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A house in the village of Markhalivka near Kyiv, registered to the sister of court head Maltsev
New court head
The judge Dmytro Maltsev is 50 years old. He was appointed to the Shevchenkivskyi court by decree of the fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych back in July 2010. Literally a year later the head of that same court filed a complaint to the High Council of Justice alleging Maltsev had violated legal norms. However, that submission was rejected: they found no grounds for dismissal.
Proposal to submit a motion to dismiss Dmytro Maltsev from the position of judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv for violating the oath
In addition to Dmytro Maltsev himself, there are many legally trained people in his family. Dmytro Maltsev’s sons: 23-year-old Nikita, who this year applied for a position as an investigator at the State Bureau of Investigations, and 20-year-old Yaroslav, who at 18 years old registered a sole proprietorship engaged in legal activities.
His wife Olena in 2024 worked at the Shevchenkivskyi district administration. His father-in-law, Petro Karpechkin, until 2010 was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine; his mother-in-law, Valentyna Karpechkina, is now retired and what she did before that is unknown. There is also the wife’s brother — judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv Taras Karpechkin, against whom patrol officers drew up a report for drunk driving in 2016.
The family of Dmytro Maltsev
“Slurred speech, trembling of the hands, strong smell of alcohol from the mouth,” — the patrol officers recorded.
In court Karpechkin presented a hospital certificate stating that no signs of intoxication were found. The court recognized that certificate as proper evidence and declared the police report and witness statements inadmissible and improper evidence, after which it closed the proceedings in the case.
Our attention was also drawn to the fact that Taras Karpechkin uses free of charge a residential house of 320 m² that belongs to his father and to the father-in-law of the head of the Shevchenkivskyi Court of Kyiv, Dmytro Maltsev, in the same Markhalivka near Kyiv.
From 2007 to 2017 this house belonged to Taras Karpechkin’s wife, Tetiana. However, the Public Integrity Council questioned whether the judge’s family had sufficient funds to acquire such a house.
Another house of 158 m² in the same Markhalivka, which is also used by Taras Karpechkin and also belongs to his father, has been listed as “unfinished construction” since 2017.
It seems the Karpechkin and Maltsev families share a tradition: for some reason large houses remain “unfinished” for a very long time.
The house “in four days”
In April 2021 the judge’s sister — 44-year-old Natalia Maltseva — purchased a land plot of nearly 15 sotky in the village of Markhalivka. The sale-purchase agreement on her behalf was signed by the judge’s wife, Olena Maltseva.
Interestingly, a woman with the same full name and date of birth as the judge’s sister, according to data leaks from databases, traveled to Russia and visited occupied Donetsk in 2021.
Olena Maltseva traveled to Russia and visited occupied Donetsk in 2021
They officially paid 1 million 344 thousand hryvnias for the land, which at the exchange rate at the time was about 48,5 thousand dollars or 3252 dollars per sotka. Less than a year after purchasing the land, in March 2022, a satellite image already clearly shows a fully constructed object with a roof.
The house on the land purchased by Olena Maltseva
But the “Notice of commencement of construction work” on that plot is dated 2 September 2022. And just four days later — on 6 September of the same year — a document appears stating the object was ready for operation. That is, on paper this object was “built” in four days.
The next logical step is to commission the house, says architect Oleh Hrechukh. However, that has still not happened.
“This naturally raises questions about how such a construction speed record could be set. We see that if documents were made that quickly, they were probably made after the fact.
The system actually provides some safeguards, like the registrar should check satellite images, ask for photos, ask what it looked like, ask additional questions. Here, apparently, no questions were asked, and somehow it moved so quickly,” — explains architect Oleh Hrechukh.
According to him, the real cost to build such a house could be at least 375 thousand dollars:
“From what I saw, in the declaration of readiness for commissioning the declared cost is 800 thousand hryvnias for all the real estate we see in the documents. This is indeed surprising, because it is not just several times lower. It is more than 10 times less than the absolute minimum cost even for bare walls. Because it is in the Kyiv region, there is a certain price level, and I think that even looking at any year, less than one thousand five hundred dollars (per square meter, — ed.) to build anything like this, to make it like this house, is impossible.”
Where did the money come from?
Did the official purchaser of the land — the judge’s sister Natalia Maltseva — have the money? The facts are: according to Ukrainian registries, Natalia had no business or entrepreneurial activity in Ukraine.
According to database leaks, Natalia Maltseva worked at least until 2023 as an accountant at Oschadbank. This is also confirmed by tags in the Getcontact app. In February 2026 Maltseva picked up a parcel at a post office at Vozdvyzhenska, 52-54 in Kyiv. One of Oschadbank’s branches is located at that address.
The institution itself told us it does not disclose employees’ surnames. However, Natalia confirmed her workplace to us. According to her, the funds for purchasing the land and building the house were family money.
“I had funds to purchase this land plot. It was help from my parents and my personal savings,” — said Natalia Maltseva.
The judge’s mother is 79-year-old Lidiia Maltseva. According to database leaks, in 2023 she received a Russian passport. The document is confirmed on the Russian tax authority’s website. In addition, a woman with the same full name and date of birth, according to database leaks, traveled to Russia in 2021 and 2023.
The judge’s sister Natalia Maltseva told us on the phone that their mother currently resides in Kyiv and has not received a Russian passport.
Leaks from databases indicating that Lidiia Maltseva received a Russian passport in 2021
Judge Dmytro Maltsev reported that his parents lived in occupied Donetsk. This year his father died, and his mother moved to territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.
Asked about his mother’s Russian passport, the new head of the Shevchenkivskyi court said: “I have not discussed this with her, and for me this is news — what you just noted, that she supposedly obtained, or has… I don’t know. But I read in the media, and I even recently read on Radio Svoboda that this is forced passportization.”
There is no registered business or entrepreneurial activity for either the judge’s father, mother, or his sister. Likewise, according to extracts from the property register, before purchasing the land near Kyiv they did not sell any real estate.
But what about the possibility that the judge Maltsev himself or his wife Olena purchased the land and built the house? After all, it was the judge’s wife who signed the sale-purchase agreement for the land on behalf of his sister — an Oschadbank accountant.
Even at the official price of the land, which was 1,3 million hryvnias, according to declarations neither the judge nor his wife had such funds in 2021. In 2020 Maltsev declared half a million hryvnias in cash and 40 thousand hryvnias in a bank account. That was all. In 2021 year, cash increased by 100 thousand. No significant expenditures.
Dmytro Maltsev’s declaration
And the final chord of this story. According to database leaks, the judge’s sister Natalia Maltseva used postal services in Kyiv about a dozen times during 2022-2026 at the post offices at Brovarskyi Avenue, 17 and Mytropolyta Andriia Sheptytskoho, 4A.
Within walking distance of these post offices, at 3V Sheptytskoho Street, is an apartment belonging to the judge’s son Nikita Maltsev — 30 m² — which in 2014 was gifted to him by his maternal grandmother Valentyna Karpechkina.
Also at Andriia Sheptytskoho 20A there is an apartment of Dmytro Maltsev himself of 85 m², which he bought back in 2013. And at Mykilsko-Slobidska 6A there is an apartment of the judge’s father-in-law Petro Karpechkin of 84 m². So it can be assumed that Natalia Maltseva resides in one of these apartments. She in fact confirmed this to us in a phone conversation.
“Yes, I don’t live (in the house in the village of Markhalivka, — ed.). It is inconvenient for me now, I now live in an apartment,” — said Natalia Maltseva.
The apartment where the judge’s sister lives is old housing stock. A perfectly natural exchange: a modern new two-story mansion in a nice suburban area of the capital for a mediocre apartment in a residential district on the Left Bank.
The multi-apartment building where the judge’s sister lives
We also asked Judge Maltsev himself about the source of the funds for the land and the estate’s construction.
“I report all the data concerning the house, my place of residence, in my declaration. What else did you want to know?” — the judge said by phone.
Later Dmytro Oleksandrovych declined a video comment but promised to respond in writing. In it he stated that he indeed moved into his sister’s house at the beginning of 2025. According to the judge, he does not know the value of the house, and neither he nor his wife provided funds to his sister for the purchase of the land plot and the construction. These were partly her personal funds and partly help from their parents, the judge said, adding that his sister, who owns the land and the house, does not live there.
Roman Verbovskyi, lawyer at the Anti-Corruption Center, sees grounds for investigation in the story of the land purchase and unfinished construction.
“Law enforcement here must determine whether the sister or he had funds to buy this property. And if they find that these funds were not sufficient, that the sister purchased the property in the interest of this judge, then liability for illegal enrichment arises.
Since we do not see the true cost of this house and the land plot, there are grounds to turn to NABU for them to verify whether there is a fact of illegal enrichment, because the amount for criminal liability for illegal enrichment must exceed 9 million hryvnias,” — explained Roman Verbovskyi.
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