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The family of police colonel Volodymyr Tsenov, who is suspected of participating in a criminal organization and receiving unlawful benefits in the "Carthage" case, owns three houses, three apartments, and four hectares of land. Most of this property the figure and his relatives explained as years of family savings.
This is reported in an investigation by Hromadske. Volodymyr Tsenov is 40 years old; since 2015 he has held leadership positions in law enforcement — first in the Department of Internal Security of the National Police, later in the Department of Strategic Investigations, where since 2025 he became first deputy chief. In the materials of the "Carthage" operation he appears under the nickname "Price." According to the investigation, from January to July 2026 he received money so that the police would not touch specific fraudulent call centers, and also helped return equipment seized from call centers through the courts. On 6 November, "Price" was released on bail of 15 million hryvnias — most of the funds were posted by his father, former senior Ministry of Internal Affairs official Mykola Tsenov.
The eldest son of Mykola Tsenov, 51-year-old Dmytro Tsenov, also a former senior police official, headed the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv region, and in 2019 he resigned amid the killing of a five-year-old boy in Pereiaslav, who was shot during shooting by drunk men, among whom were police officers.
Tsenov family property
According to the outlet, an estate of 571 m² in the village of Kryukivshchyna near Kyiv has been owned by Tsenov since 2003, and an apartment in the capital in the residential complex "Perlyna Kadetskoho Hai" of 59 m² and worth almost 500 thousand hryvnias he bought in 2011 — he also explained this purchase as "family savings accumulated over a long period." His father Mykola Tsenov, who is 68 years old, also worked for many years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system and retired in 2010.
The Tsenov law-enforcement dynasty accumulated the following assets over the years:
a house of 240 m² that appeared in the ownership of the eldest son Dmytro Tsenov
an estate of 571 m² in Kryukivshchyna owned by Volodymyr Tsenov
an apartment in the Pecherskyi district of Kyiv, which the father and mother bought in 2010
an apartment in the residential complex "Perlyna Kadetskoho Hai," purchased by Volodymyr Tsenov in 2011
an apartment of 173 m² in the same complex, which the father bought for himself in 2015
four hectares of land in Kyiv region, purchased in 2018 and gifted to the eldest son in 2024
a house and plot in Hatne that Mykola Tsenov bought in 2022 for more than 7,3 million hryvnias
Volodymyr Tsenov explained his own real estate to journalists as follows:
"The work was carried out in stages, as funds became available, and lasted many years. Several generations of the family participated in financing the construction.
They were detained and remanded in custody within days
Volodymyr Tsenov was detained on 4 November 2026, and the next day the court remanded him in custody with the possibility to post bail of 15 million hryvnias — the money was posted on 6 November. The "Carthage" case covers a broader circle of suspects: according to NABU, members of the organization provided cover for fraudulent call centers, drug sales, and illegal manufacture of counterfeit products using current senior officials of the SBU, the Office of the Prosecutor General, and the National Police.
Earlier Informator reported that the "Alpha" special unit tried to prevent the detention of SBU General Duka, who is also suspected in this case — the head of the department of NABU detectives described several hours of confrontation with armed guards on the general's estate. We also wrote that among SBU employees appeals were circulating urging people to urgently contribute to bail for Duka, for whom the High Anti-Corruption Court set a preventive measure with the possibility to post 65 million hryvnias. In addition, Informator wrote that President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the Rada to reinstate asset declarations for all SBU employees, calling the scandal around the "Carthage" case shameful.
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