Ihor Kononenko

Ihor Vitaliiovych Kononenko (Ігор Віталійович Кононенко; born 21 August 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.

After graduation in 1982 at the 45th secondary school in Kyiv, Kononenko studied at the Automobile and Highway Institute in Kyiv (KAHI; currently called the National Transport University).

From 1984 to 1986, he served in the Soviet Army, where he met Petro Poroshenko.

From 1988 to 1990, he worked as secretary of the Komsomol committee in the KAHI.

In 1989, he graduated with honors in the Kyiv Automobile and Highway Institute with a degree in Economics and Management in Transport.

From 1990 to 1991, he was deputy director of the structural unit of the city headquarters of the student brigade.

From 1991 to 1994, he worked as commercial director in two companies – MP "Transport" and JSC Exchange House "Ukraine".

Kononenko was also a member of the supervisory board and worked in Poroshenko's companies, such as CJSC Ukrainian Industrial and Investment Concern (member of the supervisory board in 1994–2005, first deputy and general director in 2009–2012), Bogdan Motors, Sports-health complex "Monitor" and International Investment Bank.

In the latter, Kononenko is a minority shareholder (owner of a 14.92% stake).

From 2004 to 2009, he was chairman of the supervisory board of a transport company (OJSC "Kyiv Motor Transport Enterprise – 2240") in Kyiv.

Kononenko owns an PJSC Closed Non-diversified Corporate Investment fund VIK, which manages seven companies.

From 2006 to 2014, Kononenko was a deputy of the Kyiv City Council of the 5th and 6th convocations from the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc.

He was the deputy chairman of the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.

Since 2012 he is a chairman of the supervisory board of its fund.

Kononenko is the most important business partner of Petro Poroshenko and worked as a chairman of the supervisory board in Poroshenko's company

According to a 2013 electronic declaration, Igor Kononenko officially declared ₴30 million.

Kononenko is a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (8th convocation) since November 2014, first deputy chairman of the Bloc "Solidarity", a close friend of Petro Poroshenko.

He often referred to as the gray eminence of the Ukrainian president.

In the elections to the Kyiv City Council of 2014, Kononenko entered the electoral list of the party UDAR, where he took 11th place.

At the parliamentary elections in 2014, he was elected as a people's deputy on the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" list (ranked 29th).

In the Ukrainian parliament, Kononenko became the first deputy chairman of the faction, also joining the Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Security and the Inter-parliamentary group on relations with Austria.

In the declaration of 2015, Igor Kononenko indicated the following companies in which he was the head or investor: Shipbuilding plant "Leninska Kuznia" (Kyiv), International Tennis Academy, Medservice Plus, Promavtomatika, European House, Kievgate Investment, Treck Holding Coast S.L. (Spain), Lancashire Big (Spain), Treck Holding Limited (Gibraltar), Vnesheconomservis LLC, RI-SYSTEM LIMITED, Peskovsky glass manufacturing plant (jointly with Petro Poroshenko), Sports and recreational complex "Monitor" (jointly with Poroshenko), insurance company "Kraina" (jointly with Poroshenko), AK Bogdan Motors (jointly with Poroshenko), International Investment Bank (jointly with Poroshenko), Non-diversified investment fund VIK.

In an e-declaration for 2015, Igor Kononenko indicated salaries in the Verkhovna Rada of ₴77,772.

From the VIK Foundation, Kononenko received dividends of ₴14 million.

Kononenko declared real estate objects (7 land plots and 6 apartment buildings in Kyiv and the Kyiv Oblast) for a total of more than ₴1.8 billion.

He also declared US$928 thousand, €965,000, and ₴6,628,000 in cash.

The deputy owns a land plots of 4654 m2 and 2255 m2, as well as apartment buildings with an area of 1643.6 m2 and 36.6 m2.

The cost of the first house in the Kyiv's elite area "Tsarskoe Selo" is estimated at ₴244 million, and cost of the site is ₴105 million.

In addition, Kononenko has an apartment of 236.6 m2 (worth of ₴7.07 million) and Mercedes-Benz GL 600.

In an e-declaration for 2016, Kononenko showed a total income of ₴14,743,000.

As a deputy he earned in the Verkhovna Rada ₴161 thousand, he also had ₴82 thousand as a percentage of the deposit in the Ukrsotsbank.

From the VIK Foundation, Kononenko received dividends of ₴14.5 million.

On the account in the Ukrsotsbank he had ₴2 million.

According to the investigation of the program "Schemes", Igor Kononenko didn't indicate in his E-declaration a villa in southern Spain.

The house of 768 square meters is located near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

Kononenko confirmed this information, but stated that he wasn't obliged to indicate property belonging to his companies in his declaration: "Yes, the companies I own really have an impressive list of property (more than one hundred units). However, according to the provisions of the Law of Ukraine 'On Preventing Corruption', I am not obligated to declare property that belongs to these companies. In particular, the format of the declaration doesn't allow this."

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kononenko lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 94 (Kyiv Oblast).

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kononenko lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 94 (Kyiv Oblast).

He earned 9036 votes (12,01%).

As a result of voters' appeals, a pedestrian bridge over the highway H01 was built in Obukhiv (Kyiv Oblast) with the assistance of People's Deputy Igor Kononenko.