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A house in the village of Markhalivka near Kyiv, registered to the sister of court chair Maltsev
The new head of the court
The judge himself, Dmytro Maltsev, is 50 years old. He was appointed to the Shevchenkivskyi Court by decree of the fleeing president Viktor Yanukovych back in July 2010. Literally a year later, the head of that same court filed a complaint with the High Council of Justice alleging that Maltsev had violated legal norms. However, that submission was dismissed: they did not see grounds for dismissal.
A proposal to submit dismissal proceedings against Dmytro Maltsev from the position of judge of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv for violating his oath
In addition to Dmytro Maltsev himself, his family includes several people with legal professions. Dmytro Maltsev’s sons: 23-year-old Nikita, who applied this year for a position as an investigator at the State Bureau of Investigations, and 20-year-old Yaroslav, who opened a sole proprietorship engaged in legal activities at the age of 18.
His wife Olena in 2024 worked at the Shevchenkivskyi district administration. His father-in-law — Petro Karpechkin — was, until 2010, 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 his wife’s brother — Kharkiv Commercial Court judge Taras Karpechkin, about whom patrol officers drew up a protocol for drunk driving in 2016.
The family of Dmytro Maltsev
“Unclear speech, trembling of the fingers, a strong smell of alcohol from the oral cavity,” — the patrol officers recorded.
At the court, Karpechkin provided a hospital certificate stating that no signs of intoxication were found. The court considered that certificate to be proper evidence, and deemed the police protocol and witness statements to be improper and inadmissible evidence, after which it closed the proceedings in the case.
But 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 the 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 Taras Karpechkin also uses and which also belongs to his father, has been classified 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 “built in four days”
In April 2021, the judge’s sister — 44-year-old Natalya Maltseva — purchased a plot of almost 15 sotky in the village of Markhalivka. The sale contract was executed on her behalf 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 database leaks, traveled to Russia and was in occupied Donetsk in 2021.
Olena Maltseva traveled to Russia and was in occupied Donetsk in 2021
They officially paid 1 million 344 thousand hryvnias for the land, which 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 plot purchased by Olena Maltseva
However, the “Notice of the start of construction works” on that plot is dated 2 September 2022. And just four days later — 6 September of the same year — a document appears declaring the object ready for operation. In other words, according to the documents, this object was “built” in four days.
The next logical step is to commission the house, says architect Oleh Hrechukh. However, that has not happened to this day.
“This, of course, raises questions about how such a construction speed record could be set. We see that if documents are prepared that quickly, they were probably made after the fact.
The system actually has some safeguards, like the registrar should check satellite images, ask for photos to see what it looks like, ask some additional questions. Here, apparently, no questions were asked; somehow it moved so quickly,” — explains architect Oleh Hrechukh.
According to him, the real cost of constructing such a house could be at least 375 thousand dollars:
“From what I saw, the declared cost in the declaration of readiness for commissioning is 800 thousand hryvnias for the entire property we see in the documents. That is truly surprising, because it is not just several times lower. It is over 10 times less than the minimum cost even for bare walls. Since it is in the Kyiv region, there is a certain price level, and I think that even for any year, less than one and a half thousand dollars (per square meter, — ed.) to build something like this, to make it look like this house, is impossible.”
Where did the money come from?
Did the official buyer of the land — the judge’s sister Natalya Maltseva — have the funds? The facts are these: according to Ukrainian registries, Natalya had no business or entrepreneurial activity in Ukraine.
According to database leaks, Natalya Maltseva worked at least until 2023 as an accountant at Oschadbank. This is also supported by tags in the Getcontact app. In February 2026 she picked up a parcel at a post office at the address Vozdvyzhenska, 52-54 in Kyiv. One of Oschadbank’s branches is located at that address.
The bank told us they do not disclose employee names. However, Natalya herself confirmed her place of work to us. According to her, the funds for purchasing the land and building the house were family money.
“I had the funds to purchase this plot. It was help from my parents and my personal savings,” — said Natalya Maltseva.
The judge’s mother — 79-year-old Lidiia Maltseva. According to database leaks, in 2023 she received a Russian passport. The document is confirmed on the Russian tax service 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 Natalya Maltseva said in a phone conversation that their mother is currently in Kyiv and has not received a Russian passport.
Database leaks 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.
In response to a question about his mother’s Russian passport, the new head of the Shevchenkivskyi Court said: “I have not discussed this with her, and this is news to me — what you just mentioned, that she allegedly received, or has… I do not know. But I look at the media and even recently read on ‘Radio Free Europe’ that this is forced passportization.”
There is no registered business or entrepreneurial activity for the judge’s father, mother, or sister. Also, according to real estate registry extracts, before purchasing the plot near Kyiv, they did not sell any real estate objects.
What about the possibility that the judge Maltsev and his wife Olena themselves bought the land and built the house? After all, it was the judge’s wife who signed the sale contract for the plot on behalf of the judge’s sister — an Oschadbank accountant.
Even at the official land price, which was 1,3 million hryvnias, such funds were not reflected in the judge’s or his wife’s declarations in 2021. In 2020 Maltsev declared half a million hryvnias in cash and 40 thousand hryvnias in a bank account. And that was all. In 2021 the cash amount 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 Natalya Maltseva used postal services in Kyiv at addresses Prospekt Brovarskyi, 17 and Mytropolyta Andriia Sheptytskoho, 4A about a dozen times during 2022-2026.
Within walking distance of those post offices, at Sheptytskoho Street 3V, 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 belonging to 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 Natalya Maltseva lives in one of these apartments. In fact, she confirmed this to us in a phone conversation.
“Yes, I don’t live (in the house in the village of Markhalivka, — ed.). It’s inconvenient for me now, I currently live in an apartment,” — said Natalya Maltseva.
The apartment where the judge’s sister lives is an old housing stock. A predictable exchange: a modern new two-story mansion in a nice suburb of the capital for a mediocre apartment in a residential area on the Left Bank.
The apartment building where the judge’s sister lives
We also asked Judge Maltsev himself about the source of funds for the land and the estate’s construction.
“I submit all the data concerning the house, my place of residence, in the declaration. What else did you want to find out?” — the judge said by phone.
Later Dmytro Oleksandrovych refused a video comment but promised to reply in writing. In it he stated that he did indeed move to his sister’s house at the beginning of 2025. According to the judge, he does not know the cost of the house, and neither he nor his wife provided funds to his sister for the purchase of the plot or construction. These were partly her personal funds and partly help from their parents, the judge said, adding that the sister who owns the land and the house does not live there.
Roman Verbovskyi, a lawyer at the Anti-Corruption Center, sees grounds for an investigation in the story of the land purchase and the unfinished construction.
“Law enforcement must find out whether the sister or he had the money to buy this property. And if they find that these funds were not sufficient, that the sister bought the property specifically in the interest of this judge, then liability for illegal enrichment arises.
Since we do not see the true value of this house and the plot, there are grounds to turn to NABU to check whether there is a fact of illegal enrichment, because the amount threshold for criminal liability for illegal enrichment must exceed 9 million hryvnias,” — explained Roman Verbovskyi.
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