How law enforcement helped Komarnytskyi escape abroad - media investigation. VIDEO
Former Kyiv City Council deputy and businessman Denys Komarnytskyi, who is a suspect in the "Clean City" corruption case in the capital, was helped by law enforcement to flee abroad.
This is stated in the investigation by Mykhailo Tkach, Censor.NET reports.
For example, Komarnitskiy's friend Yurii Dovhalenko admitted during interrogation by the SSU that he had organised Komarnitskiy's secret departure from Kyiv to the Ukrainian border.
"On 10.02.2025, at about 18.00, my friend Komarnytskyi D.S. called me on the Signal messenger and informed me of the need to leave for the western part of the country due to problems related to the criminal prosecution by the NABU. Later, Komarnitskiy informed me that he would further wish to cross the state border of Ukraine to hide. Komarnitskiy also informed me that all actions to transport him to western Ukraine should be carried out as soon as possible until he is officially declared wanted," he said.
While already in Zakarpattia, Dovhalenko introduced himself as a police officer of the SBU and showed an official ID card of a freelance employee of the SBU operational unit, the investigation says.
According to the newspaper, four people with SSU IDs, two employees of the Strategic Investigations Department of the Transcarpathian region, and one local deputy took part in the rescue of Komarnitsky.
The Komarnytskyi's case
On 6 February this year, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced the exposure of a criminal organisation headed by Denys Komarnytskyi, a person involved in the Bihus.Info investigations, who was called the "watchdog for Kyiv".
The scheme consisted of searching for promising land plots and registering ownership of structures that had never existed on those plots in the name of controlled persons. Subsequently, applications were submitted to the city council to grant them ownership of the land plots for the maintenance of these structures, which allowed them to avoid bidding.
Members of the Kyiv City Council and officials of the Kyiv City State Administration ensured the adoption of decisions on granting the relevant land rights, for which they received bribes in the form of money and real estate.
According to the investigation, as a result of the criminal organisation's activities in 2023-2024, land in the city centre worth UAH 11.6 million was illegally withdrawn from the ownership of the Kyiv territorial community.
Earlier it was reported that journalist Mykhailo Tkach discovered Denys Komarnitsky, the 'watchdog for Kyiv', in Vienna.
