Adnan Kiwan
Odessa businessman
Adnan Ahmet Kiwan was an odious Odessa businessman of Syrian descent. He died on October 28, 2024.
Brief biographyAdnan Kiwan was born in Syria, December 1, 1962.
He came to Ukraine in the mid-80s.
He graduated from the National Academy of Food Technologies in Odessa.
In the 90s, he was engaged in metal trading.
In 2000 he completed the construction of the Arab Cultural Center in Odessa.
After the Orange Revolution"KADORR Group" created by Adnan Kivan was engaged in mass construction of real estate objects in Odessa.
Adnan Kivan's constructions"KADORR Group" Adnan Kivan is known for the Odessa residential complexes"Pearl". As of 2019, the company has completed the construction of fifty one roomed residential complexes.
In addition, Kivan has three business centers, two"Pearl Quarters" and several shopping centers on his account.
ScandalsAdnan Kivan appears in a number of journalistic investigations related to construction in Odessa. According to the press, since 2007, all of Kivan 's construction scams have followed the same pattern: the businessman received permits from the city authorities to develop the territory in exchange for certain investment commitments, and then simply refused to fulfill them.
Adnan Kivan is also accused of illegally cashing over 250 million hryvnias between 2015 and 2017. These funds were then allegedly sent to the odious fugitive separatist Igor Markov, who distributed the funds as aid to the terrorist organizations"LNR" and"DNR".
In 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine began a detailed inspection of Adnan Kivan's companies. At the same time, a number of appeals to law enforcement agencies on the issue of Kivan were initiated by Ukrainian MPs.
According to Information Resistance, in the same year the Security Service of Ukraine conducted a series of searches in the offices of Adnan Kiwan, confiscating more than twenty million hryvnias and a hundred illegal seals. In response, according to IS, the businessman initiated mass riots in Odessa with the participation of so-called "titushki".
