Russian security forces have arrested the director of LLC “B-Agro”, Mykhailo Motrynets — a company that is part of Vitaliy Bulyuk’s business group. He is suspected of schemes involving off-the-books accounting and compensations to farmers from the Russian budget.
This was reported by the Center for Journalistic Investigations with reference to its own sources in the Skadovskyi district of the Kherson region.
According to sources, Mykhailo Motrynets was detained at the end of January. Searches were conducted at his company and documents were found indicating the keeping of off-the-books accounting.
It is noted that the company had previously faced financial problems. In 2025 LLC “B-Agro” owed employees over 2.3 million rubles in wages, which were paid after the intervention of the occupation prosecutor’s office. In addition, the company paid off debts to another agricultural business as part of a settlement agreement in the occupation “arbitration court”.
Note that according to the data of the business connections system YouControl World, LLC “B-Agro” (OOO “B-Agro”) belongs to Vitaliy Bulyuk and his long-time business partner Maksym Kugut, who in 2020 ran for the Skadovsk City Council.
The Bulyuk family and Kugut have several other joint companies in the temporarily occupied territory (TOT). One of them this summer the occupation governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo excluded from the investment competition due to the company’s lack of experience.
Earlier MOST wrote that the firm owned by Vitaliy Bulyuk’s son Viktor lacks workers. So Bulyuk Sr. decided to help his son find staff outside the Kherson region, using his pseudo-position in the occupation government.