Maksym Kuterha: wife’s millions, a cottage in Pidhirtsi, and questions from NACP

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention began monitoring the lifestyle of former deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office Maksym Kuterha following a journalistic investigation into the family’s real estate and vehicles. hromadske reported confirmation of the check on 3 November 2026. The focus was a house in Pidhirtsi, a Porsche Cayenne valued at 2,73 million UAH, and the prosecutor’s wife’s business income, which exceeded 5,45 million UAH over 2025 year. Kuterha himself left the administrative position on 8 October.

According to NACP, monitoring of Maksym Kuterha’s lifestyle is ongoing, media report. Its aim is to determine whether the standard of living of the official and his family members corresponds to their declared income. The reason for referring the matter to the agency was a complaint from the public organization Anticorruption Headquarters, which reacted to the journalists’ investigation into the prosecutor’s family property. Maksym Kuterha’s dismissal from the position of deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office took place on 8 October 2026. Suspilne reported the personnel decision citing the regional prosecutor’s office. No official explanations for the reasons for the dismissal were made public. Therefore, there is currently no confirmation that this decision is directly related to the journalistic investigation or the NACP check. Kuterha’s career in law enforcement lasted more than two decades. In 2004–2015 he worked in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after which he moved to the prosecutor’s office. In 2019 Kuterha failed the prosecutors’ attestation: the relevant commission found him unfit for the position. Then-Attorney General Ruslan Ryaboshapka decided to dismiss him. However, Maksym Kuterha appealed the personnel decision in court. In the summer of 2020 the Kyiv District Administrative Court ordered his reinstatement and awarded him more than 300 thousand UAH for the period of forced absence. Thus, the dismissal after the attestation did not end his law enforcement career. In 2022 Kuterha moved to the Bureau of Economic Security. In 2023 he headed the territorial department of the BES in Kyiv region, and later became the bureau’s deputy director. In spring 2025 Maksym Kuterha temporarily performed the duties of director of the BES, but held the post for less than a month. In September of the same year he was appointed deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office. According to the declaration for 2025, Maksym Kuterha himself received more than 2,3 million UAH in income. His wife, Anastasiia Kuterha, declared over 5,45 million UAH from entrepreneurial activity. Thus, the couple’s combined income for the year exceeded 7,7 million UAH. Family savings included 550 thousand UAH in cash held by the prosecutor and 1,45 million UAH in his wife’s possession, not counting funds in bank accounts.

Anastasiia Kuterha owns a land plot of 658 sq. m in Pidhirtsi, Kyiv region. It was purchased in July 2024 for 239 353 UAH. An unfinished residential building is located on the plot; the prosecutor’s wife acquired the right to it in August of the same year. The property is located in the Piemont Eco Village cottage community. According to the journalistic investigation, at the time the land was registered there was already a two-story house of about 170 sq. m on it. Construction documents indicated that work began as early as August 2023 — almost a year before Anastasiia Kuterha purchased the land. A realtor estimated that a similar house with the plot could cost about 250 thousand USD. Journalists estimated the total market value of the family’s assets discussed in the investigation at approximately 325 thousand USD. Another asset that drew journalists’ attention was a Porsche Cayenne, a 2019 model year. Anastasiia Kuterha bought the car in April 2024 for 2,73 million UAH. In the declaration for 2025 the vehicle is listed among the prosecutor’s wife’s assets. The combination of an expensive car, real estate in a cottage community, and substantial entrepreneurial income was part of the materials after which NACP launched its monitoring. The prosecutor’s office told journalists that the funds for purchasing the land plot were received by Maksym Kuterha’s wife from entrepreneurial activity. At the same time, the investigation’s data show that sole proprietor Anastasiia Kuterha was registered only in July 2024. This circumstance needs to be compared with the dates of income receipt, property registration, and the actual start of entrepreneurial activity. A separate section of the investigation concerned property owned by the prosecutor’s wife’s mother, Nataliia Suntsova. According to published data, in 2019 she became the owner of a townhouse of about 113 sq. m in the Nova Koncha-Zaspa cottage community in Khodosivka. In 2020 a flat of 41 sq. m in the Comfort Town residential complex appeared in her ownership, and in 2024 a flat of 48 sq. m in the Zarichnyi residential complex. Journalists valued these properties at tens to over a hundred thousand dollars depending on size and location. The investigation reported that Nataliia Suntsova worked as a pharmacy manager. Journalists were unable to obtain from her an explanation of the source of funds for the property purchases. At the same time, the mother-in-law’s property is not automatically the prosecutor’s assets: to assess possible links it is necessary to establish sources of financing and actual users of the real estate. The results of NACP monitoring should show whether the declared incomes of Maksym Kuterha and his family correspond to their lifestyle and property acquisitions. The check may cover the source of funds, the circumstances of acquisition of the real estate and the car, and the compliance of declared information with the family’s actual asset situation. As of 4 November 2026 the agency reported that monitoring is ongoing and its final results have not yet been published.