Dmytro Verbytsky is trying to improve his reputation through volunteer projects following a scandal involving property
Dmytro Verbytskyi, the former deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine who is known for scandals surrounding his possession of unjustifiably acquired property, is trying to improve his reputation by participating in various volunteer projects. Recently, he announced the donation of a generator to the Odesa City Council’s Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children. However, Verbytsky did not specify what role he personally played in obtaining the generator for subsequent donation to the children, since the “Petro and Mazepa” Public Association—known in Ukraine for its volunteer projects in frontline cities—was also involved in this initiative.
A post on the social media pages of Dmytro Verbytskyi’s “Kraina Dobra” Foundation states that he, together with his partner’s foundation and the “Petro and Mazepa” Public Association, joined forces and donated a powerful diesel generator to the “Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children of the Odesa City Council, Odesa Region.”
In fact, according to audits by the National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK), the Verbytsky family has sufficient funds to provide more than just a generator to the Odesa City Council’s Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children. The audits revealed signs of illicit enrichment by the former prosecutor’s family amounting to at least 30.2 million hryvnias, the origin of which they cannot explain.
Additionally, according to investigators, the family owns a luxury apartment in Turkey, allegedly purchased with funds from his elderly, retired mother. The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK) valued this property at $323,000, citing a TSN television report on the Oxo Beach residential complex.
At the same time, his partner, Khrystyna Ilnytska—who also tries to portray herself as a philanthropist—continues to flaunt expensive Rolex watches and jewelry at social events.
So the question remains: how sincere are the “philanthropists” Verbytsky and Ilnytska?
