Brother of GBR director received 143 real estate properties from a developer later investigated by the GBR

Oleksandr Sukhachev, the biological brother of State Bureau of Investigations director Oleksiy Sukhachev, acquired 143 apartments and offices in two Kharkiv residential complexes developed by Stroy Siti between 2018 and 2020 — at prices incompatible with market rates.

The investigation was prepared by journalists Alina Stryzhak (CPC) and Maksym Savchuk (Slidstvo.Info), but the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv banned them from publishing it. The text was passed to other outlets as part of “Initiative 143” — an act of solidarity by Ukrainian media figures.

Oleksandr Sukhachev is just over six years older than his brother. According to open-source data and social media, he is originally from Kharkiv. Between 2007 and 2015 he was registered as a sole proprietor with a business profile of “rental of real estate,” and also worked as a manager and occasionally held stakes in private companies. According to the Nashi Hroshi website, in 2023 he worked in the security service of Ukrzaliznytsia in Kyiv, and in photographs from 2025 he can be found among the staff of the state-owned Ukrgasbank.

A detailed property report on Oleksandr Sukhachev from the State Register of Real Rights runs to 155 pages. According to the register, in 2018 he became the owner of 40% of the properties in a residential apartment building in Kharkiv at 13 Yuliia Chyhyryna Street — the IT-Park Manufactura residential complex developed by Stroy Siti. In 2019, the developer was offering apartments in this complex at an average price of around €698 per square metre.

However, Oleksandr Sukhachev was buying the real estate not at market prices but at book value. On 9 July 2018, through two transactions, he acquired 30 apartments: the price of each ranged from 24,600 to 48,900 hryvnias, which at the exchange rate of the time amounted to between $932 and $1,856. For all 30 apartments, the brother of then-deputy head of the General Prosecutor’s Office department Oleksiy Sukhachev paid a combined total of just over one million hryvnias (at the time, $39,300). Two days later he bought a further 28 apartments, spending less than $33,000: the cheapest cost 26,500 hryvnias and the most expensive 38,700 hryvnias. Part of the real estate — 11 apartments — Oleksandr Sukhachev purchased directly from Stroy Siti owner Yehor Maslennikov, also for a nominal sum.

It was precisely the details of these transactions that proved sensitive for the seller, the company Parkovyi-2 LLC. After receiving a request from journalist Alina Stryzhak, the company turned to the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv. Judge Serhiy Vovk banned Stryzhak, Slidstvo.Info, and the Centre for Countering Corruption from disseminating information about Oleksandr Sukhachev’s property, contracts, and investments. On 13 July, Parkovyi-2 filed a lawsuit insisting that “information about real estate and concluded contracts is part of the private life of an individual and constitutes a commercial secret of the developer.”

The story has another dimension — the developer’s connection to GBR investigations. At the time of the apartment purchases in 2018, Parkovyi-2 LLC was owned by lawyer Ivan Kozykov, and it subsequently became linked to Stroy Siti through Liudmyla Ryabykh — the sister of Yehor Maslennikov’s wife. In December 2024, journalists from Ukrainska Pravda spotted Maslennikov in Monte Carlo next to an expensive Rolls-Royce.

Oleksandr Sukhachev’s connection to the developer can be traced not only through the apartment purchases. According to the court decisions register, in 2021 officers of the National Police conducted searches at Stroy Siti’s offices while investigating the possible illegality of construction projects following a report from the SBU. During the searches, seals belonging to firms that were or had previously been owned directly by Oleksandr Sukhachev were discovered, along with financial documentation of a company of which he was the owner. This included buildings at the addresses where Oleksandr Sukhachev had purchased real estate.

In December 2022, the deputy prosecutor general transferred the investigation of this case to the GBR’s main investigative department. For a time, the bureau handled a case in which a company allegedly linked to their director’s brother was involved, yet no suspicion was ever formally declared against anyone. Subsequently, according to Bihus.Info, Maslennikov transferred the construction business to his wife’s sister and opened a new one in Dubai. Last August, the proceedings concerning the unauthorized constructions were transferred to the police of Chernihiv Oblast, where they were closed. The proceedings were resumed after the individuals mentioned in the investigation received information requests from journalists.

As of today, Oleksandr Sukhachev has ceased to own almost all 143 apartments and offices. Journalists were unable to reach him — he did not respond to calls or inquiries.

In response to a journalists’ request, the GBR stated that neither they nor their director possess “information about any facts of Sukhachev Oleksandr Oleksandrovych’s participation in any economic activity, including with the developer Stroy Siti, or his acquisition of any real estate.” On the question of the pre-trial investigation into the developer’s actions, the GBR replied that they had not made any decision to close the proceedings, and emphasized that the authority to assign a pre-trial investigation to an investigator of another body lies with the prosecutor’s office.