Komarnytskyi, suspect in fraud case, fled abroad

Former Kyiv City Council deputy Denys Komarnytskyi, whom law enforcement officers suspect of creating and managing a criminal organization with the aim of seizing land in the capital, has left abroad, Ukrainka Pravda reports.

According to the UP source in law enforcement agencies, at the time of the NABU and SAPO operation "Clean City" he was in Ukraine. Then he fled abroad. And is currently wanted by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

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.

Denys Komarnytskyi is a figure in the EBK database.