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The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv ruled to seize items recently removed from a private house in the capital. This property is under investigation due to its connection with former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. This became known from a court ruling dated 23 September.
The property is located on Dobrovolych Batallioniv Street in the Pechersk district. The formal owner of the house is the Dutch company "Stichting Global Investment", which the investigation links to the former minister. According to law enforcement, in 2012–2013, the official's and his family's assets (apartments, land plots, and houses) were artificially re-registered to foreign companies to conceal actual ownership.
In 2019, the asset seizure was lifted because one of the Ukrainian entrepreneurs convinced the court that he had no connection to Zakharchenko. However, the restrictions were later reinstated, as an investigator from the General Prosecutor's Office proved close ties between this businessman and the former minister. It turned out that since 2012, this man had worked as Zakharchenko's advisor.
Currently, the property officially remains under seizure and has been transferred to the management of the Agency for the Recovery and Management of Assets (ARMA). During 2021–2024, the agency held competitions to select managers, but no winner was determined. The Dutch owner firm attempted to challenge the seizure, citing a lease agreement dated 1 September 2021. However, the court noted that the house was rented out after the seizure was imposed with a ban on disposing of the property.
The State Bureau of Investigation has been investigating a criminal case regarding the failure to comply with court decisions since 2024. In the course of the case, it emerged that certain properties linked to Zakharchenko are being rented out in violation of the court seizure, without proper legal documentation and tax payments.
In November 2024, the SBI obtained permission from an investigating judge to access ARMA documents, personnel files, and job descriptions of employees responsible for managing this property. Also, in November 2025, during the selection of a preventive measure, it came to light that former Energy and Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko, whom the NABU suspects of corruption, allegedly secretly lived in this house for a certain period. ARMA officially denied handing keys to Halushchenko.
Acting head of ARMA Yaroslava Maksymenko explained that the agency did not establish physical control over the house and did not take the keys to avoid costs associated with its maintenance.
On 1 April 2026, employees of the Central Interregional Territorial Directorate of ARMA inspected the house. They found about ten men whose identities were not established. One of them stated that they were living there based on a sublease agreement dated 26 January 2026, concluded with an individual. Meanwhile, it was established that the Ukrainian citizen who allegedly rented out the house left the country in early April 2022 and did not return. This indicates the possible use of false documents.
The court ruling states that the actions of officials, representatives, and beneficial owners of "Stichting Global Investment", as well as tenants and subtenants, bear signs of criminal offences provided for by parts 2–3 of Article 382 and part 1 of Article 388 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The criminality lies in obstructing the execution of an investigating judge's ruling and violating the restriction on the right to use the homestead.
According to a report dated 6 April 2026, the selection of a manager is hindered by the presence of a large amount of movable property inside the house (furniture, household appliances, equipment), which is subject to additional seizure. In July 2026, the court granted the SBI access to data on electricity consumption in the house for 2021–2026 and payment histories.
On 9 September 2026, SBI officers conducted a search. During the inspection, they found a fiscal receipt from LLC "Masmarket" dated 6 September 2026, a receipt from "ATB-Market" dated 8 September 2026, and a Novus supermarket sticker on a chilled turkey wing packaged on 18 August 2026. In addition, they found more than a dozen sets of keys.
A prosecutor from the Office of the Prosecutor General applied to the court with a motion to seize furniture and household appliances (sofas, chairs, kitchen and bedroom sets, refrigerator, washing machines, etc.). The document states that the ruling on the transfer of assets to ARMA management cannot be properly executed, as Zakharchenko and his advisor, who, according to the investigation, helped minimise income, evade taxes, and launder funds, are actually continuing to use the property through controlled persons.
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