Prosecutor’s "full house" without expenses: how Dmytro Yavdokymenko rents apartments in three cities for zero hryvnias

Prosecutor’s "full house" without expenses: how Dmytro Yavdokymenko rents apartments in three cities for zero hryvnias

Apartments without expenses and a bank account without money: declaration of prosecutor Dmytro Yavdokymenko.

Prosecutor of the department of procedural guidance and support of public prosecution in the department of countering crimes committed in conditions of armed conflict of the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Dmytro Yavdokymenko, has found himself at the center of questions regarding his declaration. Despite not owning his own housing, the prosecutor simultaneously uses several real estate properties in different regions of the country, but the rental expenses for them are not reflected in the declarations, reports 190 Today.

Yavdokymenko began his career in the prosecutor’s office in 2017 as a prosecutor of the Svatove department of the Starobilsk Local Prosecutor’s Office in Luhansk region. In 2019, he transferred to Kharkiv region, where he worked as a prosecutor of the Kegychivka department of the Pervomaisk Local Prosecutor’s Office, and then of the Krasnohrad District Prosecutor’s Office. In 2024, Yavdokymenko was transferred to the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor’s Office.

According to the declarations, the prosecutor rents several real estate properties at once. Since January 2023, he has been renting an apartment of 28.8 sq. m in Kharkiv from citizen Yevhenia Holik. During the same period, he rents an apartment of 11.3 sq. m in Kyiv from OlehTsvyakh — former head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre. Tsvyakh previously featured in a high-profile corruption scandal: in 2016, businessman relatives gifted his wife an entertainment center worth about 5 million UAH. Then-Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman suspended Tsvyakh from his position due to corruption allegations and ineffective performance, tasking the General Prosecutor’s Office and NABU to investigate the official’s activities. However, the investigation did not receive any noticeable continuation.

In addition, since June 2024, Yavdokymenko has been renting a room in the dormitory of the state vocational technical educational institution «Kamyanske Center for Training and Retraining of Workers» in the city of Kamyanske, Dnipropetrovsk region. Since October 2024, he has also been renting another apartment in Kyiv from the company LLC «RK Barbaris» (EDRPOU 38669164). At the same time, the rental expenses for all these properties are absent from the prosecutor’s declarations.

The history with the car also raises separate questions. In 2023, Yavdokymenko became the owner of a 2013 Toyota Avensis, indicating a purchase price of 380 thousand UAH, although the market price of such a car can reach approximately 500 thousand UAH. At the same time, the prosecutor did not submit a separate declaration of significant changes in property status, where the seller’s details should be indicated.

Until 2023, the same Toyota Avensis appeared in his declarations as the property of citizen Stanislav Burma and had been in the prosecutor’s use since 2021. Already in 2023, Yavdokymenko registered the car in his name. During the same period, he lived free of charge in an apartment in Kharkiv owned by Yuliya Burma — a relative of Stanislav Burma, which indicates close relations between the Burma family and the prosecutor.

Yavdokymenko’s income also looks quite modest. In 2024, he declared 431 thousand UAH of salary in the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office before the transfer and 684 thousand UAH of salary in the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor’s Office after the transfer. At the same time, the prosecutor has not declared any cash assets for many years in a row. Only in 2021 did he suddenly have 5 thousand dollars in cash, and in 2022 the amount increased to 6 thousand dollars. Already in 2023, these funds unexpectedly disappeared from the declaration.

At the same time, Dmytro Yavdokymenko has nine bank accounts open in various banks, but no funds on them are indicated in the declarations either. Such a combination — several rented real estate properties without indicating expenses, a car with a changed owner, and a large number of bank accounts without declared funds — raises more and more questions about the transparency of the prosecutor’s property status.