AC HAAC leaves unchanged ruling to refuse removing Chernyshov
The Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has dismissed the prosecutor's appeal against the refusal of the investigating judge to remove former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov from his post, Transparency International Ukraine has said.
"The prosecutor requested to cancel the ruling of the investigating judge, insisting that it was illegal. The defense objected, noting that since July 17, 2025, Chernyshov has been retired anyway, so there are no grounds to satisfy the complaint," the message on Telegram said on Monday.
As reported, on June 23, the NABU and the SAPO reported suspicion of abuse of office and obtaining an especially large amount of illegal benefit for himself and third parties to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity of Ukraine Oleksiy Chernyshov. In particular, his actions in his former position as Minister of Community and Territorial Development were qualified under Part 2 of Article 15, Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 364, Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
According to the investigation, the developer and his proxy developed a scheme to illegally obtain a land plot in Kyiv for the construction of a residential complex. Chernyshov was involved in the implementation of the scheme when he held the position of minister, his advisor, the then state secretary of the ministry, and the director of the state enterprise. Law enforcement officers believe that the minister created the conditions for transferring the land plot to the management of the specified state enterprise, the state secretary granted permission to make a significant economic commitment, and the director of the state enterprise illegally concluded investment agreements with the "necessary" construction company. According to them, the developer was to give the state a part of the future apartments in an amount proportional to the cost of the land plot. To minimize this amount, the land and the buildings on it were valued almost five times cheaper, and the difference between this valuation and the market value exceeded UAH 1 billion. This is the amount by which the state would have received less real estate if the contracts had been executed. This was prevented by the seizure of the plot, which was imposed at the request of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO).
Earlier, five people were informed of the suspicion, including: the former State Secretary of the Ministry of Regional Development, the former advisor to the minister, the former director of a state-owned enterprise and the developer and his trusted person (organizers of the scheme).
On June 17, the former State Secretary of the Ministry of Regional Development was taken into custody with the alternative of a bail of UAH 20 million. On June 20, the Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals arrested the developer - the organizer of the corruption scheme in the Ministry of Regional Development with the alternative of a bail of UAH 100 million.
On June 27, the Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals chose a preventive measure for Chernyshov in the form of a bail of UAH 120 million, partially satisfying the request, in particular, refusing to wear an electronic monitoring device (bracelet). According to the court decision, the suspect is assigned the following duties: to appear at every call of a detective, prosecutor or court, to report a change in his place of residence and place of work, not to leave the territory of Ukraine without the permission of the investigator, prosecutor or court. The term of the duties assigned to Chernyshov is two months, that is, until August 27, 2025. On July 2, bail was posted for Chernyshov in full, according to the Supreme Court of Criminal Appeals decision. Later, the "Schemes" project found out that Chernyshov's wife Svitlana posted UAH 10 million, Daria Bedya, the marketing director of DIM (Development Investment Management), contributed UAH 44 million, and Foravto Tor LLC - UAH 66 million.