Number of judges and policemen privatised official apartments in Kyiv new buildings - media. PHOTO
In recent years, a number of judges and police officers have received and privatised official apartments in Kyiv new buildings provided by the state for their use. Some of them had previously "hidden" their previously acquired private housing, probably to justify the need for official housing.
This is stated in an investigation by Bihus.Info, Censor.NET reports.
For example, in 2019, former judge of the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal Liudmyla Hubska received a three-room office apartment in the "Comfort Town" residential complex. The cost of such an apartment today is at least $115,000. In 2023, she privatised it and resigned a few months later.
At the same time, the judge's family is clearly not one of those who need such assistance from the state. In 2022, Hubska became the owner of a two-bedroom apartment and a parking space in a new residential complex in Cherkasy. Her son Ruslan Hubskyi also bought another two-bedroom apartment there. Her daughter-in-law, meanwhile, bought two more one-bedroom apartments in the same "Comfort Town" residential complex in Kyiv. In total, the judge and her family bought about $400,000 worth of real estate and cars while using their official housing.
Yulia Voitkovska, a former court registrar at the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal, also privatised an apartment in "Comfort Town". Neither she nor her daughter had their own home in Kyiv at the time of receiving their official accommodation. In 2022, Voitkovska's 18-year-old daughter Anna Kosenko bought a large new apartment in the "Rusanivska Havan" residential complex. However, neither Voitkovska nor Kosenko lived in it, as it was immediately used by judge Yevhen Mezentsev, whose assistant Yulia Voitkovska worked as.
Yurii Pidchenko, a judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court, received a three-room apartment in the "Motornyi" residential complex from the state and almost immediately privatised it. However, even before he started using the official housing, his wife Inna Pidchenko bought her own apartment in Kyiv, which mysteriously disappeared from the judge's declarations just before he received the official one. The journalists found out that the judge's wife had simply registered her apartment to her mother. In addition to this "gift" from her daughter, in 2021, she got another apartment in the expensive "Delmar" residential complex in Pechersk. Apartments of the same size, depending on the renovation, now cost between $170,000 and $250,000.
Law enforcement officers also receive housing from the state. For example, Serhii Boichuk, head of the Department for Support of the Minister of Internal Affairs, privatised his office apartment in the "Kryshtalevi Dzherela" residential complex in 2023. At the same time, in his declarations for previous years, he indicated that he had owned a two-bedroom apartment in Pozniaky since 2014. Before the police officer started using official housing, his own apartment disappeared from his declarations.
As Boichuk explained in a comment to Bihus.Info, it now belongs to his mother:
"The thing is that during the full-scale invasion, we were evicted from the place where my parents had lived, so I had to find somewhere to put my parents. They lived in Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv region".
However, this version does not stand up to any criticism, as the full-scale invasion began in February 2022, and Boichuk had already transferred the apartment to his mother in 2020. But in 2021, probably due to the lack of his own housing, Boichuk received a service apartment, which he later privatised.
Two more official apartments in the "Slavutych" residential complex were given to law enforcement officers close to the head of the National Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, - Dmytro Sokolov and Artem Rodyhin. Both have changed jobs in recent years, depending on Vyhivskyi's reassignments, and eventually got positions in Kyiv. This proximity may have affected the speed and quality of service housing - "Slavutych" is the most expensive residential complex in our list and one of the most expensive complexes in Kyiv with service apartments.
Dmytro Sokolov, the head of a department at the National Police, started using a three-bedroom apartment in 2022 and privatised it two years later. During this period, his family was actively buying property near Kyiv. In particular, in 2022, the police officer's mother got a 70-square-metre apartment in a residential complex in Sofiivska Borshchahivka. In 2024, Sokolov's mother-in-law also bought another apartment in the same residential complex.
Artem Rodyhin, deputy head of the Main Department of Kyiv National Police, received a four-room apartment in the same residential complex. It has not yet been privatised, but it has already been removed from the list of official apartments, which is the main step towards privatisation.
