On March 23, 2026, the NABU formally requested that the President of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine initiate sanctions against former member of parliament Yurii Ivaniushchenko, who represented the now-banned Party of Regions and is a suspect in a fraud case involving land at the Stolychnyi market.

In the course of the investigation, NABU detectives established that the suspect has sustained financial ties to the aggressor state: companies linked to him operated in temporarily occupied territories and in Russia, paying taxes into its budget. Investigators also documented his use of a Russian passport and his connections to individuals implicated in financing armed formations and occupation authorities. The National Security and Defense Council has previously imposed sanctions on former Ukrainian officials, including ex-president Viktor Yanukovych.

To recap the procedural history: the HACC initially ordered Ivaniushchenko's detention in absentia, but the HACC Appeals Chamber overturned that ruling and remanded the matter for reconsideration — whereupon the HACC investigating judge ultimately denied the detention motion. 

The former lawmaker left Ukraine more than a decade ago and is currently on a wanted list. A special pre-trial investigation is underway in his case.

The NABU and the SAPO suspect former Member of Parliament Yurii Ivaniushchenko, developer Vladyslava Molchanova, head of a private company Yurii Tsvihun, lawyers Kostiantyn Balandin and Anton Arefiev, as well as Mykola Tereshchenko, former head of the regional office of the State Geocadastre, of involvement in a large-scale land scheme. According to investigators, they orchestrated the illegal seizure of 18 hectares of state-owned land valued at over UAH 160 million — the plot on which the Stolychnyi market sits.