiving official housing, neither she nor her daughter had their own housing in Kyiv. In 2022, Voitkovska’s 18-year-old daughter Anna Kosenko bought a large new apartment in the “Rusanivska Gavan” residential complex. But neither Voitkovska nor Kosenko lived in it, because it was immediately used by judge Yevhen Mezyentsev, whose assistant Yulia Voitkovska worked.
Yuriy Pidchenko, judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv, received from the state and almost immediately privatized a three-room apartment in the Motorny residential complex. However, even before starting to use the official residence, his wife Inna Pidchenko purchased her own apartment in Kyiv, which mysteriously disappeared from the judge’s declarations just before receiving the official residence.
Journalists established that the judge’s wife simply transferred her residence to her mother. In addition to this “gift” from her daughter, she got another apartment in 2021 – in the expensive residential complex “Delmar” in Pechersk. Apartments of the same area, depending on the renovation, currently cost from 170 to 250 thousand dollars.
Journalists investigated, What law enforcement officers also receive housing from the state. So, for example, Serhii Boychuk, head of the department for ensuring the activities of the Minister of Internal Affairs, in 2023 privatized an office apartment in the residential complex “Kryshtalevi Tzhorka”. At the same time, in his declarations for previous years, he indicated that he owned a two-room apartment in Poznyaki since 2014. Before the policeman started using the official residence, his own apartment disappeared from his declarations. As Boychuk explained in a comment to Bihus.Info, it now belongs to his mother.
According to journalists, law enforcement officers Dmytro Sokolov and Artem Rodygin, who are close to the head of the National Police Ivan Vygivskyi, were given two more service apartments in the “Slavutich” housing complex. Both have changed jobs in recent years depending on Vyhivskyi’s reassignments and eventually received positions in Kyiv. This proximity could affect the speed and “quality” of obtaining office housing – “Slavutich” is the most expensive residential complex in our list and one of the most expensive complexes where there are currently office apartments in Kyiv.
According to the investigation, Dmytro Sokolov, head of one of the NPU departments, started using the three-room apartment in 2022 and privatized it in two years. During this period of time, his family actively bought real estate near Kyiv. In particular, in 2022, the policeman’s mother got an apartment of 70 square meters in one of the residential complexes in Sofiivska Borshchagivka. In 2024, Sokolova’s mother-in-law also bought another apartment in this residential complex.
Artem Rodygin, the deputy head of the GUNP in Kyiv, received a four-room apartment in the same residential complex. Currently, it is not yet privatized, but it has already been excluded from the official list – this is the main step towards the privatization of the apartment.