This building is a former city boiler. And now — commercial premises almost in the very center of Irpin. It used to be community property, today it is private property. And it was this structure that was at the center of criminal proceedings.
Ivan Varanytsia, prosecutor:
“Markushin, abusing power, that is, intentionally, in order to obtain illegal benefits for himself, illegally removed the land plot and the building in the center of the city of Irpin from communal property.”
How did it happen that communal property ended up in private hands? And what does the former Irpin Oleksandr Markushin have to do with it? We tried to figure it out.
2019 year. Oleksandr Markushyn is the first deputy mayor. His personal assistant is Ruslana Lavrenyuk. She is always there, performs all the errands: work and personal.
Ruslana Lavrenyuk, Oleksandr Markushyn’s former personal assistant:
“I held all the yard meetings with him, kept all his pages on social networks, photographed him at meetings, wrote him posts. I actually dealt with all his questions. She carried out all the tasks that concerned his parents, his children.”
So when Lavrenyuk received another call from the boss, she didn’t ask questions, she did everything he asked. And without knowing it, she became the first owner of this land plot.
Ruslana Lavrenyuk, Oleksandr Markushyn’s former personal assistant:
“Once Oleksandr Markushin asked me to send him my personal documents: passport, code, which I did. Since he was my supervisor, I did not ask questions: he instructed me to send the documents, I sent them to him. After that, I found out that I had a land plot.”
The fact is that it is impossible to re-register the land on which there is a communal building. So, in order to get the plot, Markushin had to get rid of the boiler house.
Serhii Kanyura, Head of the Department of Infrastructure Development, Investments and Housing and Communal Services of the IMR:
“The land plot that was under this structure was actually supposed to be used exclusively by a municipal enterprise. Since the communal property was located on a land plot, no one else could use it and take it into private ownership without a decision to write it off.
To circumvent this requirement, the then director of the Teploenergopostach checkpoint, Arthur Zahodirenko, appeals to the Irpin City Council with a request to write off the boiler house. An act is attached to the appeal, which states: “The basic assets are morally obsolete, physically worn out, have used their production resource.”
And in a month, the council grants permission to write off, dismantle and sell materials. However, in reality, this did not happen.
Ruslana Lavrenyuk, Oleksandr Markushyn’s former personal assistant:
“At the time of the allocation of the land plot to me, the boiler building was not dismantled, as the documents assumed, it was reconstructed. I just knew that the reconstruction was going on, but I didn’t delve into the documents and didn’t understand it.”
This is confirmed by the lack of relevant documents.
Serhii Kanyura, Head of the Department of Infrastructure Development, Investments and Housing and Communal Services of the IMR:
“After the owner, that is, the Irpin City Council, makes a decision to write off fixed assets, a report on the write-off of a particular KP asset must be submitted to the Department of Infrastructure Development of Investments and housing and housing and Utal Services within two or three months. As far as is known, even as of now, during this entire period, which is six years, these measures have not been carried out by the company. Therefore, we can say that the dismantling of the specified object, namely the boiler building, was not carried out and in fact the object continued to exist.
Thus, the former boiler house turned into a commercial object in just a few months. And the profit from his rent did not go to the community budget, but directly to Oleksandr Markushyn’s pocket.
Ruslana Lavrenyuk, Oleksandr Markushyn’s former personal assistant:
“According to Oleksandr Markushyn’s instructions, I was looking for tenants for this premises. For some time there was a hair studio and a manicure salon. They paid me the rent in cash, which I then gave to Markushin.”
When the business is already working steadily, Markushin decides to re-register it for his god.
Ruslana Lavrenyuk, Oleksandr Markushyn’s former personal assistant:
“He instructed me to go to his already late wife Natalia, who worked as a notary, and sign a contract for the sale of the land plot and the building on the former Griboyedov Street, his coddent Lyudmila Gaina. One part of this building belonged to her, the other part, the second floor, belonged to Olga Kurovska. Her father is also already deceased, unfortunately, he was a good friend of Oleksandr Grigorych Markushyn.”
Currently, the legal owners of the business remain the same people close to Markushyn. In particular, and his cuman Lyudmila Gaina. Her family has direct ties to the exmer. Lyudmila herself is the founder of DIVANCHIK LLC. During Markushyn’s tenure, this enterprise received 126 budget payments “for furniture” in the total amount of about six million hryvnias. Her son, Pavlo, is the director of MAG-13 LLC, Markushyn’s advertising business. And the Husband – Serhii Haina during the mayorship of Oleksandr Hryhorovych fulfilled contract orders from the Irpin budget.
Despite the announced suspicion and the open criminal case, Oleksandr Markushyn denies his involvement in this story in the courtroom.
Oleksandr Markushyn, ex-mer of Irpin:
“I agree with the lawyers that the suspicion is not 100% justified and at all I do not understand what I am doing in this case. Some building was written off by a municipal enterprise, I was not a member of the commission, I was not the mayor at that time. They say that Markushin is involved in something. No, I’ll definitely say I’m not involved in this.”
Currently, a pre-trial investigation is ongoing in this case. Oleksandr Markushyn faces three to six years in prison with confiscation of property.
The premises of the former boiler room are still rented. Now here is the office of the Bureau of Technical Inventory. But what future awaits this building, it is difficult to say. As ITV journalists learned, on October 13, 2025, DTEK Kyiv Electric Networks established that Lyudmyla Gaina carried out systemic electricity thefts for commercial consumption of tenants. Therefore, it is not excluded that this object will be elpt in other criminal cases.