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The public image of People's Deputy Hennadii Vatsak, founder of the confectionery business "Vatsak", is accompanied by numerous questions regarding his financial status. Although his official declaration lists a collection of expensive cars, the actual scale of his transport assets proved to be significantly broader. Journalists established that, in addition to personal vehicles, the confectionery company "Vatsak" itself has a Rolls-Royce Ghost (2022 model) and a Lamborghini Urus (2021 model) registered to it.
Research showed that the businessman may also use other elite automobiles that formally belong to third parties in his circle. Specifically, the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera, in which Vatsak previously received a fine for speeding, belongs to a person listed in phone directories as an administrator of the "Vatsak" store chain.
Another block of the car fleet is linked to the family of the MP's assistant and overseas branches of his business. Members of the assistant's family own a Bentley Continental GT and a Maserati Levante. Meanwhile, a Rolls-Royce Spectre (2024 model), at the wheel of which a man resembling Hennadii Vatsak was observed, is registered to a woman connected to an overseas branch of his confectionery business. Estimates suggest that the total value of the identified vehicles reaches $3.5 million.
In 2025, the Economic Security Bureau (ESB) notified Valerii Tvordokhlib, director of the "Vatsak" communal enterprise, of suspicion. He was charged with evading the payment of over 29 million hryvnia in taxes. The mechanics of the violation involved the company selling products to controlled individual entrepreneurs (IEs) at artificially lowered prices and then recovering the funds. Subsequently, the director was released from criminal liability.
Journalists verified this scheme by purchasing goods in a "Vatsak" store. The fiscal receipt indicates IE Olha Alyksiychuk from Mohyliv-Podilskyi district. On the Getcontact service, her contact number is listed, among other things, as the accountant for companies associated with the People's Deputy.
A separate line of investigation concerns the resource businesses of the Vatsak family. The People's Deputy owns LLC "Production Complex Camelot", while his relative Yevdokia Vatsak owns LLC "Crushing and Sorting Complex 'Lancelot'". Both entities received special permits for the use of subsoil in Vinnytsia Oblast. Journalists analysed five plots associated with these companies, at least four of which were involved in criminal proceedings.
The most high-profile case concerns the Mohyliv-Podilskyi sandstone plot. In 2020, "Camelot" received a permit only for geological exploration with pilot industrial development, yet it actually carried out full-scale extraction. In July, law enforcement agencies notified the enterprise head of suspicion of illegally extracting nearly 38,000 tonnes of sandstone. The damage to the state was estimated at over 337 million hryvnia. According to data from the State Geological Information Fund, as of the beginning of 2026, mineral reserves on this plot had still not been approved, despite this being a mandatory condition of the work programme.
Previously, "Camelot" director Volodymyr Polyak already had a guilty verdict for illegal mineral extraction causing damage of over 3 million hryvnia. He claimed he had organised the work without the owner's knowledge, which, according to journalists' assessment, appears doubtful.
Law enforcement officers also investigated activities at "Camelot's" Ozarynetska and Nemiyiska plots. Specifically, this involved industrial extraction that contradicted the terms of the special permit, as well as work carried out beyond the permitted area. Questions also arose regarding the activities of "Lancelot". This company, owned by the MP's relative, acquired the right to industrial extraction at the Ozaryntsi-2 deposit for 147,000 hryvnia, which is approximately 89% cheaper than the auction's starting price. Although the work programme stipulated that extraction was to begin at the end of 2023, as early as August 2022, law enforcement were investigating possible violations of the permit conditions.
Additionally, the Nemiyisko-Yurkovetske deposit, owned by "Lancelot", received a warning from the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources due to its proximity to the "Hrabarkivskyi" landscape reserve. Despite these circumstances, the State Subsoil Agency (Derzhgeonadra) did not conduct inspections of the activities of the aforementioned subsoil users throughout the entire period from 2019 to 2026.
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