Scandalous ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Verbytskyi dismissed from the Prosecutor’s Office
8 October 2024 22:39
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has signed a letter of resignation from the prosecutor’s office of his former deputy, Dmytro Verbytskyi, who was found to have unjustified assets. The prosecutor general told Suspilne TV channel about this, according to
According to the Prosecutor General, on 8 October, Verbytskyi submitted his resignation, and Kostin immediately signed it.
According to Kostin, the Prosecutor General’s Office has completed an internal investigation into former Deputy Prosecutor General Dmytro Verbytskyi.
Its conclusions have already been sent to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
“All materials, both the conclusions and all materials of the internal investigation, were sent to the NABU, in accordance with the request of the detective investigating Verbytskyi’s alleged illicit enrichment,” Kostin said.
As previously reported
As a reminder, the NACP found evidence of Verbytskyi’ s illicit enrichment of almost UAH 29 million.
During the monitoring of the official’s lifestyle, it turned out that on behalf of the official, his associates acquired such unjustified assets as a PORSCHE MACAN T sports car worth UAH 3.5 million and 2 more LEXUS cars worth over UAH 480 and UAH 960 thousand.
The former official also owned real estate worth over UAH 30 million:
- a house and land plot in Kyiv worth UAH 16.3 million
- a house and land plot in Odesa worth UAH 10 million;
- an apartment and land plot in Antalya (Turkey) worth UAH 3.9 million.
In addition, the legal sources of the official’s cash in excess of UAH 2 million, as well as the Tether cryptocurrency (USDT), were not established.
This was preceded by several investigations by the Schemes programme into the property and assets of Verbytskyi and his girlfriend.
According to a recent investigation by the Schemes project, former Deputy Prosecutor General Dmytro Verbytskyi lives in a townhouse near Kyiv, bought six times cheaper than the market price. In 2024, his girlfriend purchased luxury property (a Porsche car and a three-storey cottage in Kyiv) worth at least UAH 52 million, without having sufficient official income to do so. The defendant denied the information in the Skhemy investigation and stated that she had bought all the property at her own expense.
Verbytskyi himself denies any involvement in financing these purchases. However, Ilnytska’s officially declared income over the past 10 years is only about UAH 360,000.
on 1 July, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin dismissed Verbytskyi from his position as his deputy.
Dmytro Verbytskyi was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General in September 2022. He was responsible for issues related to combating economic crimes, tax evasion, and investment protection.
