Key facts
- Two associates of Oleh Tatarov, deputy head of Ukraine's President's Office, acquired 11 apartments worth over $1 million.
- The properties are located in Kyiv's Perlyna Nyvok and Akvamaryn residential complexes.
- The associates, Natalia Pysareva and Vladlena Tymoshenko, are business partners of Nicola Mirto, an associate of Tatarov.
- Both developments have a history of bankruptcy, stalled construction, and alleged fraud.
- Tatarov was previously charged with bribery in 2020 related to a different controversial development project.
- The bribery case against Tatarov was closed in 2022 after being transferred from NABU to the SBU.
Two alleged associates of Oleh Tatarov, a deputy head of Ukraine's President's Office, have acquired 11 apartments with an estimated total value of over $1 million in two troubled Kyiv developments, according to a report by media outlet Bihus.info.
The apartments are located in the Perlyna Nyvok and Akvamaryn residential complexes and are registered to Natalia Pysareva and Vladlena Tymoshenko. Both women are business partners of Nicola Mirto, an Italian businessman based in Ukraine, who is described as an associate of Tatarov. Mirto had previously been a client of Tatarov’s law firm, and in 2021, he designated Tatarov’s wife as the prospective guardian of his son.
Both residential developments are controversial, having gone through bankruptcy and prolonged stalled construction, with allegations of fraud involved in both cases. In the Perlyna Nyvok project, some apartments with legitimate owners were allegedly re-sold through a fraudulent scheme. The Akvamarin project also saw an attempted fraudulent re-sale. Both developments had agreements to provide apartments to state bodies like the State Guard Administration, the Security Service (SBU), and the National Bank of Ukraine, but these bodies ultimately received only a small portion of the promised units.
Tatarov himself faced bribery charges in 2020 related to another controversial Kyiv development, Aristocrat. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) accused him of bribing a forensic expert to provide false evaluation results that concealed losses incurred by the National Guard in a land plot exchange deal. Maksym Mykytas, then president of Ukrbud, testified against Tatarov. However, the case was later transferred from NABU to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and closed in 2022. In 2023, Oleh Maiboroda, former CEO of Ukrbud, alleged that Tatarov acted as an intermediary in the company’s efforts to bribe state officials between 2014 and 2019.
Following Tatarov's appointment to the President's Office in 2020, some Ukrbud-affiliated assets were reportedly transferred to alleged Tatarov associates. Separately, another alleged associate of Tatarov owns assets confiscated from pro-Russian lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk. Tatarov also faced scrutiny for his role as a police official during the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, where he publicly supported law enforcement actions against protesters and was investigated for persecuting them.