The trial of Antimonopoly Committee Chairman Kirilenko, who remains in office, is being delayed
The case regarding the failure to declare assets by Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, which was referred to the High Anti-Corruption Court last year, is being delayed. The proceedings may have to start over because the two judges presiding over the case have been assigned new positions.
This is reported by Telegram channels.
The judges in the Kyrylenko case, Nataliia Movchan and Kateryna Sikora, are transferring to the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court following a competition held this winter. The new judges may request that the case be heard from the beginning. Thus, the defendant could gain at least six months solely on procedural grounds.
Meanwhile, Kyrylenko remains in his position—the High Anti-Corruption Court refused to suspend him for the duration of the investigation and trial. Therefore, as of April 2026, the head of the AMCU, who is on trial for illegal enrichment and failure to declare assets, continues to perform his duties.
The investigation established that in his 2024 electronic declaration, while already serving as head of the AMCU, Kyrylenko failed to disclose 20 real estate properties and a luxury BMW X3 registered to his wife’s relatives. Among the concealed assets are six apartments in Kyiv and Uzhhorod, a residential house near Kyiv with an area of over 220 square meters, and land plots. According to the investigation, the property is currently in the actual use of the official’s family.
The High Anti-Corruption Court is hearing the first case on the merits—concerning illegal enrichment amounting to 72 million hryvnias during Kyrylenko’s tenure as head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration from 2020 to 2023. The case stems from an investigation by "Schemes" (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty): journalists discovered that during that period, the official’s family acquired real estate and vehicles with a total market value of over 70 million hryvnias without sufficient official income. Kirilenko himself attributed the wealth to the family’s seed capital from the 1990s, when his wife’s grandmother allegedly sold shares in the Horlivka-based “Styrol” plant at a profit. Before the High Anti-Corruption Court, the story changed: the tens of millions were supposedly gifts from relatives who earned money selling raspberries at the market.
It should be noted that the investigation into the illegal enrichment of former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Dmytro Verbytskyi, who was dismissed from his post two years ago, is being delayed.
On May 13, 2024, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) opened criminal case No. 52024000000000231 under the article on illegal enrichment (Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) following high-profile exposés by Radio Liberty and the Schemes program. However, the case remains at the pre-trial investigation stage without any preventive measures having been announced.
In September 2022, then-Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin appointed Dmytro Verbytskyi as his deputy, whose official mission was to combat economic crimes, tax evasion, and protect investments. Prior to this, Verbytsky had built his career in the Odesa and Mykolaiv prosecutor’s offices, where he developed ties with local businesses.
