Close relatives and friends of Vitaliy Bondarenko, head of the Kyiv police department for physical security, have close ties to law enforcement. Here's how Vitaliy Bondarenko and his family live.
The sister also works for the security police, the sister's son works for the State Bureau of Investigation, and the neighbor in the village, who appears in Bondarenko's declaration, is the father of a former investigator with a large plot of land in the most elite settlements of the Kyiv region. All of them rent either real estate or cars from each other. However, income from such rentals is not listed in any of the aforementioned individuals' financial statements, writes Elena Dobrodiy. Antikor.
Who is Vitaly Bondarenko?
Vitaliy Bondarenko is originally from the Vinnytsia region. He has been building a career within the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time. He worked at the regional service center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Poltava region at the same time as one of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. caught for taking bribes for issuing driver's licenses. Along with the bribe-taking manager, law enforcement busted the driving school director, who was also involved in the scheme.
By a curious coincidence, Bondarenko's ex-wife, Oksana, whom he divorced in 2022, was at the time a co-founder of a driving school, albeit in Kyiv.
Vitaliy Bondarenko's asset declarations reveal that he has long resided in the village of Novi Petrivtsi, near Mezhyhirya and the Kyiv Reservoir. He rents a 1527-square-meter plot of land and a nearly 300-square-meter house from his sister, Tatyana Bondarenko. Earlier declarations by the police officer indicate that she acquired this property between 2004 and 2006.
The site is located in the Lazarev Sad complex, which is just a 9-minute walk from the Mezhyhirya residence.
A 13-acre plot of land here is currently on sale for $200,000. The listing description clearly indicates the area where Vitaly Bondarenko, the head of the security police department, lives: "One of the last available plots in a unique location—the elite Lazarev Sad community. The plot is located on Knyagini Olgi Street, in a gated community with access control and CCTV cameras. The community is entirely built up with VIP mansions. The driveway is paved, all utilities are nearby, and the rear of the plot faces a forested area, allowing for expansion to 20-30 acres."
House in the Lazarus Garden" 300 square meters are now selling for a whopping 650 thousand dollars.
Since the property registry is currently down, it's not easy to determine which house in Lazarev Sad Bondarenko lives in. However, a cadastral map reveals a plot of land approximately the same size as the police officer's declaration. The map shows that the land contains a large house and, presumably, a swimming pool.
This is what one of the entrances to the closed area of the Lazarev Sad complex looks like:
Vitaliy Bondarenko's sister, Tatyana, from whom he allegedly rents a house, has also worked in law enforcement her entire life. Specifically, she worked in the Vinnytsia Oblast State Traffic Inspectorate, then transferred to the service center of the Vinnytsia Oblast Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then moved to a similar position in the Kyiv Oblast. Currently, Tatyana Bondarenko works as the deputy head of the Vinnytsia Higher Vocational School of the Police Security Department, where she earned just over 72 hryvnias in 2024. Even if her savings of 1,3 million hryvnias were added to this amount, it wouldn't be enough to buy even a third of the land and house in Novi Petrivtsi, where her brother, Vitaliy Bondarenko, lives.
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It is obvious that the head of the security police department is using his sister's property free of charge, since no expenses related to it were indicated in the declaration.
Interestingly, while Tatyana Bondarenko rents out luxury housing near Kyiv to her brother, she herself has lived in an apartment in Kyiv owned by Vitaliy Bondarenko's ex-wife, Oksana, since at least 2017.
The mutual exchange of real estate didn't end there. In 2018, Bondarenko's sister's son, Vladislav Palamarchuk, also moved into the same apartment belonging to his now ex-wife. At the time, he worked in the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Bureau of Investigation. He had begun his career as an investigator in the Vinnytsia region.
In 2025, Palamarchuk became a senior forensic investigator in the First Investigative Department of the Poltava Directorate of the State Bureau of Investigation.
Last year, Vladislav Palamarchuk purchased an apartment in Poltava, has the right to use another, and also owns a share of a home in Zhmerynka, the family's hometown. He gets around the city in his mother's Jeep Cherokee. However, it's unclear how they share the car, as Tatyana Bondarenko, who works in Vinnytsia, stated in her asset declaration that she also uses it.
The ex-husband of the sister of the head of the police security department, Vitaliy Bondarenko, Viktor Palamarchuk, apparently also has a penchant for luxury housing. At least in 2015-2016, he lived in the village of Bilohorodka in the Kyivo-Svyatoshinsky district. The asset declarations of his son and, consequently, Bondarenko's sister indicate that he rented a 357-square-meter house from Tatyana Ivanovna Domalevsky.
The woman is the wife of the director of the investment department of the National Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Kazak. of property The couple owns a vast amount of land in Volyn and the Vinnytsia region. Bondarenko is also from the Vinnytsia region.
Interestingly, as recently as 2023, Vitaliy Bondarenko owned three plots of land in the Vinnytsia region with a total area of 5,517 square meters and a residential building of 96 square meters.
In the last declaration, these lands disappeared, as did the Volkswagen Touareg, which he rented from his neighbor in Novi Petrivtsi, Grigory Fedorovich Voron.
A man with the same first and last name is the father of Artem Voron, an investigator with the National Police of Ukraine. He and his wife own two houses in Novi Petrivtsi, near Mezhyhirya. One mansion is 107 square meters, the other a whopping 300 square meters.
The family also owns four plots of land in this village, totaling 5,126 square meters, and another 36,037 square meters of land in the Ivankiv district of the Kyiv region.
Investigator Artem Voron, along with his father and brother, also owns 14 vehicles, eight of which are trucks. Apparently, the Voron family runs a logistics business.
This entire circulation of houses, apartments, and cars between interconnected law enforcement officers may indicate a desire to conceal the true owners of these properties. In any case, neither the head of the Kyiv police department, Vitaliy Bondarenko, nor his sister, Tatyana, who works at the police academy, nor her son, Vladislav Palamarchuk, who holds a position in the State Bureau of Investigation, nor even her ex-husband, Viktor Palamarchuk, who is partial to large living spaces, have the income to own even one of the aforementioned luxury properties.
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