Journalists found a plot of land acquired by the company of Gladkovsky’s son in the La Zagaleta settlement
The Spanish company Bilderberg Consulting Financiero, owned by Mikhail Gladkovsky, one of the sons of the wanted former first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleg Gladkovsky, acquired a plot of land in the elite settlement of La Zagaleta on the southern coast of Spain in April 2022. And, according to satellite images, from the summer of that year to the present day, active work has been underway on the construction of a villa in this territory.
This was established by the journalists of “Schemes” (a project of Radio Liberty). Oleg Gladkovsky (Svinarchuk), a longtime ally and business partner of the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, is now accused in the NABU case of abuses in the purchase of cars for the army; he himself denies the charges. After Oleg Gladkovsky stopped appearing at court hearings, he was put on the wanted list in April 2024.
La Zagaleta is a gated elite community in the south of Spain in the province of Malaga, which is chosen by show business stars, athletes, businessmen and politicians from all over the world. In 2016, Schemes reported that former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his close business and political associates, Igor Kononenko and Oleg Gladkovsky, have villas in the same province.
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in La Zagaleta, as the “Schemes” established, the Gladkovsky family acquired a new plot of land and, apparently, is completing construction on a new estate.
According to an extract from the real estate register, which the Schemes obtained with the help of OCCRP, on April 29, 2022, a land plot with an area of 4,328 square meters - that is, almost half a hectare - appeared in the ownership of the Spanish company Bilderberg Consulting Financiero. Purpose - for development.
Bilderberg Consulting Financiero is a company registered in 2015 in the province of Malaga. Types of activities, in particular - construction, rental and purchase and sale of all types of real estate of any type. According to an extract from the commercial register of Spain, the owner of the company is Mikhail Gladkovsky.
This is the 28-year-old middle son of the former first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleg Gladkovsky.
Mikhail is the least public of the Gladkovsky family, but is also involved in the family business: in Ukraine, he is a co-owner of several companies that are part of his structure or associated with it. One of the few publications that you can know about him on the Internet is about a luxurious wedding in Venice in 2018, for which they chose a five-star hotel with first-class service. In the photos and videos from the wedding you can see Mikhail’s brother Igor Gladkovsky, father Oleg Gladkovsky and his colleague Igor Kononenko.
Mikhail Gladkovsky became a shareholder of the Spanish Bilderberg Consulting Financiero six months before the acquisition of the land plot: according to data from the Spanish trade register, it was December 2021. Before this, the owner was Irina Petrovskaya. She remains the director of the company. This woman has already appeared in the “Schemes” investigations about the Spanish villas of Petro Poroshenko and his then associates Igor Kononenko and the aforementioned Oleg Gladkovsky: all the companies in which the Spanish real estate of the trio of long-time comrades and associates in Spain were recorded had a common administrator - this is Irina Petrovskaya .
The “schemes” established a plot of land acquired by the company of Gladkovsky’s son in the settlement of La Zagaleta. It is 15 minutes by car from the family's previously famous villa.
According to Airbus satellite images, work on the construction of a building is currently ongoing on the territory - a construction crane and the foundation of the future estate are visible. It will probably be a multi-level villa. Based on Planet Labs satellite photos of the area previously, construction work there most likely began in June 2022.
At what price Gladkovsky’s company paid for this plot of land, there is no information about this information in the extract from the Spanish registry. However, Schemes journalists found an advertisement for the sale of another plot of land with a similar area in the same La Zagaleta - for 2.5 million euros, this price also includes the price for designing the villa. The announcement states that the architect who designed the project estimated the cost of the construction itself to be 4.5 million euros as of September 2021 - but this figure may vary, depending on the quality of materials and functionality. It also says that the cost of a finished villa can reach 12-15 million euros.
The source of funds for the land plot could be, among other things, a loan from Bilderberg Consulting Financiero from a business directly related to the Gladkovsky family, which is mentioned in the financial report of the Spanish company. This is 2 million euros provided in 2022 by the Viennese company Bogdan Holding GmbH. Its owner, through a chain of two other companies - the Cypriot Hesutu Limited and the Virgin Islands company Teckford Investments Financial Corporation - is the former NSDC official Oleg Gladkovsky himself. He also listed these companies in his declarations.
In the history of the loan, the connection with Gladkovsky Sr. can also be traced through the director of Bogdan Holding GmbH - Ukrainian Dmitry Litvinets, who from 2013 to 2017 was a member of the supervisory board of the Automotive Company Bogdan Motors. Oleg Gladkovsky and his close associates had a share of ownership in it.
“Schemes” turned to Mikhail and Oleg Gladkovsky for comments on the origin of funds for new Spanish real estate. They did not respond to calls and messages. The editors also sent requests to the Bogdan Corporation, whose president is Oleg Gladkovsky. And son Mikhail is a co-founder of the Bogdan Automobile Group, a company that has a stake in the corporation.
Oleg Gladkovsky was the first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council from 2015 to 2019; he was called a close business partner of the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko. His dismissal was preceded by an investigation by Bihus.info journalists - “Friends of the President are stealing from the defense industry (secret correspondence)” - about the amounts of kickbacks and schemes for theft of millions in the defense sector.
According to journalists, a direct participant in these schemes was Gladkovsky’s son Igor, as well as Oleg Gladkovsky himself and representatives of Ukroboronprom.
In April 2024, the High Anti-Corruption Court put him on the wanted list.
Oleg Gladkovsky and his son denied the charges.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau detained Oleg Gladkovsky in October 2019 on suspicion of abuse of power and declaring false information. He alleged “politically motivated unlawful persecution.”
In May 2020, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced a change in suspicion against Oleg Gladkovsky in the case of abuse of defense orders and increased the amount of incriminated losses from 10.62 million hryvnia to 17.44 million hryvnia. In July 2021, SAPO referred the case to court.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, according to Schemes journalists with access to border crossing data, Oleg Gladkovsky has left Ukraine several times - both as a volunteer and as a truck driver.
In April 2024, the High Anti-Corruption Court put him on the wanted list.
The court took into account the defendant’s failure to appear at court hearings and the presence of confirmed information about his stay abroad and granted the request of the SAPO prosecutors.
