The TV series "I've Been Contracted": Dmytro Verbytskyy has written a new blog post about his multi-million-dollar fortune
The controversial former Deputy Prosecutor General Dmytro Verbytskyi, whose past as a prosecutor is clearly weighing increasingly heavily on his fledgling political career within the ranks of “Batkivshchyna,” has once again entered the public arena with an act of profound self-purification.
This time, Verbytsky has taken to his personal blog to restore justice, where he presented the first part of his epic series titled “Criminal Acts on Order or the NACP’s Incompetence?”
The former top official hasn’t lost hope that he can prove to the public through his words: a massive media campaign has been launched against him, aimed at “artificially perpetuating the image of a corrupt official.” And anyway, everyone around him simply can’t read or count, while he alone, in a white suit and armed with a linguistic analysis report, holds the upper hand.
Legal linguistics: “possibly” instead of 30 million
Verbytsky delivers the main blow to the anti-corruption system from where no one expected—the realm of philology. Instead of accepting, acknowledging, coming to terms with, and finally explaining where the undeclared millions in his family came from, the former prosecutor triumphantly quotes the NACP’s “Reasoned Conclusion.” It turns out that the government agency uses such insidious and ambiguous words as “possibly,” “may indicate,” and “there are grounds to believe.”
This linguistic analysis, according to Verbytsky, completely nullifies the results of the full audit.
Unfortunately for the former prosecutor, in the real world, where the Criminal Code applies, the NACP has already forwarded the materials to the NABU. And there, in cold, hard numbers, it is recorded:
- False statements in the declaration amounting to a modest 2,379,000 hryvnias (Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);
- Signs of illicit enrichment amounting to a colossal 30,266,000 hryvnias, the origin of which the family’s official income cannot explain (Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
But Verbytskyy remains unyielding: if the NACP writes “possibly,” then the 30 million in illegal assets must simply be a figment of the investigators’ imagination.
Turkish magic: how to get tangled up in a mother and an ex-wife
The first part of the blog is entirely devoted to a luxury apartment in Turkey, allegedly purchased with his mother’s funds. Verbytsky is genuinely outraged: the NACP dared to value this property at $323,000, citing a TSN television report on the Oxo Beach residential complex.
The former prosecutor pulls his trump card out of his sleeve—official TAPU documents and a market appraisal report, according to which the apartment is actually worth between $72,000 and $88,000. So, did Verbytsky’s mother, as a true patron of the Turkish economy, actually overpay by giving $133,000? It’s high time for Dmytro Anatoliyovych to write to the Turkish Consumer Protection Association to demand compensation for the difference. That is, if Mom didn’t throw the receipts away during her latest cleaning spree. And she might have. Important documents end up in the trash just like that.
“How did the NACP ‘verify’ the TV report but ignore the official documents?” the author asks dramatically.
However, while Verbytsky is passionately battling the TV over his “mother’s” apartment, NACP detectives have uncovered an even more intriguing discrepancy. In an attempt to hide his foreign assets, the former official has completely muddled the status of his own ex-wife, Viktoria Verbytska.
In his interviews, Verbytsky insisted that his ex-wife, following their divorce in 2023, was a complete stranger to him, so he had no connection to her assets. But disaster struck—legal ignorance triumphed over prosecutorial experience. Verbytsky personally included in his declaration a whole series of real estate properties registered to his “stranger” ex-wife, coyly referring to this as “free use (his ex-wife’s place of residence).”
Among the items listed in this “gentleman’s set” were:
- Another apartment and a plot of land in the elite Turkish resort of Antalya (Alanya);
- A luxurious residential house in Odesa with an area of 420.1 square meters, along with the land beneath it.
The NACP reviewed this display of unprecedented generosity and concluded: this information should not have been listed there at all. Moreover, anti-corruption officials clearly established that all these Turkish and Odesa properties were acquired with Dmytro Verbytskyi’s personal funds. The attempt to use his ex-wife as a front failed: Verbytsky himself documented his connection to this property and his right to dispose of it directly or indirectly.
A Mathematical Genius and a Mysterious Father
Further in the text, the former prosecutor expresses dissatisfaction with the NACP staff’s calculations, accusing them of “inability to balance debits and credits.” Anti-corruption investigators pointed out that the prosecutor’s mother had purchased so many cars that she simply could not have had enough money left to lend her son for a Turkish apartment.
But the former Deputy Prosecutor General reveals the secret to a successful business: the cars were bought first and then sold at a profit. And to finish off the inspectors for good, Verbytsky plays his trump card—his father’s income, which the NACP completely forgot to check. In other words, the Verbitskys’ family budget is some kind of bottomless well where hryvnias were automatically converted into dollars at the official NBU exchange rate, and inflation worked exclusively in favor of the prosecutor’s pocket.
“The authorized official simply doesn’t know how to count… or was this done on purpose?” Verbytsky laments.
Indeed, it’s convenient to hide behind a deceased father: you can’t verify the income, and you can’t ask him anymore.
Legitimate revenge by an illegitimate inspector
A special place in this system of global conspiracy is held by an NACP employee whom Verbytsky previously accused of “personal revenge” due to his corrupt past. Here, the former prosecutor’s parallel reality once again shatters against the cold facts.
The NACP’s official response to the journalist’s inquiry was ruthless: the inspector in question was indeed once listed in the Register of Corrupt Officials, but he was legally removed from it back in November 2022. And the audit itself was conducted by a fully legitimate internal control unit. So, he won’t be able to blame his undeclared millions on the machinations of a “discredited enemy.”
Instead of a conclusion
Dmytro Verbytskyi continues to play a fascinating game: “Everyone around me is a fool; I alone am D’Artagnan.” The media distorts the facts, the NACP manipulates, the BEB isn’t looking in the right direction, and TSN is filming incorrectly.
However, no matter how many self-justifying blog posts there are, the real documents are with the NABU. There, instead of linguistic assumptions, concrete figures appear. And the UA.News editorial team continues to monitor how Khristina Ilnytska’s hands, adorned with expensive Rolexes, hand out meager grocery bags to pensioners in Odesa. We have the documents on hand. We’re waiting for the second part of the blog.
