An official of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Petrov, is hiding millions in assets from the public

An official of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Petrov, is hiding millions in assets from the public

The Deputy Head of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Dmytro Petrov, managed to remove his income declaration from the NAPC system to hide his luxurious lifestyle from the public.

This is stated in the NAPC declarations registry.

Dmytro Petrov is one of the least public officials. He began working in the prosecutor’s office in 2006, right after graduating from the National Academy of Prosecutors. In December 2011, he was appointed as the prosecutor of Koropsky district in the Chernihiv region by the order of Viktor Pshonka, after which his career quickly advanced. By November 2014, he already held a position in the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, where he stayed until 2019.

Petrov was supposed to undergo testing as part of the prosecutors’ certification on October 23-24, but he was hospitalized at the Kyiv City Clinical Endocrinology Center. The personnel commission rescheduled the exam for November 4, but the prosecutor again did not appear for the retake. On November 7 (after the exam date), Petrov sent another letter to the GPU stating he was hospitalized until November 5.

Prosecutor Petrov suddenly became ill on the first day of the exam and recovered the day after all additional exam terms ended! The commission did not believe in such a coincidence and dismissed the prosecutor, and now the court did not believe his version of events either, as it denied his appeal for reinstatement.

Petrov spent over two years engaged in unknown activities, possibly enjoying mansions and massively purchasing land plots. Everything changed on January 4, 2022, when he got a job at the migration service department in the Zhytomyr region. In two months, he achieved a transfer to the Central Interregional Migration Service Department in Kyiv, and by December 2022, he became the third deputy head (the position was created specifically for him). There, he was involved in crazy corruption schemes.

In November 2024, after another attempt to appeal, the court “unexpectedly” took his side, deemed the dismissal unlawful, and obligated the prosecution to reinstate him with compensation for “forced absenteeism” amounting to around 1 million UAH.

After returning to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the NAPC quickly removed Dmytro Petrov’s declarations from public access.

The Higher Anti-Corruption Court required NABU to open a criminal case against Dmytro Petrov under Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code, and another case was opened by the State Bureau of Investigations under the same Article 368-5, as well as under Part 3 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code.

Dmytro Petrov declared about 10 million UAH in cash.

Officially, Petrov resides in the village of Khodosivka, Obukhiv district (a wealthy suburb of Kyiv). His wife is Luydmila Prykhodko, and his son is Volodymyr. Petrov indicated ownership of two houses measuring 222.1 square meters (September 13, 2017) and 150.4 square meters (August 15, 2018). The value of the property is not indicated, location is "unknown," which could indicate incomplete declaration filling.

Non-residential premises (wife’s property):

• 48.4 square meters (September 23, 2019) - valued at 1.95 million UAH
• 54.1 square meters (October 4, 2019) - valued at 1.13 million UAH

The family owns 54 land plots purchased from May 2021 to August 2022, with only one belonging to the prosecutor. The total amount for the 53 plots with specified value is 3.85 million UAH. Many plots of 20,000 square meters were purchased in December 2021 at around 76,498 UAH each (a very low price for the Kyiv region).

Prosecutor Petrov owns a Volvo XC (2021) for 1.72 million UAH, a Renault Sandero (2021) for 490 thousand UAH, and his wife owns a Volvo XC90 (2021) for 2 million UAH.

Petrov had an FDG18.1K3 generator for 263 thousand UAH, and his wife had a Rolex for 242 thousand UAH.

Petrov’s salary for 2022 was 620 thousand UAH. He also received income from alienating property: 416 thousand UAH (from Klyova P.M.), 180 thousand UAH (from Tokarsky O.A.). Additionally, he mentioned receiving social assistance of 10.3 thousand UAH.

His wife Prykhodko earned:

• Entrepreneurial income: 822 thousand UAH
• Property rent: 453 thousand UAH
• Income from alienation of property: 1.67 million UAH
• "eSupport": 6.5 thousand UAH

Petrov stated that he has 74.3 thousand dollars in cash. His wife has 20 thousand British pounds, 132 thousand dollars, and 89 thousand euros (all approximately 10 million UAH).

Moreover, on December 2, 2024, Petrov submitted a declaration before his dismissal. Here, the situation was different. Sections on real estate, movable property, income, cash assets, financial liabilities, etc., were marked as "information not available." This could be because the declaration before dismissal doesn’t require re-declaring property or income unless they have changed since the previous annual declaration and focuses on expenditures and transactions for the reporting period. However, the complete absence of data in all sections could indicate a technical error or intentional avoidance of detailing.