The head of the Antimonopoly Committee Pavel Kirilenko and members of his family became owners of property worth more than UAH 70 million over several years.
They purchased apartments, land, a house, offices, cars and parking spaces. None of Kirilenko’s relatives was involved in business, and the official himself, before working in the Antimonopoly Committee, served as chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration.
This is stated in the Schemes investigation. Thus, Kirilenko’s father-in-law Alexander Matienko in April 2020 became the owner of a plot of land and a two-story house near the capital. On the territory there is a guest house and a large garage. Official cost – 4 million UAH.
The declared cost is 430 thousand dollars. At that time, in Ukrainian currency this was more than 10 million hryvnia. That is, the difference in value in the advertisement and contracts is more than 6 million. In April 2021, Kirilenko’s father-in-law bought new property in the same cottage town. This is a plot of land with an area of 25 acres. Now you can see the foundation of the future building on it.
Apartments in Uzhgorod. On August 10, 2022, the father-in-law becomes the owner of real estate in Uzhgorod, in the Residents Park business class residential complex, on the embankment. From here to the center - 3 minutes by car. Alexander Matienko bought property rights to two apartments in this residential complex. One has an area of 90 square meters, the other is slightly smaller - almost 74.
Their cost under the contract is 800 thousand and 640 thousand hryvnia, respectively. But if you look at market prices, their value at the time of purchasing property rights was higher: 7 million hryvnia for large apartments, and about 6 million for smaller ones. In April 2023, Kirilenko’s father-in-law bought property rights to an apartment with an area of 77 square meters. On paper – for 670 thousand hryvnia. According to data from a profile website specializing in real estate, the market value of these apartments is almost 6 million hryvnia.
In April 2023, Kirilenko’s mother-in-law Natalya Matienko also bought property rights to an apartment with an area of 78 square meters, allegedly for 670 thousand hryvnia. The market value of such apartments at that time was almost 6 million hryvnia. If we calculate the total value of all Uzhgorod family real estate at the time of purchase at market prices, we get a sum of almost 25 million hryvnia.
The apartment was registered in the name of my wife's grandmother. In Kyiv, Kirilenko lives in a 4-room apartment of almost 200 square meters, the owner of which is Albina Vinnikova, the grandmother of the official’s wife. She is also from Gorlovka. And it was Vinnikova who gave her daughter, that is, the mother of Kirilenko’s wife, valuable real estate in the capital - in the Obolon Plaza business class residential complex. The office space with an area of 188 square meters, which later became a studio, cost Vinnikova almost 12 million hryvnia. She paid the money for it back in October 2021.
But this is not all the real estate that the official’s family has in the Obolon Plaza residential complex. Kirilenko’s mother-in-law Natalya Matienko registered ownership of two apartments here in March 2023. Both are on the same floor. Each of them has an area of almost 90 square meters. Their total cost, according to the contracts available to Schemes, is 9.5 million hryvnia. These funds were contributed under preliminary agreements concluded in 2021. Kirilenko’s father-in-law Alexander Matienko also owns property in Obolon Plaza, namely two parking spaces. The cost of one such parking space at the beginning of sales ranged from 40 thousand dollars and more.
As a result, the family of the head of the Antimonopoly Committee owns:
- a house and two plots of land in a picturesque village in the north of Kyiv;
- four apartments and parking spaces in a premium residential complex in Uzhgorod;
- two apartments, commercial real estate and parking spaces in a business class residential complex in Kyiv;
- another apartment in the capital, where the family actually lives;
- two cars.
Kirilenko himself and his relatives claim that the family earned start-up capital, in particular, thanks to entrepreneurial activity and the sale of shares back in 1997. As for the first point, “Schemes” did not find such information in the official registers of individuals and legal entities of Ukraine.
Mother-in-law Natalya Matienko never had a business. As Schemes managed to find out with the help of sources with access to a database of official income on which taxes were paid, the only payment she received was in 2003 - 185 UAH from a private enterprise.
Her husband, that is, Kirilenko’s father-in-law, Alexander Matienko, primarily worked in the traffic police - the state traffic police, before it was reformed into the patrol police. In the period from 2005 to 2015, he received 223 thousand hryvnia in salary. He also, as journalists established, was never officially an entrepreneur. And it’s been 9 years since he’s worked anywhere.
Wife Alla Kirilenko, according to the official’s declarations, also officially did not have enough funds to help her parents purchase numerous real estate and cars. As does the chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee himself, taking into account his salary and savings.
At the same time, Kirilenko’s wife declared a million hryvnia in income from business activities for 2022 - but this money is not in the tax reports and Alla Kirilenko was not registered as a sole proprietor that year. Grandmother Albina Vinnikova has received only 16 hryvnia from Privatbank in 2013 according to official accruals over the past quarter century. And, according to tax data from 2015 to 2017, social payments as an internally displaced person amounted to just over one thousand hryvnia.
