From 2016 to 2018, former Kyiv City Council member Denys Komarnytskyi and his wife Iryna owned 110 apartments in new buildings in the capital. According to the data investigation Investigation. Info, the couple sold these apartments and earned about 440 million hryvnias.
In particular, the Komarnitskys had 52 apartments in the “Comfort Town” residential complex, 48 in the Central Park residential complex, and another 10 apartments in the Tetris Hall residential complex belonged to Iryna Komarnitsky. After registration of ownership of the Komarnitsky apartments, they were sold almost immediately. Journalists of the project determined the estimated value of real estate in “Comfort Town” and Central Park based on average prices per square meter and calculated that the profit could amount to 330 million hryvnias. Another 110 million hryvnias could be obtained by the couple from the sale of apartments in Tetris Hall at the current valuation.
The construction of all three residential complexes was carried out by the KAN Development company, whose founder is Ihor Nikonov. In 2014–2015, he held the position of first deputy chairman of the KMDA Vitaliy Klychko. In a comment to journalists, Iryna Komarnytska said that the apartments “were not a bribe” but “a business activity”. However, she was unable to explain what exactly was the business interest in such a quick resale of real estate — sometimes just a few days after receiving the ownership right.
In March 2025, Denys Komarnytskyi, who was wanted in the case of corruption in the field of land relations in Kyiv, left abroad. NABU declared him an international wanted man. According to sources, he was in Austria in March.
We will remind that on February 6 NABU and SAP conducted a special operation “Clean City”, the purpose of which was to expose corruption schemes in the capital’s land and budget affairs. According to the investigation, the participants of the scheme identified promising plots and issued fictitious ownership rights to buildings that actually did not exist. This made it possible to submit documents to the city council with a request to transfer the land for the maintenance of fictitious objects – without open auctions.
Among the suspects are ex-deputy of the Kyiv City Council Denys Komarnytskyi, Deputy Chairman of the KMDA Petro Olenych, Chairman of the Land Commission Mykhailo Terentyev, Commission member Olena Marchenko and other persons.
