03.07.2024
Money laundering
Emily Resort luxury empire. How to capture a lake and tobacco production: the secret of businessman Kozlovsky’s success
Emily Resort is an elite 5-star complex located in the suburbs of Lviv. The cost of living in such a complex is estimated at tens of thousands of hryvnias, which is why it is most often chosen by people from the “upper echelons”.
Since the invasion, Emily Resort has repeatedly been at the center of scandals: first, former civil servants (a former prosecutor and a DBR employee) celebrated a loud wedding in the complex, and later, the hotel hosted a festive New Year’s party with a bunch of invited artists and nightly dances.
The owner of the Emily Resort empire is Hryhorii Kozlovskyi, a former deputy of the Lviv Regional Council of the 8th convocation (from October 2020 to 2022), former director and co-owner of Vynnykivska Tobacco Factory LLC. Former president of FC Rukh.
You won’t find any negative things about Kozlovsky and Emily Resort online: all the scandals and exposés have been either deleted or hidden. Obviously, the businessman’s sms team is working perfectly. Nevertheless, Kozlovsky still failed to hide some things
What is included in Kozlovsky’s empire?
It is worth noting that over the years, the businessman has built a fairly extensive empire of legal entities. Thus, his subordinate structures include:
Individual entrepreneur Hryhorii Kozlovskyi;
- PE “KOROLIVSKA PIVOVARNIA” (EDRPOU code 44830840);
- Emily Resort LLC (EDRPOU code 42556966);
- JSC “ZETA FINANCE” (EDRPOU code 43952891);
- LLC “EMILY-FUT-10” (EDRPOU code 44663207);
- LLC “EMILY-OSTRIV-5” (EDRPOU code 44844167);
- Dragon Park 1 LLC (EDRPOU code 45526410)
- and dozens of others.
Emily Resort and the capture of a lake near Lviv
Emily Resort is known not only for scandalous parties. In 2023, it became known that National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Investigation detectives were investigating a criminal case regarding the privatization of almost 16 hectares of land around Vynnyky Lake, the location of the complex.
The case file revealed that in 2021 the land was privatized by the family of Lviv businessman Kozlovsky.
This land had been leased for many years by Krakivskyi Market LLC, and in 2017, Football Academy LLC, founded by businessman and Lviv City Council member Hryhorii Kozlovskyi, became a subtenant of a part of the land around the lake. Soon after, the company and the businessman’s relatives received almost 17 hectares of land around the lake for permanent free use, and in 2020, the Vynnyky City Council sold the land to the Football Academy for UAH 17.5 million.
After all the documents were prepared in 2018, a large-scale construction of a recreation complex began on the territory near the lake, and the lake itself was dried up for the duration of the work. In June 2022, Emily Resort, an elite recreation complex, was opened on the site of the former city lake.
Now the 9.7-hectare plot under the lake with the coastal zone belongs to the city council and is intended for the construction and maintenance of recreational facilities.
Since 2021, the land around the lake with an area of almost 16 hectares has been privatized by Hryhoriy Kozlovsky’s children, Sofia Maksymets, as well as Yarema, Diana, Juliana and Svyatoslav Kozlovsky.
According to the investigation, the former head of the Vynnyky City Council, Volodymyr Kvurt, transferred ownership and granted permanent use of water fund land at a reduced price, grossly violating land legislation.
Kozlovsky’s tobacco empire
The businessman is the beneficial owner and manager of VTF LLC, which specializes in the production of tobacco products.
By controlling the company, together with other members of the organized criminal group, Kozlovsky could have organized the illegal production of counterfeit excisable goods. Such goods could be sold in the following ways: for example, when the products are sold in Ukraine, through a number of illegal outlets, for cash, without paying excise duty, which leads to tax evasion. Alternatively, in criminal collusion with officials and employees of the State Customs Service of Ukraine and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Kozlovsky could have organized illegal transportation across the border.
We are already investigating these facts. Moreover, we have already sent relevant materials to law enforcement and regulatory authorities. We are waiting for a response and share the stages of the investigation.
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