Law enforcement officers searched the office of one of Ukraine’s largest IT company MacPaw and the home of its founder Alexander Kosovan on Wednesday in connection with the land plots acquired by the company to implement an investment project.
“MacPaw’s office and my personal home were searched. Even during a full-scale war, officials find a reason, time and way to pressure Ukrainian businesses,” Kosovan said on Facebook.
According to him, the reason for the searches were questions about land plots that MacPaw legally acquired between 2016 and 2021.
“Before the searches, we provided investigators with all the necessary documents. That is, the searches in our case are an optional measure, but the civil servants decided otherwise,” he stressed.
Kosovan did not rule out that because of the imperfection of the land legislation and because of the outdated regulation “some mistakes could have been made by the officials.
According to him, the dialogue with the local authorities to correct the mistakes and create an interesting and valuable project takes more than three years on the issue of land plots, which were the reason for the searches.
“However, after we invested tens of millions of dollars in the development of the plots, the officials became interested in them, and now they are trying to take away these lands and the asset,” Kosovan said.
In turn, co-founder of monobank Oleg Gorokhovsky suggested on his Facebook page that the searches were related to the fact that “the land plots turned out to be on someone’s wish list.”
“Alexander Kosovan will not be offended. One of the most decent and dignified people I know. A philanthropist, a visionary, a patriot. I think someone simply has his land on their wish list for this year,” he said.
As Gorokhovsky stressed, MacPaw is an international company with many international awards. The company is a resident of Dia.City.
According to information in the database of court decisions, law enforcers have claims to MacPaw Property Management LLC in connection with the implementation of the construction project of the recreation complex “IT-Relax” on the territory of Tsyblivska village united community (Boryspil district of Kyiv region). Criminal proceedings were opened in June 2021. The main charges were inappropriate use of agricultural land and construction of real estate within 100 meters of the Dnieper River’s regulatory and coastal protective strip.
Founded by Kosovan in 2008, MacPaw is a software development company. Its main products are CleanMyMac X, ClearVPN, Setapp and Gemini, Unarchiver. Declared number of users exceeds 30 million.
