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Lately more and more questions have arisen about this judge – including from NABU detectives and SAP prosecutors. This servant of Themis appears in two high-profile cases. One of the latest is the special operation “Forrest Gump,” whose materials mention his possible unlawful influence on judges to delay the hearing on canceling sanctions against Petro Poroshenko. According to the investigation, as reported by the media outlet Slidstvo.info, the court session scheduled for 3 April 2026 was possibly deliberately thwarted by an urgently approved leave for Judge Olga Kashpur. The published recordings of conversations also mention communication between former Deputy Head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudra and Ihor Dashutin. In addition, according to Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, on 19 August 2026, as part of the large-scale anti-corruption operation “Femida,” NABU detectives and SAP prosecutors conducted searches at the judge’s residence.
So, at the center of our attention is Ihor Volodymyrovych Dashutin, head of the Cassation Administrative Court within the Supreme Court. However, the aforementioned cases do not exhaust the list of questions about him and his close circle. Another troubling family connection has surfaced – to the Dominion business center in the capital, where journalists and law enforcement discovered a fraudulent call center.
As we wrote earlier, the actual beneficiaries of the business center are the family of the judge’s cousin uncle – former MP Hryhoriy Dashutin. But that is not all.
As Ukrainska Pravda writes, Hryhoriy Dashutin is the owner of the Nicmas conglomerate, whose enterprises, according to the SBI, even after the start of the full-scale war supplied products to the Russian military-industrial complex through Turkey – in particular for missile systems and armored trains.
And where would this be without a taste for the expensive and luxurious? Investigators at Bihus.Info have already written about an estate in an elite gated cottage community that was initially registered to the judge’s mother-in-law and later transferred to the daughter. The family’s car fleet is similarly telling: Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Range Rover – makes and models change, but the price category remains consistently high.
“Forrest Gump” and leave on the right day?
Ihor Dashutin’s name appeared in the materials of the high-profile NABU and SAP special operation “Forrest Gump.” According to information voiced by MP Nina Yuzhanina during a meeting of the parliamentary temporary investigative commission, detectives are checking the possible involvement of the head of the Cassation Administrative Court in unlawful influence on other judges.
This concerns Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit to annul the sanctions imposed on him. The announcement of the decision was scheduled for 3 April 2026, but the day before Judge Olga Kashpur filed a leave request that Ihor Dashutin approved. At the same time, Yuzhanina said that the court website showed a redistribution of cases to Kashpur on 3 April – that is, on the day she was supposedly absent.
In recordings of conversations between former Deputy Head of the President’s Office Iryna Mudra and Maksym Mykytas as part of the same “Forrest Gump” operation, the phrase “I talked with Dashutin” was heard. Yuzhanina believes that approving the leave could have helped artificially delay the case and create additional time for possible influence on judges.
Additionally, as Obozrevatel reports, on 19 August 2026 NABU detectives conducted searches at Dashutin’s residence as part of another anti-corruption operation – “Femida.” As of 2 September, the judge had not been notified of any suspicion. Thus, the final legal assessment of his actions should be given by the investigation, but the mere appearance of the head of the Cassation Administrative Court in such a high-profile story only raises more questions about his conduct.
Why activists began to talk about the case being “let go”
As early as 14 March 2023 journalists from StopCor reported the exposure of an office of a pseudo-investment company operating in the Dominion business center on Ushynskoho Street, 40. At that time, about 40 so-called brokers were present in the premises, who could have extorted money from citizens, including people left in temporarily occupied territories.
However, it is difficult to call this story a sudden discovery. The police officers who arrived in response to journalists and activists said that in the previous year alone they had made about 15 trips to that address. In other words, the office had been in law enforcement’s field of view for a long time, yet despite that it continued to operate.
Moreover, already in May 2022 the Dnipro Police Department investigated the activities of a group of persons at the same address. After the March exposure, activists filed another report with the police, registered under EO number 9952. However, according to information received by StopCor’s editorial office, details of the possible crime were not entered into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations. And without that, a full pretrial investigation could not properly begin.
At the beginning of April activists again went to the business center and saw that the office was still operating. According to our journalists, there were not one but at least two similar call centers operating in the building, and the large-scale scheme could have involved about 150 people. It was precisely the systematic inaction of law enforcement – despite numerous responses, searches, reports and publications – that led an activist to suggest the case was being deliberately “let go.”
But special attention deserves the place where this activity took place. According to media reports and open registries, the actual beneficiaries of BC Dominion, the construction of which at one time was recognized as illegal, are representatives of the family of former MP of the third and fourth convocations Hryhoriy Dashutin – the cousin uncle of Ihor Dashutin.
There is currently no confirmed data linking the judge himself to the call center’s activities. However, given the office’s prolonged operation, numerous police responses, and wide public publicity, it is logical to ask: did Ihor Dashutin know what was happening in his relative’s business center? Did he maintain communication with Hryhoriy Dashutin during that period? Did they discuss the situation around Dominion? Did the judge contact law enforcement after information about possible fraud became public? And finally – could the owners or beneficiaries of such a large business center really fail to notice offices employing dozens, possibly hundreds, of workers for years?
The Dashutins and the Russian military-industrial complex: what does the judge’s uncle have to do with it?
Let us be clear from the start: this section concerns not Judge Ihor Dashutin, but his cousin uncle – former MP Hryhoriy Dashutin. It will discuss the activities of the Nicmas conglomerate and the supply of its products to Russia even during the period of full-scale invasion.
Hryhoriy Dashutin for a long time led an industrial group that included enterprises in Sumy and Poltava. According to the SBI, even before the start of the full-scale war, 95% of the conglomerate’s products were exported to Russian state enterprises. After 24 February 2022 the direction allegedly did not disappear – only the logistics changed. According to UP, the investigation claimed that a scheme through Turkey was organized to continue supply. According to law enforcement, close relatives of the conglomerate’s owner, company management, and Russian citizens were involved. Overall, the investigation identified at least 14 participants.
According to the SBI’s version, cited by Argument, Hryhoriy Dashutin’s son Artem was responsible for production at enterprises in Poltava and Sumy, while daughter Viktoriia coordinated cooperation with Russian companies through a firm in Istanbul. From the start of the full-scale war until November 2022 the group’s enterprises may have sold products for the Russian military-industrial complex worth over 160 million UAH. Other reports at an early stage of the investigation mentioned an amount of at least 190 million UAH.
Among the end recipients of components, law enforcement named Russian enterprises working for the defense sector, including those producing parts for missile systems and armored trains used in Donetsk and Zaporizhia.
In November 2022 the SBI announced blocking the conglomerate’s operations and seizing its assets. The measures targeted factories, real estate, transport and other property with a total value of over one billion hryvnias. In June 2023, Hryhoriy Dashutin and members of management were detained. The former MP spent about a year in pretrial detention, after which the court changed his preventive measure.
Finances don’t sing romances for the judge?
Ihor Dashutin’s career growth significantly affected his official income. In 2015, while heading the Sumy District Court, he received 228,6 thousand UAH in salary and slightly more than 14 thousand UAH for teaching activities, as indicated in his declaration on the NAPC website. In 2018 his judicial salary was already 363,2 thousand UAH.
The real financial leap occurred after his appointment to the Cassation Administrative Court within the Supreme Court. In 2019 Dashutin received more than 2,2 million UAH in salary at the Supreme Court and nearly 330 thousand UAH at the Sumy District Court. In 2020 his Supreme Court earnings rose to 2,9 million UAH, and since 2021 his judicial salary has consistently exceeded 4 million UAH per year.
Such growth by itself has a perfectly understandable explanation – moving to a much better-paid position. However, alongside the income, the family’s savings and standard of living began to increase rapidly.
If in 2018 the judge declared 100 thousand UAH in cash, by 2019 he declared 40 thousand dollars. In 2020 Ihor Dashutin declared 50 thousand dollars, and his unmarried partner Anna – 60 thousand dollars. In 2021 the family’s foreign currency savings grew to 135 thousand dollars: 70 thousand in the judge and 65 thousand in his partner.
But particularly interesting is the dynamics of Anna Dashutina’s income. In 2021 she declared 461,5 thousand UAH in salary at DBP Real Estate LLC. In 2022 her salary fell to 92,7 thousand UAH, and in 2023 it was 74,5 thousand UAH. She also received nearly 46 thousand UAH as maternity-related assistance.
Then in 2024 the judge’s wife declared immediately 2,8 million UAH in income from entrepreneurial activity. In 2025 this figure grew more than threefold – to a record 9,27 million UAH.
Entrepreneurial income alone does not indicate a violation. Still, such rapid growth naturally raises questions: what exactly was Anna Dashutina doing, who were her main clients, and how did her income increase by more than 6,4 million UAH in less than a year?
Family financial operations are no less interesting. In 2025 the judge declared receiving a monetary gift from his mother amounting to 2,9 million UAH. That same year the judge gifted his wife 6,9 million UAH. At the end of the year the family declared 5,9 million UAH in cash: 2,1 million in the judge and 3,8 million in his wife. At the same time, Anna Dashutina took out a loan at Oschadbank for 3,42 million UAH.
For objectivity it is worth noting that in 2022 the judge declared expenditures supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine totaling over one million hryvnias.
Fans of expensive cars
Ihor Dashutin’s property status has already attracted investigative journalists’ attention. In 2024 Bihus.Info reported that the judge and his wife, formally without owning real estate, used relatives’ assets.
In particular, journalists recorded regular trips by Dashutin to a house in one of Kyiv’s most expensive gated cottage communities – Konik. Such estates of about 150 m² at that time cost at least 18,5 million UAH. The house was registered to the judge’s mother-in-law, Oksana Liashchova.
Dashutin then explained that he only visited his mother-in-law and lived in his mother’s apartment of 190,6 m² in the capital business-class complex “Soniachna Brama.” However, journalists discovered that the apartment was listed for sale and after their inquiry the listing disappeared. In 2025 the family resolved the housing issue simply: the Konik estate was officially transferred into the judge’s wife’s ownership. Its approximate market value is now estimated at about 480–495 thousand dollars.
That same year Anna Dashutina became the owner of a non-residential premises of 295 m² and two land plots in Klavdiievo-Tarasove, on which the aforementioned house and non-residential premises are located.
The family’s car story is no less telling.
Already in 2016, according to the declaration, Dashutin purchased a Toyota Camry for 840 thousand UAH, partially financed by a loan. In 2019 he was granted the free use of a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 that belonged to the future mother-in-law. In 2020 the judge leased an Audi Q5 worth more than 1,5 million UAH, and the next year replaced it with an Audi A8 for 2,51 million UAH.
In 2023 Dashutin completed payments for the Audi A8 and registered the car in his name. That same year he bought a 2022 model year Toyota Camry for 1,27 million UAH. The judge’s wife meanwhile gained the right to use a Mercedes-Benz GLE400D worth 3,93 million UAH registered to her mother.
In 2024 Dashutin began using an Audi Q8 worth 4,25 million UAH that belonged to his mother, and also leased a Volkswagen Arteon.
By March 2025 his wife became the owner of a new Land Rover Range Rover Sport. The declared value of the car was 7,25 million UAH, while the average market price for a similar model is about 150 thousand dollars. That same year the judge’s mother purchased an Audi Q3 2025 model year with an approximate value of about 35 thousand dollars.
In 2026 Ihor Dashutin obtained the right to use an Audi Q7 50 TDI quattro 2026 model year, the average value of which is approximately 100 thousand dollars.
The encumbrance registry lists a financial leasing agreement with Porsche Leasing Ukraine LLC with a principal obligation of 4,72 million UAH.
There is also much to tell about the property of the judge’s mother – Tetyana Pylypivna Dashutina, according to real estate registry data, who owns several land plots in Kyiv region.
In particular, land plots in Obukhiv district, Vasylkiv city:
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Land plots in Bucha district, Irpin city:
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Land plot in Sumy city, 0.0226 ha (a house is built on this plot)
Land plot.
Tetyana Pylypivna also owns a non-residential premises in Irpin, Mechnykova Street, building ***/*, total area 210.3 m2, purchased in 2025.
Another non-residential premises nearby at: Irpin, Mechnykova Street, building 101, total area 311.3 m2, purchased in 2025. Also two non-residential premises in Vasylkiv at Kyivskyi Shliakh Avenue, buildings ***-*, total area 50 m2, purchased in 2024; and a premises on Kyivskyi Shliakh Avenue, building ***-*, total area 53.1 m2, purchased in 2024.
In Sumy the woman owns a house on Veretenivska Street, building 1/**, total area 133.4 m2, purchased in 2015 and another house in the village Ryabyna, Krasina Street, building **. At the last address is LLC NIVA, whose director in the past was the judge’s father, Volodymyr Dashutin.
So what’s the conclusion?
Ihor Dashutin’s story consists of several threads, each of which alone does not yet prove wrongdoing by the judge. A relative accused of supplying products to the Russian military-industrial complex does not make the nephew guilty. A fraudulent call center in his uncle’s business center does not prove the judge knew about its activities. Expensive property, loans, leasing, and million-hryvnia incomes are also not automatic evidence of illicit enrichment.
But when all these stories form a single picture, many more questions arise.
The fraudulent offices on Ushynskoho Street, 40, had been in the police’s field of view at least since 2022. In just one year law enforcement made about 15 trips to that address. On 14 March 2023 journalists and activists publicly documented the activity of one of the call centers, yet by early April the office continued to operate.
So could Ihor Dashutin have known what was happening in his cousin uncle’s business center? Likewise, there is no confirmation that he was involved in Nicmas’s activities or helped Hryhoriy Dashutin after the start of criminal proceedings. But for the head of one of the cassation courts within the Supreme Court, even a potential conflict of interest or close contacts with a figure in such a high-profile proceeding is a matter of public importance.
Therefore we expect concrete answers from Ihor Dashutin to specific questions: does he maintain relations with Hryhoriy Dashutin; did he know about the call centers in Dominion; did relatives or their representatives turn to him for help; how to explain the rapid growth of his wife’s entrepreneurial income; and do the family’s expenditures correspond to declared sources of funds.
Because for an ordinary citizen such coincidences might remain a private matter. But when it concerns the head of the Cassation Administrative Court within the Supreme Court – silence no longer removes questions. It only leaves more room for new ones.
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