A citizen of Kyrgyzstan, Alymkan Ashyralieva, has bought more than fifty different companies in Ukraine over the past six months. Many of the companies were unprofitable, in debt, or had not been operating recently. Some are involved in criminal cases. The woman even purchased one of the companies of Vadym Rabinovych, a former MP from the banned "Opposition Platform — For Life" party, who is suspected of high treason.
However, as the Suspilne investigative editorial office has found out, the investor is not a wealthy businesswoman, but a 44-year-old mother of many children from a Kyrgyz village far from the capital.
The journalists from the investigative editorial office noted this woman while examining the purchases of the state-owned enterprise "SelydivCoal". The journalists decided to find the woman and her two representatives, who are officially helping the citizen of Kyrgyzstan to buy businesses in Ukraine.
Alymkan’s first Ukrainian company
According to the analytical system "YouControl", on June 26, 2024, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan, Alymkan Ashyralieva, became the owner and director of the Odesa company "Blast and Co". This was the first Ukrainian company in which Alymkan’s name appeared. The company was immediately renamed "Rosario Ester System 2024" and re-registered at 9 Boryspilska Street in Kyiv.
Until June 2024, "Blast and Co" LLC belonged to Serhii Kasperovych, a resident of Chornomorsk. The company’s main activity was sewage and wastewater disposal and treatment.
According to "YouControl", during 2022-2023, "Blast and Co" had no profits, the losses for 2023 amounted to almost five million hryvnias, and accounts payable at the end of 2023 amounted to almost 34 million hryvnias. The company had lawsuits with the tax authorities and counterparties.
Serhii Kasperovych refused to tell how he established contact with Alymkan Ashyralieva, to whom he sold his company. He only said that there are over 125 nationalities living in Odesa and he does not care who is a foreigner and who is not. He assured that he had found the buyer in Odesa and that he did not remember whether anyone had helped him with the sale.
"It is a trade secret," he replied when asked why he had decided to sell the company.
According to the "ClarityProject" system, 1,316 business entities are registered at 9 Boryspilska Street in Kyiv, where "Blast and Co" is currently located. Nine of them belong to Alymkan Ashyralieva. In addition, as the "YouControl" system shows, all Alymkan’s companies have the same contact phone number, which is currently not serviced. They also have similar e-mail addresses at ukr.net: the company’s code from the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine is indicated in the address.
The companies that were bought by the Kyrgyz citizen and re-registered at 9 Boryspilska Street were not related to each other. Their main activities varied from trade to construction or milk production.
One of the latest companies registered under the name of the Kyrgyz citizen is "Life Smile" from the town of Dubno, Rivne region. In December 2024, the company was re-registered at 2 Mechnykova Street in Kyiv in the "Parus" business center, which until recently belonged to Vadym Stolar, the "Opposition Platform — For Life" MP. Then the company was registered at 9 Boryspilska Street.
We called the former owner and director of the Dubno company, Yuliia Zinchenko, to ask how she had found the buyer. However, the woman, upon hearing the purpose of the call, replied that she was busy and asked to call back after 6:00 p.m. She did not answer the call later.
The purchased businesses are with zero reports, with debts or criminal records
As of March 18, 2025, Alymkan Ashyralieva was indicated as the founder and ultimate beneficial owner of 54 business entities in Ukraine, one of which ceased operations and one was in bankruptcy.
The woman also resold one company to a citizen of Kazakhstan.
Almost all companies were given new names, and some were given new activities. Alymkan is listed as the head of 51 companies. However, the number of her companies changes almost every day.
Most of the acquired companies were registered in Ukraine before the full-scale Russian invasion. However, 11 companies were launched in 2024 and sold to her within a few months.
Mostly, the authorized capitals of companies are small, but there are also companies whose size reaches several tens of millions of hryvnias.
However, the most common thing in most acquired companies is unprofitability or the absence of tax reporting in recent years.
For example, the trading company "Noktrust" (authorized capital of 15 million) and the construction company "Gradinveststroy" LLC belonged to Kyiv resident Oleh Lavrinchuk. According to the analytical system "YouControl", the first company has no financial statements, the second has no statements for 2020-2022, and the statements for 2023 are with zero indicators.
We called Oleh Lavrinchuk and asked why he had sold the companies and how he had found a foreign investor. The man explained that it is expensive to maintain the company now, and the business did not go well. Since his companies had a good record and had been on the market for 20 years, he decided to sell them.
"I found the buyer through lawyers," Lavrinchuk explained, but refused to name them, only indicating that they were from Kyiv. "This is a non-public company and non-public people."
We counted eight companies with over 15 years of experience in which Alymkan Ashyralieva is one of the founders. Two of them belonged to Oleh Lavrinchuk.
The company "Cast-Trade City" from the town of Brovary has seven and a half million hryvnias in capital, but has not had any profits for the last two years. After the sale to Alymkan, it was re-registered in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region. As a reminder, Russia is constantly shelling Kramatorsk, and civilians are being evacuated from the city.
Another company acquired by Alymkan and re-registered in Kramatorsk is "Karat-City Group" LLC. The Odesa region tax office is suing this company for over 12 million hryvnias of tax debt. On October 15, 2024, the company’s authorized capital was reduced from 15 million to almost 1 million 900 thousand, and a month later the company was sold to the foreigner. The previous owner, Oleksandr Tkachuk, refused to provide any comments on the sale of the company.
Some of the companies acquired by the Kyrgyz woman are involved in criminal cases. For example, the company "Prinfalls", previously called "Sprinter-East" and partly owned by Kharkiv City Council member Taras Sitenko, has been involved in the case of tax evasion and forgery of documents since 2020. The company’s property is under arrest.
"Eurogaz LTD" LLC had 60 million hryvnias of authorized capital and was mainly engaged in the sale of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels. On October 17, 2024, after the sale to Alymkan, it became the company "Interlife Media Reozot". Already on November 1, a notice appeared about the opening of bankruptcy proceedings.
"Eurogaz LTD" is suspected of money laundering.
Rabinovych’s business
On February 5, 2025, Alymkan Ashyralieva became the owner of the "Media Stroy" company. Until October 2022, it belonged to Vadym Rabinovych, a former MP from the banned "Opposition Platform — For Life" party, and his wife Iryna.
The Rabinovychs founded "Media Stroy" in 2012. The company was engaged in market research and public opinion polling. The company was headed by Volodymyr Katsman, a business partner of Vadym Rabinovych and a member of the political council of the "Opposition Platform — For Life" party.
Rabinovych left for Israel just before the full-scale invasion and has not returned since.
In July 2022, President Zelensky terminated by his decree Rabinovych’s Ukrainian citizenship. Earlier, some politicians and media outlets reported that Rabinovych had an Israeli passport. On November 3, 2022, the Verkhovna Rada stripped Rabinovych of his MP mandate.
On July 26, 2023, the Ukrainian law enforcement informed Rabinovych of suspicion of high treason and encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine. In September 2023, he was put on the wanted list.
The Rabinovychs’ "Media Stroy" was registered in 2022 under Vitalii Hrytsaienko. It was he who sold the company to the citizen of Kyrgyzstan. The company has now been renamed "An Mils" and is registered in Dnipro. The authorized capital of the company, by the way, was and remains at the level of one thousand hryvnias.
Vitalii Hrytsaienko’s name appears in three other Rabinovych’s companies: "Alisa Production", "Jewish Media", and "Ukrainian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce". In 2020, "Nashi Hroshi" called Vitalii Hrytsaienko a person from the entourage of another "Opposition Platform — For Life" MP — Vadym Stolar.
We called Vitalii Hrytsaienko and wanted to ask about the sale of "Media Stroy". However, he, having heard the question, asked to call back the next day. After some time, the journalist received a call from a man who named himself Vitalii and introduced himself as Hrytsaienko’s lawyer. He asked to put the question in writing.
We established that the caller was a Volyn lawyer, Vitalii Opanasenko.
The next day, we received a response from him, which said that Vitalii Hrytsaienko "alienated a share in the authorized capital on terms acceptable to him, because he had the right to do so". He allegedly did not know why the Kyrgyz citizen was interested in the corporate rights of his company.
We also asked whether the sale of the company was agreed with the Rabinovychs. We were answered that the question was inappropriate, since it was Hrytsaienko who owned the corporate rights.
Alymkan is a mother of many children and a teacher
Alymkan, according to the information submitted during the registration of her companies, was born on December 27, 1980 and registered in the village of Birinchi May, Talas region in Kyrgyzstan.
In May 2021, a woman with this name, year of birth and registration, was awarded the “Glory to the Mother” medal in Kyrgyzstan.
According to the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic, the "Glory to the Mother" medal is awarded to mothers who have six children and raise them well. During her awarding, it was indicated that in 2021, Alymkan Ashyralieva was a housewife.
Alymkan’s Facebook page has many photos of her family and the Toktogul Cholushev School in her village. Alymkan probably works there now. In the photo from the school’s Facebook page, Alymkan is among the employees.
Assuming that the citizen of Kyrgyzstan who works at a rural school may not even know that five dozen companies have already been registered under her name in Ukraine, we wrote to the woman on Facebook to confirm or deny the information.
We also contacted the educational institution where Alymkan Ashyralieva probably works.
We have not received any response. The messages remain unread.
We contacted our colleagues, investigative journalists from Kyrgyzstan, and asked to learn about Alymkan Ashyralieva. They wrote back that the woman was probably a front person. They say that their elites often register businesses with "aunts and uncles". The Kyrgyz journalists were suspicious of the fact that this woman, who was presented as a "housewife" in 2021, suddenly became a businesswoman.
Alymkan’s representatives in Ukraine
From the Unified Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, we learned that in Ukraine, Alymkan Ashyralieva’s representatives are at least two men: Oleksandr Mukhametin and Viktor Diachenko.
The documents indicate that the power of attorney for the representation of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan was certified by notary Meerim Atakulova from the Kyrgyz city of Talas on August 29, 2023.
In Ukraine, the authenticity of Mukhametin’s and Diachenko’s signatures on the statutes of the companies they purchased for Alymkan was mainly certified by notary Nataliia Melnyk.
According to the analytical system "YouControl", the name of Oleksandr Mukhametin appears in more than a hundred organizations. Most of the companies have a connection with him, that is, he was once a manager and/or owner there. As of March 6, 2025, he remained a manager and/or beneficial owner in 13 companies.
Oleksandr Mukhametin was born in 1980, registered in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk region. On February 10, 2025, he — the head of "Oscar System" LLC — was sentenced to five years in prison for causing grievous bodily harm to a man who was in conflict with a woman with whom Oleksandr was in cohabitation. The man was released from serving his sentence due to sincere remorse.
In 2015, Mukhametin was held administratively liable for violating administrative supervision: he was absent from his place of residence when the police came to check on him.
The latest verdict states that Oleksandr has a secondary education, and therefore he cannot be a lawyer who would provide services for the sale or re-registration of companies. Thus, it is likely that his name is used for temporary re-registration of companies.
We managed to find his mobile phone number, but for several days, we were unable to reach him by phone.
Another representative, Viktor Diachenko, born in 1986, is indicated in the phones as "Kyiv Firms Viktor", "Boss", "Viktor Advocate", "Viktor Lawyer Kyiv Rent". However, we did not find Viktor Vasylovych Diachenko in the register of lawyers.
In a telephone conversation, he confirmed that he was re-registering companies, but asked to send the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of Ukraine codes of the companies so that he could say for sure whether he was a representative of Alymkan Ashyralieva.
The journalist sent several codes and asked why the Kyrgyz citizen decided to buy businesses in Ukraine and how he became her representative. Victor read the message and later said that he had consulted with a lawyer and would only respond to an official request.
The next day, the journalist received a phone call from lawyer Yaroslav Ponomarenko and was asked to send the official request because his client Viktor Diachenko allegedly had non-disclosure agreements with some of his clients.
In a telephone conversation, the lawyer explained that Diachenko has been re-registering companies for many years, and his role is "purely technical": he provides a service for which owners and buyers of companies turn to him. Alymkan Ashyralieva’s power of attorney was sent to him by mail, he did not travel to Kyrgyzstan. He says he does not know why the Kyrgyz citizen is buying Ukrainian businesses.
"So that you understand Viktor’s role correctly. This is not a group; the man has been involved in the registration and re-registration of enterprises for ten years, providing the following services: formation of documents, preparation of documents. There are about a thousand signed agreements per year. That is, this is not one client (Ashyralieva Alymkan — author). The services were on all advertising platforms," says lawyer Yaroslav Ponomarenko.
A few days later, we received a written response. Yaroslav Ponomarenko reported that Viktor Diachenko, on behalf of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan — as her representative — participated in concluding agreements under which she acquired ownership of a share in the authorized capital of business entities in Ukraine.
The response also states:
"The selection of the specified enterprises was carried out personally by the client, and Viktor Diachenko was provided only with the information necessary for the preparation of documents. Viktor Diachenko has never met Alymkan Ashyralieva and has not traveled to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. In late July – early August 2023, the specified citizen contacted Diachenko via Telegram regarding ordering services for the registration and re-registration of the enterprise.
After providing initial consultation on the provisions of the current legislation of Ukraine, an agreement on representation was reached. Diachenko sent her a sample power of attorney, which contained a list of powers required to register ownership of corporate rights, and informed her that the said power of attorney must be certified by a notary of the host country, apostilled and sent to him by mail or other convenient communication channel. The power of attorney from the said citizen was received by mail approximately in mid-October 2023.
Further, from time to time, Ashyralieva applied to register the purchase and sale of a share in a Ukrainian enterprise. The information about the enterprise, the amount of authorized capital, and copies of other documents were usually provided to Diachenko by representatives of the company owner. After notarization and registration, the documents were sent to Ashyralieva.
We do not have any information about the reasons for Ashyralieva’s interest in Ukrainian business, since Diachenko never discusses these issues with clients."
The classic scheme is "to drown" a company
We asked Antonina Volkotrub, an expert at the NGO "Anti-Corruption Action Center", for a comment on the activity of the citizen of Kyrgyzstan:
"The first thing I thought of was: companies are being re-registered under her name instead of closing them down. There is such a service: when you have pending criminal proceedings or financial reports have not been submitted, but you want to get rid of the company, you simply "sell" it. You also pay money for this. Then the "new" owners will be messing with it. No one will look for foreigners (new owners of a problematic company — author). This is just a classic scheme "to drown" a company."
Anna Kalinchuk, a lawyer at "Miller Law Firm", says that if a company has obligations but cannot fulfill them and declares itself bankrupt, this may be grounds for holding its owners liable provided that their guilt in bringing the legal entity (debtor in the bankruptcy case) to a state of insolvency is confirmed.
Owners may be held vicariously liable and responsible for the company’s debts with their property and assets.
Anna adds that now Ukraine has actively started to apply the procedure of vicarious liability. If the owner of the company is a foreigner, this complicates the legal process and the execution of the court decision: the presence of a foreigner in the legal process, an interpreter for them, international exchange of documents, etc.
"In this situation (with Alymkan — author), I think it is fair to say that they brought a foreigner into the company with the aim of evading responsibility or fulfilling obligations," says Anna Kalinchuk.
The physical presence of a foreigner is not required for registering a company on their behalf. A duly certified notarized power of attorney for the representative is sufficient. At the same time, Kalinchuk draws attention to the fact that it is the Ukrainian notary who is responsible for verifying the authority of the representative of the foreign buyer during, for example, the certification of the minutes of the general meeting regarding the alienation of a share of corporate rights.
Anna adds that it is easy to register a legal entity in Ukraine, but very difficult to close it. When registering, no one checks either the address or the relevance of contacts. One can purchase an address for registering a company using the "OLX" platform.
"That is why a hundred companies can often be registered at one address," says Anna Kalinchuk. "There are firms that recruit dummy directors for companies. Usually, they select socially vulnerable people who abuse drugs or alcohol or who have just been released from prison and have no means of subsisting. Problematic companies are re-registered under their names."
If to google, you can find many ads from firms that provide services for the sale or closure of companies. The price depends on the method of liquidation and the time allocated for it. Finding a buyer costs starting from three thousand hryvnias. Changing the owner in a day without inspections of the company costs starting from 10 and a half thousand hryvnias. Liquidating a company with debts costs starting from 12 and a half thousand hryvnias. If you want an official liquidation with inspections, it will take from 6 to 9 months and will cost starting from 15 thousand hryvnias. Organizing the bankruptcy of a company takes longer: from 9 to 17 months. The price starts from 150 thousand hryvnias.
