The prosecutor of the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, Alexander Gutsulyak, who is responsible for the environmental direction, settled in a cottage town, the case of which was handled by his own prosecutor's office. The cost of houses here starts from 18 million hryvnia.
We are talking about the cottage town “Vitagrad”, located in Khodosovka, 7 kilometers from Kyiv. In the fall of 2021, the court arrested a number of land plots, including in Vitagrad, due to alleged land and environmental problems. However, a year later the same court “changed its mind” and canceled the arrest. The court materials contain a reference to a letter from the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, according to which there was insufficient evidence indicating a violation of environmental legislation in these areas.
Six months after this, Alexander Gutsulyak, the prosecutor responsible for the environmental direction of the same regional prosecutor’s office, settled in the cottage town. The man drove into a two-story cottage with an area of 180 square meters. According to data from the developer’s resources, an estate of such area here now costs about 18-19 million hryvnia.
Then, in May 2023, Gutsulyak switched to a new car – a 2022 BMW X5. Both the plots under the estate and the cars are registered in the name of the prosecutor’s father.
In a conversation with journalists, Gutsulyak assured that his work in the prosecutor’s office had nothing to do with moving to Vitagrad. And also that the estate was not bought, but built, because the father allegedly acquired only a plot of land:
“No one bought the house, but they built it. Secondly, my father's house. He bought the plot and built the house accordingly.”
Ironically, according to Gutsulyak’s declaration, almost 9 acres in the expensive capital Khodosovka cost my father less than 200 thousand hryvnia. This is what one hundred square meters costs here now. In addition, the prosecutor said that construction of the estate began at the beginning of 2023, and he moved in already in the summer of that year. However, according to aerial photographs from the LUN service and Google Earth Pro, the house in which the prosecutor lives began to be built in the fall of 2021, and in the spring of 2022 it was already ready. Alexander Gutsulyak, in a conversation with journalists, explained this as “magic.”
The prosecutor's father, Viktor Gutsulyak, told reporters a different story. The man says that he bought the plot back in 2021, but did not register it, but “agreed with the developer.” At the same time, he allegedly did not tell his son, who eventually settled there, anything. It was then that construction allegedly began. The man also says that he is engaged in business and can afford it:
"I am 63 years old. I can afford to buy a plot of land in any corner of Ukraine.”
Considering that Gutsulyak’s father has recently also become the owner of two more apartments (in Kyiv and Irpen) and based on the value of the estates from the developer (plus the real price of land in Khodosovka), then, according to journalists, the official earnings of the prosecutor’s father in recent years it would not have been enough to purchase both real estate and a new car.
The head of the Kyiv court “periodically visits” an expensive country estate, but does not declare it
The Chairman of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal Oleg Khripun did not declare the house in the cottage town “Vitagrad”, which, according to him, he periodically “visits”. A house of this size now costs more than 30 million hryvnia.
The judge’s declaration for 2023 indicates the ownership of a land plot in Chistopolye, as well as the rental of a house in Podgortsy. According to the declaration, Khripun does not have his own housing.
However, Bihus.Info journalists noticed that the car used by the judge leaves in the morning from the expensive cottage town “Vitagrad”, which is near Kiev. The cost of houses here starts from 18 million hryvnia.
Oleg Khripun himself does not have real estate here. But his ex-mother-in-law has one. The woman is listed as the owner of the land plot on which there is a two-story mansion of almost 300 square meters with its own swimming pool on the territory. The developer’s social networks say that the price of such a cottage now is 870 thousand dollars, that is, more than 34 million hryvnia.
The judge’s ex-wife, whom he divorced in 2014, lives on the estate. Khripun says that he allegedly does not use this property constantly, but periodically visits his ex-wife, which is why he “comes here.” Therefore, he insists that he does not know how and why to declare this estate.
