Civil servant with dollar cash: how Ukrpatent CEO Ivan Cherniavskyi ended up with millions in cash during the war

The General Director of the state enterprise “Digital” (formerly “Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property” – UIIP) Ivan Chernyavskyi conceals the value of his family’s property.

This was reported by the anti-fraud project “190”.

The Chernyavskyi family owns a significant amount of real estate:

  • An apartment (96.1 sq. m) in Kyiv – owned by Ivan Chernyavskyi, acquired in 2008. Value not specified;

  • An apartment (36.2 sq. m) in Kyiv – owned by his wife Olena Chernyavska, acquired in 2014. Value not specified;

  • An apartment (45.3 sq. m) in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region – Olena Chernyavska owns 50% of the apartment under shared ownership, acquired in 2021. The co-owner of this property is citizen Labaha Kateryna. Value not specified;

  • An apartment (69.9 sq. m) in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region– Olena Chernyavska owns a share of the apartment under joint ownership (joint ownership implies that all co-owners possess the property without defined shares – ed.), acquired in 1995. The co-owners of this property are Kondrashova Olha and Kankishpur Yuliya (likely relatives of Olena Chernyavska). Value not specified;

  • An apartment (72.9 sq. m) in the village of Talianky, Cherkasy region – Ivan Chernyavskyi owns a share of the apartment under joint ownership, acquired in 1995. The co-owners of this property are Chernyavskyi’s relatives (mother, father, and brother). Value not specified.

  • In 2023, Chernyavskyi invested in real estate in the capital. He declares an object of unfinished construction – an apartment (39.95 sq. m) in Kyiv. In his 2023 declaration, the official indicated that he made a one-time payment of 399,000 UAH for this property, and no further expenses for the apartment were declared by Ivan Chernyavskyi.

  • Chernyavskyi does not own a personal car. Since 2003, he has owned a Soviet motorcycle IZH Jupiter 5 from 1989, with its value not specified. Meanwhile, his wife purchased a luxury SUV MERCEDES-BENZ GLS 450 from 2016 in 2020. The official once again concealed the value; today, such a vehicle could cost around 1.5 million UAH.

  • Olena Chernyavska has her own business – her private enterprise “ORGANIC PRODUCTS” (EDRPOU code 39512672), which deals with wholesale trade of food products, is registered in the Kyiv apartment where they live together with her husband, at the address Borysa Hmyri St., 6. Ivan Chernyavskyi himself is a member of the homeowners’ association “Borysa Hmyri 6” (EDRPOU code 40665771).

 qhtiquuiehiqzkant quhiqkkiqdziqqehabBuilding on Borysa Hmyri St., 6, where the Chernyavskyi family resides

Last year, Chernyavskyi received nearly 1.5 million UAH in salary from the state enterprise “Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property” (about 125,000 UAH per month), 39,000 UAH in salary from the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (where he works as a senior lecturer at NUBiP), and 53,000 UAH in social payments. Olena Chernyavska received 74,000 UAH in salary from the individual entrepreneur Nezdoliy Olena, who specializes in retail trade of pharmaceutical goods in specialized stores. Cherniavskyi did not declare any income of his wife from the private enterprise “ORGANIC PRODUCTS”.

Ivan Chernyavskyi holds 80,000 USD in cash, while his wife has 40,000 USD (totaling over 5 million UAH). He does not declare any savings stored in their bank accounts.

The state enterprise “Digital” was called the state enterprise “Ukrainian Institute of Intellectual Property” (UIIP) until September 2025. At that time, the enterprise also changed its type of activity – from “research and experimental development in the field of natural and technical sciences” to “data processing, hosting, and related activities”.

Chernyavskyi has been working at the state enterprise “Digital” since 2023. Initially, he served as the acting general director of the state enterprise, and in 2024, he became the general director. Prior to working at the state enterprise, Ivan Chernyavskyi held managerial positions at the state institution “State Hydrography” (responsible for navigational and hydrographic support of shipping on internal waterways and in Ukraine’s maritime waters) and the State Agricultural Inspection of Ukraine.

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