Fugitive Komarnytskyi Found in Vienna by Journalists

Businessman and former Kyiv City Council member Denys Komarnytskyi has been found in Vienna, Austria, where he is hiding from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. He is currently wanted.

The suspect was found by journalists from Ukrainska Pravda and tried to get a comment from him. During a personal meeting with the UP journalist, Komarnytskyi refused to answer questions and promised to provide a comment later. The suspect did not comment on his departure from Ukraine, and called the investigation “political persecution.”

According to the UP, law enforcement agencies are currently investigating the involvement of border guards, intelligence representatives, and law enforcement agencies in Komarnytsky's departure abroad, since he did not officially cross the border. The businessman allegedly initially hid in Kyiv and the region, and on February 16, he somehow ended up in Romania.

Denys Komarnytskyi is a figure in the EBK database.

We will remind, on February 6, 2025, it became known that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau was conducting investigative actions against businessman Denys Komarnytskyi.

Later, the NABU press service reported that the Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office "are conducting a large-scale operation "Clean City" to expose a criminal organization involved in land corruption in the Kyiv City Council."

As part of this case, the Supreme Court of Ukraine remanded Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Petro Olenych in custody for two months and set him on bail of UAH 15 million. The Head of the Land Commission Mykhailo Terentyev was also given a preventive measure - two months of detention with the possibility of bail of almost UAH 20 million.

On February 10, it became known that Komarnytskyi was trying to leave the territory of Ukraine, and law enforcement officers were taking measures to detain him.