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The grandmother of an SBU investigator spent nearly 20 million hryvnias on property in Kyiv

The grandmother of an SBU investigator spent nearly 20 million hryvnias on property in Kyiv

24 June 2026, 17:00

The grandmother of an SBU investigator spent nearly 20 million hryvnias on property in Kyiv — Dmytro Voitenko, an investigator with the SBU’s Main Investigation Directorate

Over a three-year period — from 2021 to 2023 — Maria Yermolenko from Kremenchuk, who is now 79 years old, officially purchased property in Kyiv and in the vicinity of the capital worth almost 20 million hryvnias. The telephone number and email address listed in her business registration belong to her grandson — Dmytro Voitenko, an investigator with the Security Service of Ukraine’s Main Investigation Directorate. When asked about the source of the funds, he replied: ‘Well, that’s not really known.’

This is according to an investigation by hromadske.

In September 2021, Maria Yermolenko purchased a 255-square-metre house on Zahrebelny Street in the Pechersk district of the capital, officially for 5.2 million hryvnias.

In 2021, this very same property was publicly listed for sale at over 18 million hryvnias.

In the same year, 2021, Yermolenko invested a further 4.6 million hryvnias in a flat in the Edelweiss House business-class residential complex in Pechersk. Also in 2021, she acquired the property rights to a flat in the River Stone residential complex on the banks of the Dnipro.

At the time, the minimum market value of such a property was over 3.5 million hryvnias, but Yermolenko paid almost three times less.

In September 2023, a part of a property complex in Katerynivka, near Kyiv, was added to this list: three plots of land totalling 27 sotok and a 790-square-metre estate, purchased from ‘TD “Poltavanaftoprodukt”’ LLC — a company with indirect links to the Russian firm ‘Tatneft’. Officially, the part of the residence allocated to Maria Yermolenko cost 7.8 million hryvnias.

Maria Yermolenko’s sole trader business, established for the ‘letting and management of immovable property’, was set up in March 2017. Journalists therefore became curious about what she actually does and where her money comes from. In a telephone conversation with hromadske, Dmytro Voitenko’s mother and Maria Yermolenko’s daughter, Olga, explained that they had registered the sole trader business in their mother’s name and had gradually invested money in various properties to let them out.

The SBU investigator Dmytro Voitenko himself does not own any property; his declarations are classified. In November 2024, he purchased a 2024 Volkswagen Tiguan, the market value of which was around 40 thousand dollars. When asked where he lives, given the amount of property his grandmother owns, the investigator replied that the SBU had provided him with a place in a hall of residence.

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