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☑ Times for making difficult decisions at the Prosecutor General's Office — investigation of the head of the Chernivtsi Regional Prosecutor's Office Artem Yas
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📁 Receiving social benefits for low-income people in the FRG while having over 100 thousand in cash
✔️ In 2022 and 2023, wife Anna Yas declared receiving social assistance from the Federal Employment Agency of Germany in the amount of 813,7 thousand UAH. According to German law (SGB II, Bürgergeld payments), social assistance is granted only to persons who do not have their own financial savings (a strict limit on liquid assets applies). At the same time, the prosecutor’s family declared joint cash savings of 78–96 thousand USD and 10–24 thousand EUR.
This indicates either the submission of knowingly false information to German authorities to unlawfully obtain social benefits, or that the cash declared in Ukraine is a virtual “cushion” for laundering future bribes. The complainant considers both scenarios violations of the Law on Prevention of Corruption and the Prosecutor’s Code of Professional Ethics.
📖 Understating the value of investments in new developments and acquisition of an elite car fleet
✔️Real estate in Sofiivska Borshchahivka village. 07.03.2025 the declarant’s wife registered property rights for 3 unfinished construction units (two apartments of 47,1 and 38,9 sq. m and a parking space of 12,5 sq. m — together 98,5 sq. m) from the developer LLC “Concept Time.” Financial obligations to LLC “Weymouth Town Building” are indicated at 800 thousand UAH and 560 thousand UAH (together 1,36 million UAH). The calculated price per square meter is about 13,8 thousand UAH/sq. m (≈330 USD/sq. m), which is four to five times lower than the average market prices in that area in 2025 and indicates concealment of the actual size of expenses.
✔️ BMW X4 xDrive 20i (2025). 02.07.2025 the wife purchased a new crossover for 2,35 million UAH. Despite significant simultaneous expenditures on the car, construction, and purchase of foreign stocks, the family’s cash at the end of 2025 practically did not decrease and amounted to 87 thousand USD and 24 thousand EUR.
🚫 Failure to notify within the required terms about opening accounts abroad (Art. 52 of the Law, Arts. 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses)
✔️ The declaration for 2025 year records the opening of an account with the foreign financial company UAB Maneuver LT (Lithuania), as well as ownership of shares in US and Singapore companies (Amazon, Grab Holdings, Uber, Charles Schwab, BlackRock, etc.). Compliance with Yas’s obligation to submit notification within 20 days about opening a foreign currency account at a non-resident bank must be verified.
📌 Conflict of interest and interagency connection
✔️Anna Yas has held a position at the SBI since 2023, receiving over 2 million UAH in wages in 2024–2025. Given the SBI’s jurisdiction over crimes in the justice sector and over prosecutors’ employees, the spouses’ holding of leadership positions creates a direct risk of conflict of interest and mutual blocking of anti-corruption oversight.
🔍 What NACP and the General Inspectorate must do
🔸Conduct lifestyle monitoring of Artem Yas
🔸Carry out a full audit of annual declarations for 2021–2025
🔸Initiate a full audit of the wife’s declarations from the SBI
🔸Send requests to the State Tax Service to obtain information from the State Register of Individuals — taxpayers about the incomes of the declarant’s close relatives, starting from 1998: father-in-law Tkachenko Andriy Tymofiyovych, mother-in-law Tkachenko Olena Vasylivna, and father Yas Oleksandr Oleksiyovych — in order to assess their financial capacity to purchase real estate and provide a loan of 40 thousand USD.
🔸Engage certified forensic experts (appraisers) to determine the market value of property rights to the apartments and parking space in Sofiivska Borshchahivka village, purchased by Anna Yas 07.03.2025, as well as the value of the right to use the house in Bilohorodka village and the carried-out repair work and furnishings.
🔸Verify compliance with NACP notification deadlines about opening an account in UAB Maneuver LT (Lithuania) and acquiring foreign securities.
🔸 Verify the circumstances of Yas’s use of the house in Bilohorodka village and the conformity of the declaration’s information with the requirements of Art. 46 of the Law on Prevention of Corruption.
🔸If possible violations are found — forward the materials to the General Inspectorate and the Disciplinary and Qualification Commission of Prosecutors.
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