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🔈 The case against former Deputy Prosecutor General Dmytro Verbytskyi for illicit enrichment has been stuck at the evidence-gathering stage for three years. NABU has not issued any charges.
⚖️ Meanwhile, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv ordered NACP to remove the notice about his assets from its website.
The proceeding was opened after investigations by the program “Skhemy” in May–June 2024 of that year. Journalists described a townhouse in the Konik cottage community, which was registered to Verbytskyi’s nephew. According to the investigation, the property was worth about half a million dollars, but it was purchased for one-sixth of the market price. The report also detailed assets belonging to Khrystyna Ilnytska — the official’s girlfriend: a cottage, a Porsche, and a beauty salon. The total value of these assets was estimated at 48 million hryvnias. Her official income over ten years amounted to 360 thousand hryvnias. According to the material, NABU detectives had seen this evidence even before publication.
During monitoring, NACP initially found that Verbytskyi had unexplained assets worth 29 million hryvnias: a Lexus, a Porsche, land plots, cryptocurrency, and property in Turkey. The agency later added 30,2 million hryvnias of illicit enrichment and 2,3 million hryvnias of false information in the declaration for 2023 year. All materials were transferred to NABU.
The key asset — the cottage that Ilnytska 29 in May 2024 of that year gifted to the mother of Liubov Skrypnyk — as of August 2026 of that year was not seized.
NABU Director Semen Kryvonos said at a briefing that the investigation is ongoing: expert examinations have been ordered, and requests for international legal assistance have been made. He emphasized that a criminal proceeding does not necessarily end with charges and can be closed if there is insufficient evidence.
Lawyer and former SAP prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytskyi believes the case is effectively being “buried” and may never reach trial. The article names several theories about why this happened: Verbytskyi’s friendship with the son of the head of NABU’s D2 unit, Borys Indychenko; a personal request from then- Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin to SAP head Oleksandr Klymenko; and the anticipation of political changes.
At the same time, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, in a ruling by Judge Yevhen Khainatskyi, ordered NACP to remove from its website information about discovered unexplained assets totaling 29 million hryvnias and to publish a retraction. The court reasoned that there is no verdict against Verbytskyi and that the agency’s wording was “too categorical.” A linguistic expert examination commissioned by the defense confirmed this. NACP can still file an appeal.
The court did not establish Verbytskyi’s guilt. This concerns an unfinished pretrial investigation and a civil-law dispute over NACP’s published findings.
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