7-year-old son became the owner of an apartment for 6 million. What is known about the Pecherskyi Court judges through whom the “Carthage” figures returned the seized call-center property

“They’re going to wreck our whole business now. Can’t this be resolved properly?” — the SAP prosecutor quotes one of the organizers of the scheme to protect call centers, Andriy Osipov, nicknamed “Kryminal.” The investigation believes he is addressing Volodymyr Tsenov, whom the tapes call “Price,” — the first deputy head of the Strategic Investigations Department of the National Police — asking him to help return the seized property of one of the call centers that paid tribute to the scheme’s participants so law enforcement would leave it alone.

According to SAP prosecutor Mykola Karas, Tsenov did indeed help return the seized property through two judges of the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv — Roman Novak and Tetyana Ostapchuk.

This was reported by Slidstvo.Info

One of the episodes charged to the first deputy head of the police department, Tsenov, is his influence on Pecherskyi Court judges Roman Novak and Tetyana Ostapchuk to produce the desired ruling.

Mykola Karas explained that in early May the Office of the Prosecutor General conducted a search at one of the addresses where a monthly illicit payment was made to the criminal organization so law enforcement would not touch them. The fraudulent call center’s property was seized. Tsenov helped return it. Here is what was recorded on the NABU and SAP tapes:

Osipov: “They’re going to break our whole business now. Can’t this be resolved properly? I gave the command, they’ll remove it now… They’re starting to take out the equipment. Can they not take it?”.

Tsenov: “Not now. The General hasn’t replied. They’ll keep her in Odesa. We’re ready for something reasonable there… I’ll be responsible for it, if anything.”

Tsenov then advised Osipov on the algorithm for returning the property by appealing to the Pecherskyi Court:

Tsenov: “The algorithm: appeal to them with a request to return it, their refusal, your appeal to the court, court decision — return.”

Osipov: “To which court?”.

Tsenov: “Pecherska.”

To guarantee that the case would be assigned to the “right” judge Novak, Tsenov instructed submitting 5 identically formatted complaints through the Pecherskyi court’s general clerical office.

Tsenov: “Do you plus the court?”.

Osipov: “Yes, everything plus.”

Roman Novak is known for having in 2016 removed arrests on multi-million sums in the accounts of two employees of the “All-Ukrainian Development Bank,” which belonged to Yanukovych’s son. He also delayed consideration of a motion to dismiss NABU detective Ruslan Magamedrasulov, who was detained during an attack on NABU. In 2024 Novak declared that his 7-year-old son became the owner of an apartment in Kyiv worth almost 6 million UAH.

5 November at the court hearing where Tsenov’s preventive measure was being chosen, the prosecutor quoted his words recorded on the tapes about the distribution of money for making the decision to return the property: “How much will you throw in? Now they’ll wake up there, those heads. Well 47 comes out: 30 + 10 plus your 7, right?” When a collision arose and the prosecution simultaneously filed a motion to seize the property with another Pecherskyi Court judge, Tetyana Ostapchuk, Tsenov provided instructions on how to block that motion using Novak’s already obtained ruling:

“Please drop the application here with the content I wrote earlier. Let Novak’s ruling be added and ask to refuse.” The investigation believes that to obtain the required decision, Tsenov also influenced Judge Ostapchuk.

Tetyana Ostapchuk is known for having on 8 July 2026 canceled previously imposed arrests on the assets of the Unigran group of companies. The assets featured in a criminal proceeding regarding possible illegal alienation of sanctioned assets. Less than a week later another judge of the same court reinstated the arrests. However, during the time the arrest was lifted, the company could have disposed of its assets.

According to Slidstvo.Info, NABU and SAP have already conducted searches at Novak’s and Ostapchuk’s workplaces in the Pecherskyi Court.

According to SAP prosecutor Mykola Karas, Novak was on sick leave during the searches.