The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NAZK) identified violations totaling 1.9 billion hryvnia in officials' financial disclosures
The National Agency for Corruption Prevention completed 415 full audits of Ukrainian officials’ asset declarations during the first half of 2026. The audits revealed signs of violations totaling approximately 1.9 billion hryvnia, and nearly a hundred criminal cases were opened based on the established facts. Among the findings were undeclared foreign real estate, luxury cars, and other assets.
The total value of the identified undeclared assets and suspicious assets exceeded 1.9 billion hryvnias.
“In 243 declarations, signs of inaccurate information totaling over 1.836 billion hryvnias were identified; in five, signs of unjustified assets totaling over 23 million hryvnias; and in seven, signs of illicit enrichment totaling over 111 million hryvnias,” the NACP reported.
The effectiveness of risk-based audits during this period reached 61%. Based on the results of its analysis, the NACP forwarded 228 substantiated findings regarding inaccurate information, illicit enrichment, and unexplained assets to the competent authorities. Based on this evidence, pre-trial investigation authorities have already initiated 98 new criminal proceedings and incorporated findings from an additional 36 audits into previously opened cases.
Among the most common schemes for concealing assets, the audits identified the registration of property in the names of relatives, the underreporting of the actual value of luxury cars and real estate, as well as the concealment of cryptocurrency holdings and large sums of cash.
In particular, one high-profile case involved the exposure of a police official in the Poltava region who had registered property worth over 20.3 million hryvnias in the names of his mother and stepfather, including apartments in Poltava, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia, and Warsaw, as well as luxury cars. Furthermore, he failed to disclose in official documents his live-in partner and the property and income belonging to her, amounting to tens of millions of hryvnias.
There were also numerous instances of purchasing undervalued cars and plots of land under the guise of “undeveloped,” even though cottages had already been built on them. Some declarants surprised authorities with their explanations of the sources of their wealth: for example, the acting head of the State Environmental Inspection explained the origin of $653,000 by claiming he had allegedly found the money in a garage after receiving an inheritance. Another declarant, the deputy head of a department at the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine, claimed to have found over 19 million hryvnias in cash in a safe following his father’s death.
To date, law enforcement agencies have notified 21 individuals of suspicion of making false declarations and one additional individual of suspicion of illicit enrichment. Courts have already handed down eight guilty verdicts in criminal proceedings and held 24 individuals administratively liable. At the same time, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is filing lawsuits with the High Anti-Corruption Court to seek civil forfeiture of unjustified assets to the state.
Source: NACP
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