Court confiscates property of former education minister Tabachnyk
11 April 2024 17:50
The High Anti-Corruption Court has confiscated assets belonging to or linked to former Education and Science Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk. He was convicted of treason in absentia in Ukraine.
This was reported by the Ministry of Justice, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
The HACC confiscated assets belonging to Tabachnyk and assets in respect of which Tabachnyk may directly or indirectly perform actions identical in content to the exercise of the right to dispose of them, namely:
- ½ share of an apartment
- 5 land plots;
- a residential building;
- monetary assets.
TheAnti-Corruption Action Centre reports that Tabachnyk’s property was confiscated, which was either directly registered to him or registered to his mother:
- Half of an apartment on Yarval Street in Kyiv
- 5 land plots in the elite Kozyn
- a 672-square-metre house in Kozyn on the banks of the Dnipro River
- almost 144 thousand dollars in a bank account
- the right to compensation of UAH 40.6 million
- a claim to one of the banks for UAH 191 thousand.
In November 2022, the SBU served Tabachnyk with a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (high treason committed under martial law).
Subsequently, the SBU seized his property worth over $2 million.
The SBU also exposed Tabachnyk as a collaborator with the FSB and an associate of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
In March 2024, the court sentenced Tabachnyk to 15 years in prison in absentia. Based on the evidence collected, the court found Tabachnyk guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
▪️ ч. 2 Art. 111 (high treason committed under martial law);
▪️ ч. 1 Art. 111-2 (aiding and abetting the aggressor state);
▪️ ч. 2, Art. 28, Art. 438, para. 1 (violation of the laws and customs of war).
The trial was held in a special court proceeding in absentia (in the absence of the accused).
