Russian "Gazprom" executive Kaniuka sells estate near Kyiv for $4 million – "Slidstvo.Info". PHOTOS
An 850-square-metre mansion in the village of Ivankovychi near Kyiv has been listed for sale for $4 million. Its owner is Russian citizen Valerii Kaniuka, who spent many years in senior positions at a subsidiary of Russia’s "Gazprom".
This is detailed in a Slidstvo.Info investigation, Censor.NET reports.
What is being sold
According to the outlet, the estate sits on a 0.7-hectare plot and includes a guesthouse, a guardhouse and a private park.
Inside, there is a gun room, a wine-tasting room, a library, a billiards room, a sauna and two swimming pools — one indoor and one outdoor. In addition to being offered for sale, the house was advertised for rent at $7,500 a month. According to the journalists, the sale listings had been on property websites for several months.
The estate agent who published four promotional video tours of the house told the outlet that he was not actually selling the property and had filmed the videos "to gain followers".
The Capital estate agency, which handled the rental, said it does not work with citizens of the aggressor state and suggested that the property may have entered its database without prior checks. By the time the investigation was published, the rental listings had disappeared from the websites.
What is known about Kaniuka himself?
- Investigators established from the State Register of Property Rights that the house and land belong to 72-year-old Valerii Kaniuka, a Russian citizen.
- He acquired the property in 2009. The register extract contains details of his Ukrainian passport, which, according to the State Migration Service, is currently invalid. Meanwhile, the journalists, citing their own sources, say he obtained a Russian passport in the Yamalo-Nenets district in 2003 and remains an active taxpayer in Russia.
According to the outlet, Kaniuka worked for more than 15 years at "Gazkomplektimpex" (renamed "Gazprom Komplektatsiya" in 2009), holding positions including acting director general, deputy director general and first deputy director general.
From 2017 to 2024, he served as an adviser to private companies in Russia’s oil and gas sector. "Gazprom Komplektatsiya" has been under Ukrainian sanctions since June 2024.
Visits to Ukraine and Crimea
According to border-crossing records, Valerii Kaniuka visited Ukraine 26 times between 2015 and 2022. He last left in January 2022, a month before the full-scale invasion.
According to the outlet, his adult sons work and run businesses in Ukraine, and one of them owns part of the land beneath the estate. In open sources, the journalists found a reference indicating that Kaniuka holidayed in occupied Crimea in 2025 and finished fourth in a billiards tournament among guests at the "Sakropol" sanatorium in Saky.
The journalists were unable to contact Kaniuka. One of his sons, whom they called, declined to say who manages the estate and said: "Everything there is legal, everything is fine."
Tetiana Khutor, head of the Institute of Legislative Ideas think tank, explained that if a person is in Russia and has engaged in activities that could have harmed Ukraine’s economic security, there may be grounds for sanctions, including an asset freeze.
