Mykhailenko Dmytro Hryhorovych

Deputy Chair of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) and the court’s main specialist on civil confiscation of assets

Doctor of Law, formerly a lawyer; judge of the HACC Appeals Chamber since the court's launch in 2019 (passed the competition assessed by GRECO international experts, scoring approximately 694 points). On March 25, 2026, elected Deputy Chair of the HACC — alongside Strohyi. His specialization is the recognition of assets as unjustified: he explains, using court decision examples, how to "civilly confiscate" officials’ property, even when it has been "transformed" into other assets.

Not the owner of estates, but the one who confiscates them from officials

His appellate panel handles high-profile cases — notably keeping former Energy Minister Halushchenko in custody in the "Midas" case. There is no publicly available compromising material on Mykhailenko himself — no links with Russia, undeclared assets, suspicions, or disciplinary scandals; he passed the international expert competition filter without "red flags." One of the rare cases where it is more appropriate to look for the hero of this series on the opposite side of the judge's bench.