Ex-prosecutor general Kravchenko’s mother-in-law invested about €585,000 in a Dubai villa — Skhemy

Alina Shkrobanets, the former mother-in-law of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, invested approximately $670,000 (about €585,000) in the construction of a villa in Dubai in July 2023.

This was uncovered by journalists from Skhemy — a Radio Free Europe project — using data from the Dubai real estate registry.

The property in question is a townhouse of more than 143 square meters in the Damac Lagoons residential complex. According to registry data, on July 20, 2023, Shkrobanets invested approximately $670,000 in the property — at the time equivalent to roughly 24.5 million hryvnias (about €478,000) at the official National Bank of Ukraine exchange rate. The seller was Island Oasis Properties, a UAE-based development and construction company. Construction of the property has not yet been completed.

On that same day — July 20, 2023 — Alina Shkrobanets’s daughter Yelena, who was then Kravchenko’s wife, resigned from the Office of the Prosecutor General. That date is indicated in her asset declaration. At the time of the investment, Ruslan Kravchenko was heading the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

In November 2024, Kravchenko and Yelena Shkrobanets officially divorced. In the summer of 2025, Kravchenko was appointed head of the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Also in 2025, the Dubai villa changed hands. According to a data leak and the official registry of the Dubai Land Department, Alina Shkrobanets sold it to a Ukrainian national, Andriy Keybash — the manager of the Kyiv restaurant La Veranda. Journalists established that Keybash had been acquainted with the Shkrobanets family before this transaction. In a video published on La Veranda’s Instagram page in December 2022, Alina Shkrobanets, her husband Ihor, daughter Yelena, and Andriy Keybash are seen together at the restaurant. Another video from the same period shows Ihor Shkrobanets at the establishment together with Ruslan Kravchenko, who at the time headed the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv Oblast. Ihor Shkrobanets told journalists that it was Kravchenko who had once introduced him to Keybash.

Alina Shkrobanets denied purchasing real estate in the UAE, suggesting that someone may have used her personal data without her knowledge. She did not explain who could have done so. She confirmed her acquaintance with Keybash but stated that she had never discussed real estate with him. According to her, she has had no contact with Ruslan Kravchenko for more than two years and he had not approached her regarding the purchase or registration of any property.

Keybash, for his part, confirmed to Skhemy that in 2025 he purchased the villa for approximately $670,000 (about €585,000), but denied buying it directly from Alina Shkrobanets. According to him, he saw an investment offer online, followed a link, and communicated with a manager. Keybash was unable to name from whom exactly he purchased the property. He agreed to check the transaction documents but subsequently stopped responding to journalists.

Alina Shkrobanets’s husband Ihor is a deputy of the Chernivtsi Regional Council. According to Skhemy, he was required to declare the Dubai property in which his wife had invested, but it is absent from his financial disclosures. The deputy himself told journalists that he had known nothing about his wife’s purchase of real estate in the UAE, and also suggested that her personal data may have been used by third parties. Alina Shkrobanets’s daughter Yelena did not answer journalists’ phone calls, writing in a message: “Unfortunately, I know nothing about this.” At the time the investigation was published, Skhemy was also attempting to obtain a comment from Ruslan Kravchenko.

On September 7, Kravchenko submitted his resignation as prosecutor general amid an investigation by NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) into the alleged “protection” of a network of fraudulent call centers. On September 14, he announced that he had signed a notice of suspicion against NABU Director Semen Kryvonos — for forgery of official documents with the aim of obtaining unlawful gain and for fictitious adoption — stating that he had previously refrained from this decision due to “political” pressure from Zelensky. President Zelensky stated that Kravchenko must leave the post of prosecutor general, called on the Verkhovna Rada to support his dismissal, and suspended Kravchenko from his duties. It subsequently emerged that Kravchenko had traveled abroad, ostensibly on a work trip, having first refused his personal security detail. On September 22, it became known that the former prosecutor general had refused to return to Ukraine and had resigned from the prosecutorial service.