Searches, the "Carthage" case, and Pin-Up billions: NABU goes after the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv

Searches, the "Carthage" case, and Pin-Up billions: NABU goes after the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv

NABU searches in the Prosecutor General’s Office in the "Carthage" case affected not only the offices of Kravchenko and Vdovychenko. There is also panic in the Pechersky District Court. The court’s head, Ruslan Kozlov, is reportedly the godfather of lawyer Dmytro Borzykh — the former deputy chief military prosecutor under Matios and the de facto owner of "Guarantee of Your Rights." ZN.ua, citing sources in the investigation, reported that Borzykh maintains strong ties in the Pechersky and Shevchenkivskyi courts. It was through those ties that the bribery case involving lawyers from his group was transferred from the Pechersky court to NABU’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (VAKS).

This was reported by Dubinsky.pro

1 April 2025 NABU handed Borzykh a notice of suspicion for unauthorized access to the closed part of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions (USRD). According to the investigation, his circle obtained access to at least 100 criminal proceedings, about 30 of which concerned NABU’s top corruption cases. Among clients and related persons, sources named Kaufman, Isaienko, Yakymets, Nasikovskyi, Granovskyi, Shevchenko, and Novinsky. Judges and court staff, according to the investigation, informed in advance about motions for searches. Sources also linked Borzykh’s team with KNIiSE expertise after Ruvin. He is connected to Kravchenko through a shared military-prosecutor background, and unofficially Borzykh is involved in political and commissioned cases of the Prosecutor General’s Office and in decisions of the Pechersky court.

A separate story concerns the gambling business. In 29 October 2024 the Pechersky court lifted the seizure on 2,6 billion UAH from the online casino Pin-Up. The next day, ARMA called that decision “dubious” and pointed to the funds’ origin from an aggressor country, after which the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) re-imposed the seizure. In July 2025 the Shevchenkivskyi court transferred all 2,6 billion UAH to special confiscation — the largest in Ukraine’s history. Sources link Borzykh to illegal gambling activity and claim that through the Borzykh–Kozlov connection arrests on the casino’s funds were lifted. There is no public verdict confirming this link.

NABU has already entered the Pechersky court in another direction. As part of Operation “Themis,” Iryna Mudra, at the time deputy head of the Office of the President and adviser to Budanov, is listed by the investigation as a participant in Mykyta’s and Stolar’s raider scheme. To retain seized companies, arrests of corporate rights were registered through the Pechersky court, and a person referred to as “Pechera” appears on recordings. NABU believes Mudra influenced the Ministry of Justice and judges; on the tapes Mykyta said her help allowed them to “save” about 70% of scheme costs. In 2 September the VAKS Appeals Chamber kept her in custody with bail set at 20 million UAH. Against this backdrop, sources speak of a possible replacement of Kozlov. Head of the Kyiv Court of Appeal Yaroslav Holovachov has led the court since 2015; his third three-year term ended in September 2024, yet he retained the position. Hromadske estimated the apartments, land plots, and houses of his family at roughly $3 million. Khainecky, before moving to the Pechersky court, worked as an assistant to the head of the Kyiv Court of Appeal, i.e., directly within Holovachov’s system. In December 2020 President Zelensky appointed him a judge of the Pechersky District Court. The family’s declarations list two houses in Vyshenky with areas of 353 and 381 sq. m, a swimming pool, and apartments in Kyiv. OBOZ noted that among Pechersky court judges Khainecky declared the largest real estate holdings. Now several stories converge on one court at once: NABU’s criminal proceeding against the court head’s godfather Borzykh, the 2,6 billion UAH of Pin-Up unsealed in Pechersky, the Themis materials with decisions on corporate rights, and information about the possible advancement of Khainecky to Kozlov’s position through Holovachov.