An employee of the State Bureau of Investigations did not return the service apartment to the prosecutor’s office

An employee of the State Bureau of Investigations did not return the service apartment to the prosecutor’s office

Since 2017, Oleksandr Hovorushchak (who was then an employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office) has indicated in declarations that he lives in an apartment with an area of 76.5 square meters in the Kyiv residential complex "Vynohradar," built in the same year. As journalists note, a similar apartment now costs over four million hryvnias.

According to Slidstvo.Info, Hovorushchak joined the prosecutor’s office in 2011, and eight years later, he failed an attestation and was dismissed. In 2021, an appellate court declared the decision invalid: the official was reinstated and paid 1.5 million hryvnias in compensation. By that time, Hovorushchak had already been working at the State Bureau of Investigation (presumably since 2020).

In 2022, the Supreme Court of Ukraine ruled that Hovorushchak is entitled to compensation of 395 thousand instead of 1.5 million hryvnias. As reported to investigators at the Prosecutor General’s Office, the official did not return the difference — moreover, he likely received both amounts.

As it turned out, in 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office paid Hovorushchak an additional 1.8 million hryvnias in compensation for unused vacation, delay in payments upon dismissal, and so on. Overall, Oleksandr Hovorushchak received 3.7 million hryvnias from the authorities.

Last month, journalists revealed that Oleksandr Hovorushchak’s family acquired assets worth approximately 850 thousand dollars over recent years. His wife Kateryna, who is responsible for staff selection and training at the State Bureau of Investigation, became the owner of a plot and a house in the suburbs of Kyiv in 2023. According to her declaration, the house, with an area of 146 square meters, cost around 35 thousand dollars, and the land plot — almost 73 thousand. According to neighbors, the Hovorushchak family moved there in the summer of 2024.

Investigators found that Kateryna’s parents also acquired significant assets in recent years: since their son-in-law joined the State Bureau of Investigation in 2020, Lyudmyla and Kostyantyn Vyali spent almost 500 thousand dollars on real estate and vehicles.

However, as journalists discovered, Hovorushchak did not return the service apartment in "Vynohradar" to the authorities. When asked why the Hovorushchak family still uses the service apartment despite having their own property, the Prosecutor General’s Office replied that the Kyiv City Council had not received information regarding a change in their registration, and according to the housing code, people who have worked in the department for over ten years cannot be evicted without having another residence.