{"id":"01a0fdcf-7824-7b16-a6e9-c4dd09acec20","age":null,"slug":"kaufman-borys-b5b2","isPep":false,"photo":{"url":"/media/persons/01a0fdcf-7824-7b16-a6e9-c4dd09acec20/9d21baec-9c18-44a1-b4ff-6e02b90070b7-640.webp","credit":"Wikimedia Commons (фото: Ecchi) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Борис_Кауфман_фото.JPG","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0"},"amounts":{"usd":{"alleged":"4417180.71","complete":true,"established":"0.00"},"byCurrency":[{"alleged":"118000000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"}],"confirmedRatio":0},"summary":"Odesa businessman, co-owner of the Vertex United group, former member of Odesa City Council. In 2019, Bihus.Info covered the fight over Odesa airport, 75% of which went to a firm linked to him and O. Hranovskyi. In 2023, NABU and SAPO served a notice of suspicion of misappropriating airport property worth UAH 118 million; in June 2025, per media, the HACC approved a plea agreement; entry of the verdict into force is not confirmed.","episodes":[{"id":"01a0fdcf-791c-73a4-ab5e-314c99de418d","title":"Misappropriation of the property of “Odesa” airport (UAH 118 million in property, over UAH 2.5 billion in revenue)","status":"trial","amounts":{"usd":{"rate":"0.0374337348","alleged":"4417180.71","rateDate":"2019-04-15","established":"0.00"},"alleged":"118000000.00","currency":"UAH","established":"0.00"},"dateEnd":"2022-12-31","sources":[{"id":"01a0fdcf-7936-7bda-8558-8e1e3f110bca","url":"https://nabu.gov.ua/news/zavolodinnia-mayinom-aeroportu-odesa-slidstvo-zaversheno/","type":"official","title":"Misappropriation of \"Odesa\" airport property: investigation completed","publisher":"NABU","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2024-05-20","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdcf-792f-7b83-8f3c-d7c892a4f949","url":"https://nabu.gov.ua/news/zavolod-nnia-aeroportom-odesa-p-dozriuiut-sia-5-os-b/","type":"official","title":"Misappropriation of \"Odesa\" airport: 5 persons suspected (DIAGRAM)","publisher":"NABU","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2023-08-29","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdcf-7928-7a79-a642-aae40bff78b6","url":"https://bihus.info/otochennya-lucenka-ryatue-aktivi-kaufmana-granovskogo/","type":"ngo","title":"Lutsenko's circle is rescuing Kaufman-Granovsky's assets","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2019-04-16","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdcf-7923-7294-8a3b-8f811a8d673a","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uMmzwLz2cQ","type":"ngo","title":"Battle for Odesa airport: the state vs Kaufman-Granovsky /// Our Money No. 265 (2019.04.15)","publisher":"Bihus.Info","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2019-04-15","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdcf-7942-7c7e-9cf9-730ee7836a2b","url":"https://zn.ua/ukr/anticorruption/zavolodinnja-aeroportom-odesa-obvinuvacheni-zobovjazalisja-vidshkoduvati-miljard-hriven-ta-uniknuli-tjurmi.html","type":"media","title":"Kaufman, Granovsky and Kostusiev took a deal in the Odesa airport misappropriation case and avoided prison","publisher":"ZN.ua","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2025-06-13","untranslated":[]},{"id":"01a0fdcf-793c-7b60-8d71-10d45b5c8da8","url":"https://epravda.com.ua/news/2024/05/20/713925/","type":"media","title":"Misappropriation of \"Odesa\" airport property: NABU completed investigation against Kaufman and Borukhovych","publisher":"Ekonomichna Pravda","archiveUrl":null,"archivedAt":null,"publishedAt":"2024-05-20","untranslated":[]}],"dateStart":"2011-01-01","caseNumber":null,"description":"According to NABU and SAPO, in 2011 two well-known Odesa businessmen organised a scheme to take possession of the property of MUE Odesa International Airport: an LLC they registered obtained, without a competition, 75% in a company jointly owned with the Odesa City Council, to which the airport’s property complex worth about UAH 118 million, not subject to privatisation, was transferred; according to investigators, the participants of the scheme took possession of this property and the revenues from the airport’s operations for 2012–2022 totalling over UAH 2.5 billion (the episode amount is UAH 118 million, the value of the property). NABU does not name them; according to the media and Bihus.Info, they are Borys Kaufman and Alex Borukhovych (Oleksandr Hranovskyi). In April 2019 Bihus.Info reported how, after the airport property was transferred to the management of ARMA (2018), this ruling was overturned. Notices of suspicion were served on 29.08.2023, new ones on 17.05.2024; the investigation was completed in May 2024. On 12.06.2025, according to media reports, the HACC approved plea agreements with seven defendants (suspended sentences, fines, obligations to compensate the Odesa City Council over UAH 1 billion). The entry of the verdict into force has not been officially confirmed, so the status is “under trial”.","disclosedAt":"2019-04-15","coDefendants":[{"slug":"hranovskyi-oleksandr-cae7","fullName":"Грановський Олександр Михайлович","personId":"01a102d7-bd24-7027-9098-329747d231c6","fullNameLatin":"Hranovskyi Oleksandr Mykhailovych"},{"slug":"kostusiev-oleksii-fa13","fullName":"Костусєв Олексій Олексійович","personId":"01a102d7-bde8-7468-a309-8745e10bf5f0","fullNameLatin":"Kostusiev Oleksii Oleksiiovych"}],"untranslated":[],"courtCaseNumber":null,"statusUpdatedAt":"2025-06-12","criminalArticles":["ч. 5 ст. 191 КК України","ч. 3 ст. 209 КК України","ч. 4 ст. 369 КК України"],"dateIsApproximate":true,"investigatingBody":"National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine","daysWithoutMovement":481}],"fullName":"Кауфман Борис Рафаїлович","response":null,"birthYear":null,"deathDate":null,"indexable":true,"updatedAt":"2026-10-03T23:21:47.946521+00:00","revisionId":"01a102bf-4b74-7fd9-95e6-e44685eae5c6","connections":[{"slug":"hranovskyi-oleksandr-cae7","type":"episode","photo":{"url":"/media/persons/01a102d7-bd24-7027-9098-329747d231c6/2f1e7f32-9dda-41f9-aa3a-579affab129c-640.webp","credit":"Wikimedia Commons (фото: press service) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oleksandr_Hranovskyi_(p).jpg","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"status":"trial","fullName":"Грановський Олександр Михайлович","personId":"01a102d7-bd24-7027-9098-329747d231c6","position":"Member of Parliament of Ukraine, 8th convocation","sharedObject":"Misappropriation of property of \"Odesa\" airport (UAH 118 million in property, over UAH 2.5 billion in revenue)","untranslated":[],"fullNameLatin":"Hranovskyi Oleksandr Mykhailovych","sharedObjectHref":null},{"slug":"kostusiev-oleksii-fa13","type":"episode","photo":{"url":"/media/persons/01a102d7-bde8-7468-a309-8745e10bf5f0/87c48e7b-bbd8-4dc6-bb9e-0d0fd32a0cd3-640.webp","credit":"Wikimedia Commons (фото: Viktoznavec) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kostusev_%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE.jpg","license":"CC BY-SA 3.0"},"status":"trial","fullName":"Костусєв Олексій Олексійович","personId":"01a102d7-bde8-7468-a309-8745e10bf5f0","position":"Mayor of Odesa","sharedObject":"Misappropriation of property of \"Odesa\" airport (UAH 118 million in property, over UAH 2.5 billion in revenue)","untranslated":[],"fullNameLatin":"Kostusiev Oleksii Oleksiiovych","sharedObjectHref":null}],"citizenships":["UA"],"govPositions":[],"nameVariants":["Borys Kaufman","Борис Кауфман"],"untranslated":[],"fullNameLatin":"Kaufman Borys Rafailovych","primaryStatus":"trial","officialStatus":"former","currentSituation":"unknown","commercialPositions":[]}