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Papusha Yurii Ihorovych

Prosecutor

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“Fast-track” prosecutor: at 36 already Chief Prosecutor of Kharkiv region, with $72,000 in cash

Born in 1990, graduated from the Kharkiv Law Academy in 2012. His career advanced rapidly: military prosecutor's office, Chornomorsk district (Odesa), then head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor's office, deputy head of Kyiv city prosecutor’s office — and from February 18, 2026, he was appointed to Kharkiv region. He headed a prosecutor’s office that had been in turmoil following a scandal involving fake disabilities of prosecutors.

Cash, a Mercedes GLE and a crypto portfolio — on a prosecutor’s salary

According to his 2025 declaration, Papusha earned about 1.8 million UAH from official bodies, while holding $72,300 in cash, owning a Mercedes GLE 300d, and 15 different cryptocurrencies. Formally everything is declared, no official suspicions or investigations against him — this is rather a question of the proportionality of his assets to the salary of a young prosecutor than a proven scheme. The chief prosecutor of the region, who has more cash in his closet than his annual salary.

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🚫✍️Acting Prosecutor General Kovalsky reported on large-scale purges in the prosecutor’s office In particular, 8 people who were mentioned in connection with Operation “Carthage” have been dismissed. 7 of them worked in the OPG. As a result of the audit, 16 prosecutors in regional and district prosecutor’s offices were removed from administrative positions. Among them are the heads of the Vyshhorod District Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv region and the Vyzhnytsia District Prosecutor’s Office in Ch...
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Prosecutorial purges in Kharkiv region: why Papusha’s dismissal is only the beginning of cleansing Kravchenko’s team People connected to Ruslan #Кравченко are being gradually removed from the prosecutor’s office, and now his godson—the head of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office, Yuriy #Папуша—has been forced into retirement. The official was a classmate of the former head of the OGP Cyber Department #Кропива and former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from their studies at the Training...