One of Putin's negotiators owned a business near Kyiv and worked for Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk. Details

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's favorite in peace talks, negotiator Kirill Dmitriev, is associated with construction near Kyiv. He also worked for Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk for a long period of time.

According to Glavkom, Dmitriev is a Kyiv resident. He was involved in the construction of the Olympic Park residential complex, 19 kilometers from Kyiv. In 2008, in the village of Berezivka, the capital's Traverz-Bud LLC began housing construction, the large-scale promotion of which even involved singer Ani Lorak, who has also been living in Russia for a long time.

Officially, Kirill Dmitriev's name did not appear in the documents: the founder of Traverz-Bud was the Russian company Yurfinansconsult. However, in a conversation with Glavkom, one of the homeowners, Oleh Khavruk, head of the NGO Association of Residents of the Olympic Park, said that there were actually two investors: former Delta Bank owner Mykola Lahun (now on the Interior Ministry's wanted list on suspicion of misappropriation of property) and Kirill Dmitriev himself.

According to the project, 900 cottages with extensive infrastructure were to be built on an area of about 300 hectares. The houses were to be commissioned in three phases. The average cost of such a house was $250 thousand. According to investigative journalists at Znak Oklyku, Lahun and Dmitriev's structures took half a billion hryvnias from 200 investors to build cottages.

"At the time of equity participation (2009), the developer offered buyers to sign two contracts. The first one was for the construction of a house, the other was for the purchase of a land plot. The seller of the land plots was an individual, Alexander Dmitriev, Kirill's father. However, Kirill Dmitriev was the one de facto responsible for the construction of the cottages. By the way, the buyers of the cottages, including myself, met with Kirill and he promised to complete the houses. He partially fulfilled his promises, but the construction of critial infrastructure was neglected. The residents had to fix everything at their own expense," Khavruk said.

Thus, such contracts with potential buyers of Olympic Park were signed by Kirill Dmitriev's father. The shareholder emphasized that after Dmitriev joined Putin's Russian Direct Investment Fund in spring 2011, the Olympic Park project was briefly overseen by then-Party of Regions MP Vladyslav Lukianov. In a commentary to the media, the politician said that Kirill Dmitriev was allegedly ready to pay part of the debt associated with the construction of the cottage community.

After Lukianov, who, by the way, was detained by the SSU in February 2024 and served with a suspicion for justifying Russia's armed aggression, several other owners of Olympic Park changed, and finally, until November 2024, it was managed by Vasyl Rozzhyvin from Kyiv through the Nova Berezivka service cooperative. According to Oleh Khavruk, Rozzhyvin is directly related to Kirill Dmytriev, who worked as his manager at the beginning of the cottage town's construction.

According to Ukrainska Pravda, in 2007, Dmitriev headed Victor Pinchuk's Icon Private Equity investment fund with a capital of about a billion dollars. The fund also invested in Russia. There, he conducted a number of major deals: the sale of Delta Bank to General Electric and Delta Credit to Société Générale, and shares in STS Media to Fidelity Investments.

In 2010, Dmitriev was included in the list of young global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. A year later, he returned to Russia and headed the newly created Russian Direct Investment Fund.

When the Russian government declared a course to modernize the economy, Elvira Nabiullina, who was then head of the Ministry of Economic Development, was looking for a person to head a state investment fund with foreign participation. Pinchuk gave Dmitriev a good recommendation. The interview in Russia was successful, and in 2011 he became the head of the RDIF with a statutory fund of $10 billion.

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