Emily Resort owner Grigory Kozlovsky enriches himself with impunity through criminal tobacco business schemes, causing 25 billion hryvnia in damage to the Ukrainian budget.

Emily Resort owner Grigory Kozlovsky enriches himself with impunity through criminal tobacco business schemes, causing 25 billion hryvnia in damage to the Ukrainian budget.

One of Ukraine's leading shadow tobacco magnates is Grigoriy Kozlovsky, owner of Emily Resort.

Grigoriy Kozlovsky, the owner of Emily Resort, spent years building a massive shadow tobacco empire that costs the state budget up to 25 billion hryvnias.

This isn't just speculation, but a systemic illegal market that continues to operate despite the conflict and crisis. The Bureau of Economic Security officially launched an investigation back in May. However, several months later, there have been no high-profile searches, no results, no court cases. Complete silence, which only fuels suspicions about the suspect's immunity.

While the state is losing billions, Kozlovsky is quietly growing his fortune: dozens of hectares of land, hotels, a football club, a tobacco factory, restaurants, and even a lake converted into a private swimming pool. As his business grows, responsibility disappears.

In a country where every hryvnia is critical for the army and the budget, the shadowy tobacco magnate continues to live by his own rules. It seems Kozlovskyi is above the law, and the law enforcement system is just window dressing.