Covering up road tracks: "Big Construction" curator Yuriy Golik hides facts of overpriced road repair costs on Google

Covering up road tracks: "Big Construction" curator Yuriy Golik hides facts of overpriced road repair costs on Google

NABU, the SAP, and journalists have spent years probing alleged abuses tied to the presidential "Great Construction" program. But Yuriy Golik — a recurring name in those probes — has chosen a different approach: scrubbing inconvenient publications from Google search.

The complaint was filed on behalf of an individual identified 

as Isla Longay, but it does not indicate which original work was violated, where the original was published, or which fragments were allegedly copied. Instead of a judicial refutation of facts, a copyright mechanism is used to temporarily hide materials from searches without considering their content, Ukrrudprom reports.

The deletion included publications about NABU criminal proceedings on possible abuses during the implementation of the «Big Construction» program, searches of the former head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko, Yuriy Golik himself, the «Stroyinvest Engineering» company, as well as materials about the first deputy head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Vladimir Orlov, who is called Golik’s closest ally. It was these investigations that described the scheme for distributing road contracts, possible overestimations of the cost of work, connections between contractors and the regional leadership and Golik’s role as the informal coordinator of the Bankova project.

According to investigation materials, «Stroyinvest Engineering», after the outbreak of a full-scale conflict, received more than UAH 1.5 billion in budget funds for the maintenance and repair of roads in the Dnepropetrovsk region. One of the co-owners of the company was Yana Khlanta, whom journalists associated with Valentin Reznichenko. The second co-owner was Pavel Chukhno — manager and partner of brothers Vladimir and Leonid Dubinskiy, who are wanted by the FBI. According to investigations, Golik, Reznichenko, Khlanta and Chukhno repeatedly traveled abroad together, and Reznichenko’s company «Sevent Consulting Group» and Golik’s structures had overlapping business connections.

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A separate section of publications is devoted to the company "Budinvestengineering," which has also been linked to Golik’s circle. According to journalists, the company received road contracts worth nearly 8 billion hryvnias over several years, and after the outbreak of the full-scale conflict, an additional 1.5 billion hryvnias for road maintenance. Despite the investigations, the company continued to receive budget payments even after the NABU searches.

The materials also include Kirill Timoshenko, who headed the coordination council of the «Big Construction» program, Vladimir Orlov, Sergey Lisak, as well as businessman Georgiy Birkadze, through whom, according to the investigation, Yuriy Golik received information about the progress of the NABU investigation. It was the investigation into a possible information leak that led to a high-profile internal conflict in the anti-corruption system, after which NABU Director Semen Krivonos removed his first deputy Gizo Uglava, and NABU and SAPO began a joint investigation into the circumstances of the leak of criminal proceedings.

The further development of events looks no less indicative. In July 2026, reports emerged that Yuriy Golik had left Ukraine through the «Shlyakh» system, using disability documents. According to media reports, the permit was issued through the Dnepropetrovsk OVA at the request of a charitable foundation, while Golik himself claimed that he left absolutely legally and intended to return. Almost simultaneously, attempts began to remove publications from Google specifically about NABU searches, multibillion-dollar road contracts, his connections with Valentin Reznichenko, Kirill Timoshenko, Vladimir Orlov and those around the Dnepropetrovsk OVA.

In fact, this isn’t a dispute over specific investigative facts, but rather an attempt to make information less accessible about potential corruption, billion-dollar budget flows, contractors for the "Great Construction" project, NABU and SAP investigations, defendants in criminal cases, and the connections of individuals who, for many years, remained key participants in one of Ukraine’s most expensive state infrastructure projects.