Position: Director of the CE "Architectural and Planning Bureau" (APB-IF).
Sphere of corruption activity: construction.
Region of corruption activity: Ivano-Frankivsk.
Qualification: actions are qualified under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Status: is in custody.
Case story: On May 26, 2026, three high-ranking officials were exposed in Ivano-Frankivsk who were making money from permitting documentation for developers. The discovery of the scheme was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Ruslan Kravchenko.
According to him, officials of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, together with the head of a specialized utility company, turned the issuance of permits into a "paid service" for entrepreneurs and developers.
The scheme was organized by an official of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture - the chief architect of the city, an official of the Department for State Architectural and Construction Control, and the director of the CE, which is engaged in the development of urban planning, design, and land management documentation in Ivano-Frankivsk.
It is known that the position of the chief architect of Ivano-Frankivsk is occupied by Ihor Musilovsky. The Ivano-Frankivsk regional prosecutor's office specified that the second suspect is the head of the state architectural and construction control department. This position is occupied by Oleh Semkiv. The website "Galka" reported the name of the third suspect - this is the director of the CE "Architectural and Planning Bureau" (APB-IF) Hryhoriy Kachan.
City council officials acted as direct organizers and executors of the necessary decisions. The director of the utility company played the role of the main contact point and facilitator, he personally met with "clients", announced the established "fees", convinced applicants of the inevitability of payment and directly collected cash.
The Prosecutor General pointed out that the participants in the scheme took money from businessmen twice: for issuing urban planning conditions and restrictions on the development of land plots, as well as for adopting decisions on registering notifications of the start of construction work. In addition, they guaranteed entrepreneurs assistance in the further registration of leased communal land under real estate objects into private ownership.
The facts of their criminal activity are clearly documented, in particular, the extortion and receipt of bribes worth $26,000: $10,000 from a local businesswoman for construction passports for three plots, $5,000 from a representative of a chain of construction supermarkets for urban planning conditions and restrictions for one plot, as well as two tranches of $8,000 and $3,000 from a construction company for similar permits and registration of the start of construction.
All three participants in the scheme were detained. They were informed of suspicion of receiving unlawful benefit (Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). In addition, the director of the CE was charged with aiding and abetting the specified crime. A petition to the court is being prepared to appoint a preventive measure in the form of detention for all three.
On May 28, the Ivano-Frankivsk City Court sentenced three officials suspected of corruption in the construction sector to preventive measures. The court sentenced the director of the municipal enterprise "Architectural and Planning Bureau" Hryhoriy Kachan, the chief architect of Ivano-Frankivsk Ihor Musilovskyi, and the director of the city department of state architectural and construction control Oleh Semkiv to 60 days in custody with the possibility of bail.
The judge decided to apply a preventive measure to the suspect Hryhoriy Kachan - detention until July 23, 2026 with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 5 million hryvnias. The court also decided to keep Ihor Musilovsky in custody until July 23, 2026, including the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 2 million hryvnias. Later, a preventive measure was chosen for the director of the Department for State Architectural and Construction Control, Oleg Semkiv: the judge ordered the suspect to be detained for up to 60 days with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 5 million 200 thousand hryvnias. The officials were taken into custody in the courtroom.
On June 1, the chief architect of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ihor Musilovsky, was released from pre-trial detention after posting 2 million hryvnia bail.
Later, on June 3, the head of the Department of State Architectural and Construction Control of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, Oleh Semkiv, also left the pre-trial detention center after posting bail of 5 million 200 thousand hryvnias.
At the same time, as is known, Hryhoriy Kachan still remains in custody.\
Persons potentially involved in the corruption schemes: in addition to Kachan, the scheme also involves the head of the State Architectural and Construction Control Department, Oleg Semkiv, and the first deputy director of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, the chief architect of the city, Ihor Musilovsky.
Assets: In 2025, Hryhoriy Kachan declared 666,429 hryvnias in salary from the municipal production enterprise "Architectural and Planning Bureau-IF" and 280,850 hryvnias in pension. His wife Nadiya Kachan received 51,620 hryvnias in pension and 1,000 hryvnias in "Winter Support".
In 1996, the official purchased a land plot with an area of 2,080 square meters in the village of Vovchynets. In 2005, he bought a house with an area of 437.8 square meters. In 2020, a land plot with an area of 1,883 square meters. His wife, Nadiya Kachan, bought an apartment with an area of 63.2 square meters in the village of Vovchynets for 152,300 hryvnias in 2017. In 2004, she purchased a land plot with an area of 533 square meters in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 2021, Hryhoriy Kachan bought a Mercedes-Benz for 422,241 hryvnias. The car is a 2015 model.
Persons who should have reacted: law enforcement agencies responded to the criminal scheme in a timely manner, handing over suspicions to all its participants.
Scandals: before the corruption scheme, he was not noticed as a figure in other scandals.
Sources:
https://zaxid.net/desyat_tisyach_dolariv_za_pidpis_n1638813
https://public.nazk.gov.ua/documents/4f3d8c61-868b-4d98-86fa-d5d8667c99ef