Andriy Kavetskyi, 42-year-old head of the main department of the State Geocadastre in Lviv Oblast, can be considered a lucky man. Having quickly risen through the classic career path of an industry official, he landed a position that allows him to decide who gets state land. So, Andriy Kavetskyi.
Andrey Kavetsky
During his nearly 10 years in this position, Andrei Kavetsky was involved in three land-related criminal cases, and three attempts were made to fire him—each time unsuccessfully. For years, he failed to declare any personal assets, only reporting the substantial earnings of his wife, a businesswoman. And he got away with it, too.
However, two weeks ago, his luck changed: he was detained while attempting to give $30 to a NAPC officer after a positive result was found in a monitoring study of him and those associated with him.
What did Andriy Kavetskyi really want to hide, what drove him to take such a desperate step? NGL.media managed to peer a little deeper into the modest and unremarkable life of Lviv's main landowner. Everything there is almost classic: business, a wealthy mother-in-law, generous friends, and plenty of luck.
Andrey Kavetsky. What happened?
The State Bureau of Investigation's press release, published after Andriy Kavetsky's arrest, noted that the NACP began monitoring his lifestyle late last year. Although this was a covert procedure, Kavetsky learned of the investigation some time later.
"In June 2026, the head of the regional State Geocadastre began persistently seeking a personal meeting with the head of one of the NACP departments. During the meeting in Lviv, he offered the agency official $30 for the desired monitoring result. Trying to conceal the content of the conversation, the man wrote the bribe amount with a pen on a napkin , " the State Bureau of Investigation reported.
The NAPC officer informed his superiors and the State Bureau of Investigation investigators of this proposal, so the money transfer during the next meeting took place under their supervision. After Kavetsky handed over the money—for some reason, in a whiskey tube—he was immediately detained and charged with bribery. On July 29, the court remanded him in custody with the option to post bail in the amount of 89,8 million hryvnias.
This arrest followed nearly 20 years of work by Andriy Kavetsky in the land sector, half of which was spent as head of the main department of the State Geocadastre in Lviv Oblast.
Andrey Kavetsky: A Brilliant Career, Criminal Cases, and Secrecy
Andriy Kavetskyi was born in the village of Mlyniv in the Rivne region, but lived his entire adult life in the suburbs of Lviv. Interestingly, he didn't have an identification code until at least the age of 27, due to his religious beliefs.
According to information on the Lviv State Geocadastre website, Kavetskyi is a typical career civil servant in this field. He graduated from Lviv Agricultural University with degrees in land management and cadastral surveying and finance, and immediately began working as a land surveyor.
In 2011, Andriy Kavetskyi took a job as an engineer at the Lviv branch of the State Land Cadastre Center. Initially, he started as an engineer, but later became the head of this branch of the state-owned enterprise.
In 2015, Andriy Kavetskyi won the relevant competition and, with the approval of then-chairman of the Lviv Regional State Administration, Oleh Synyutka, became head of the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Lviv Oblast. His tenure in this position was marked by constant corruption cases and an equally impressive ability to escape unscathed. A typical example is the story of his first resignation. Yes, it was not the only one, but more on that later.
At the end of 2016, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against Kavetsky and he was suspended from his position for two months. He then submitted a letter of resignation, but six months later he appealed his dismissal in court, claiming he had submitted the letter under duress. The legal proceedings dragged on for two and a half years until a settlement was reached , and Andrey Kavetsky returned to his position.
However, a month later, he was fired again—this time forcibly, due to a criminal case involving an attempt to illegally transfer land near Lviv to private ownership. Once again, Kavetsky managed to regain his position through the courts, as his management had committed procedural errors during the dismissal.
The case that led to Kavetsky's second dismissal was one of the most high-profile during his tenure. He was accused of attempting to illegally transfer approximately 27 hectares of land in the Lviv suburbs from municipal ownership to private hands. The land's value was estimated at 113 million hryvnias. However, the case fell apart in court, in part due to the Zimnovodovsk community, which initiated the criminal case, withdrawing its claims against Kavetsky. In November 2024, a Lviv court acquitted Kavetsky. Incidentally, the land was successfully returned to the Zimnovodovsk community's municipal ownership, although attempts to privatize it continue.
The Zimnyaya Voda case isn't the only one involving Andriy Kavetskyi. Two other cases concerned the management of land in the Skole and Turkiv districts of the Lviv region. Some of the prosecution's evidence in these cases was deemed inadmissible due to violations of search procedures. Therefore, Kavetskyi was acquitted in these cases as well.
Another high-profile case involving the Lviv State Geocadastre concerns the transfer of a plot of land on the outskirts of Lviv, where a new street was planned, to Bohdan Dubnevych's son-in-law. However, it was not Andriy Kavetskyi himself who was charged with this crime , but his subordinate, Vasyl Sobko, head of the department for land use and protection control.
So, what have we learned so far about Andrey Kavetsky? Ten years in office with several breaks, three acquittals, and three unsuccessful attempts to dismiss him. And on top of that – absolute secrecy and caution.
Andriy Kavetskyi never attended meetings of the relevant parliamentary land commission and ignored calls to report to the deputies at the Lviv Regional Council session. For all accusations of abuse, the deputies received written replies, often signed by Kavetskyi's subordinates.
It was precisely because of this behavior that the Lviv Regional Council initiated Kavetsky's third dismissal in 2021. This time, the reason was his failure to implement one of the decentralization reform requirements—the transfer of land outside populated areas to territorial communities.
"The actions of the State Geocadastre of the Lviv Oblast cast doubt on the decentralization reform, as officials are abusing transparency in the transfer of land to territorial communities and delaying the process , " commented Yuriy Radelitzky, chairman of the regional council's relevant parliamentary commission.
Now, five years later, Radelitsky recalls that they were unable to secure Kavetsky's release due to a lack of parliamentary votes.
"There were constant issues of land privatization; every community had problems. Even law enforcement was constantly at work; there were some crimes, " the deputy recounts. "We summoned him to the session to report on all land issues. But he arranged a business trip and didn't show up, and then we couldn't get enough votes to bring the issue up for future sessions [...] He had no desire to come or provide information, and the issue was constantly blocked . "
Forgotten property and generous friends
Despite his obvious reluctance to be publicly known, Andrey Kavetsky couldn't ignore the obligation to submit income declarations electronically. Nevertheless, until 2023, he filed nearly empty declarations: no housing, land, or vehicles. He only reported income: his own and his wife's, along with substantial savings, mostly in cash. He was fortunate, however, as his declarations were never subject to a full audit by the NACP . However, it's clear that concealing his assets was a deliberate decision.
In his 2023 declaration, Kavetskyi indicated for the first time that he was not living on the street. It turned out that he was registered at his parents' apartment in the village of Mlyniv in the Rivne region, but lived with his family in a small one-room apartment in Lviv belonging to his wife's brother.
The following year, he declared another two-story residential building with an attic in the village of Solonka, a suburb of Lviv, which had belonged to his mother-in-law, Olga Moroz, since 2004. In 2024, she transferred half of the house to her daughter, Kateryna Kavetska. Kateryna Kavetska's sole proprietorship is also registered at the same address.
A residential building in Solonets, officially owned by Andrey Kavetsky's mother-in-law and wife (photo by NGL.media)
Since 2023, Andrey Kavetsky has been declaring ownership of a premium Lexus LS 460, officially owned by 42-year-old Denis Nakonechny, a developer from Dubliany. Nakonechny refused to explain to NGL.media why the region's chief land developer had been using his car for at least four years. He claimed he had already sold the vehicle.
In 2025, Kavetsky mentioned another car—a 2020 Audi Q8, which has been in the possession of Kateryna Kavetska since 2022. Due to the failure to declare this car, in 2024, the High Anti-Corruption Court ordered the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to open a criminal case against Kavetsky. The plaintiff in the case was Kyiv activist Oleksandr Shatniy, who informed the NABU that Andriy Kavetsky was driving this car but not declaring it. The case was eventually opened, but it never resulted in a verdict.
However, the Audi Q8 had to be declared. This car, like the rest of his property, is not registered to Kavetsky. As of 2025, it was owned by Pavel Vyhovsky, a 41-year-old lawyer and agricultural entrepreneur from Dublyan. NGL.media was unable to obtain his comment.
Andriy Kavetsky is not a very careful driver, which is why he periodically receives traffic tickets. Thanks to this, NGL.media was able to identify two other cars he occasionally drove: a 2021 BMW 7 Series and a 2017 Jaguar XJ with Kyiv license plates. In 2026, Kavetsky also began driving a 2013 Lexus LS 600h registered to 42-year-old Volodymyr Volynets, a business partner of the aforementioned Denis Nakonechny.
It's worth noting that the official owners of the cars Kavetsky drives are connected in one way or another to Dublyany, where he studied, and are roughly his age. Furthermore, their phone numbers on GetContact are often listed with the following names: "from Kavetsky," "by Kavetsky," and so on.
So, everything is more or less clear with the cars - they don’t have their own, but generous friends let both Kavetsky and his wife use them without asking any questions.
What about housing? Officially, Andriy Kavetskyi declares he lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Sykhiv, owned by his wife's brother. However, this home is hardly suitable for family occupancy—especially since his mother-in-law, Olga Moroz, owns two houses near Lviv. In addition to the aforementioned house in Solonka, she officially owns a significantly newer two-story house in Malechkovychi, another wealthy village near Lviv. Houses of similar size here currently cost upwards of $200.
A house in the village of Malechkovychi near Lviv is registered to Andriy Kavetskyi's mother-in-law (photo by NGL.media)
Olga Moroz declined to speak with NGL.media.
Wife's money and business
Andriy Kavetskyi's official declarations indicate that his wife is the family's primary breadwinner. In 2025 alone, Kateryna Kavetskaya earned 6,5 million hryvnias as an entrepreneur—she has been registered as a sole proprietorship since 2019 for "restaurant operations and provision of mobile catering services."
Ekaterina Kavetskaya is even more private than her husband. Her social media pages contain no photos, tags, or preferences that would reveal any information about her. We were also unable to find any recent photos of her. But we did find some interesting information.
Kateryna Kavetskaya's sole proprietorship is registered to the phone number of Tatyana Yarovaya, an accountant at the popular hotel complex " Drevniy Grad ," located near Dubliany on the Kyiv-Chop highway. The hotel is officially operated by a private enterprise of the same name, owned by former Lviv Regional Council member Mykhailo Koval. However, as NGL.media journalists discovered, the hotel splits part of its income among the sole proprietors—a classic tax evasion scheme.
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Yarovaya's phone number is listed as the contact number for 19 entrepreneurs, including Kavetskaya. Most of them are former or current hotel employees. Relatives of the hotel owner are also among these entrepreneurs. In a conversation with NGL.media, Tatyana Yarovaya denied any connection to Ekaterina Kavetskaya's entrepreneurship, but could not explain why her number appears in the registration information of Kavetsky's wife.
The "Drevniy Grad" restaurant is located near a highway, practically in the forest, and, as it turns out, the land beneath it was acquired not entirely legally. Local police are currently investigating the illegal withdrawal of part of this land from the use of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine." It's worth noting that such decisions regarding land outside populated areas have been under the jurisdiction of the State Geocadastre, headed by Kavetsky, for years.
NGL.media was unable to obtain a comment from the official owner of "Ancient City," Mikhail Koval.
Andriy Kavetskyi remains in pretrial detention, having yet to pay his nearly 90 million hryvnia bail. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) continues its investigation into both the bribery case and the main case of illicit enrichment.
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