Yuri Dmitrun
"Strana" has already reported on the "skeletons in the closet" of the newly appointed prosecutors of the Donetsk, Kyiv, and Odesa regions, as well as the city of Kyiv. Now let's talk about Yuriy Dmitrun, the head of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky local prosecutor's office, which oversees territories with the most expensive land in the country: the Obukhiv district (including Kozyn and Koncha-Zaspa), the Makarivsky, Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky, Vasylkivsky, and Vyshgorodsky districts, and the cities of Vasylkiv, Irpin, Bucha, and Obukhiv.
Failed anti-corruption activist
In 2015, Yuriy Dmitrun applied for a position with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). In his autobiography, he recounted his career:
— from 2008 to 2013 – worked as an assistant prosecutor and investigator in the Fastiv interdistrict prosecutor’s office;
— from 2013 to 2015 – prosecutor and deputy head of department in the Kyiv regional prosecutor’s office;
— since January 22, 2015 – prosecutor of the Vyshgorod district.
Based on the results of the knowledge of legislation test on November 2, he took 227th place out of 282 candidates:
After such a failure in the assessment of knowledge of the fundamentals of legislation, Yuri Dmitrun did not take part in the next test of general abilities at all.
But a month later, Dmitrun was lucky in another competition: on December 15, 2015, he was appointed head of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky local prosecutor's office, along with the heads of five other local prosecutor's offices in the Kyiv region:
Secret property of relatives
Let's examine the financial situation of our country's most powerful local prosecutor and his family.
In his 2015 tax return, Yuriy Dmitrun declared 130 hryvnias in income for himself and 134 hryvnias for his wife. The prosecutor also listed a 2006 Honda Accord, a 10-acre plot of land, and a 44-square-meter apartment for himself, and a 100-square-meter house for his wife.
However, there is no information about these objects in the real estate register.
The asset declaration of Yuriy Dmitrun's wife, Liliya Olegovna Dmitrun (née Markitanyuk), a prosecutor with the Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, partially sheds light on this discrepancy. In her declaration, she indicated that the 44-square-meter apartment is sublet to her husband:
However, the real estate registry does contain information about the purchase by Yuriy Dmytroun's wife's brother of a 107-square-meter apartment in a new building in the village of Chaiki, near Kyiv. This is essentially part of the village of Kotsiubynske, near Irpin. The apartment was purchased in January 2016, immediately after Dmytroun's appointment as Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky prosecutor:
According to one real estate website, a slightly smaller three-room apartment in this building is selling for $630 per square meter:
Therefore, a 107 sq. m. apartment in this building can be roughly valued at 65–70 thousand US dollars.
Liliya Dmitrun indicated on her social media page that National Aviation University student Igor Markitanyuk is her brother:
Considering that the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky prosecutor's wife's brother is a student and recently signed a petition to raise the minimum stipend to the subsistence level, his purchase of an expensive three-room apartment in a Kyiv suburb raises questions. Specifically, is the prosecutor's wife's brother a "front man" in this case? After all, the apartment was purchased in his name to conceal the property, which was purchased with the undeclared income of the Dmytroun family.
Let's now turn to the information we were able to find about the property of Yuri Dmitrun's parents. Strana has already reported that his mother owns a 4,1-hectare plot of land, which she leases to Interagroinvest LLC.
Following our publication, for unknown reasons, information about the registration of this plot was removed from the Public Cadastral Map of Ukraine, although it had previously been there and we had published it:
Nevertheless, this plot remains on the graphic portion of the Public Cadastral Map. It is located south of the village of Torchytsia in the Stavishchensky district in the southern Kyiv region, near the Kyiv-Odesa highway:
A 4,14-hectare plot of land is also owned by Alexander Pavlovich Dmitrun, presumably Yuri Dmitrun's father. This is confirmed by an extract from the real estate register, which Strana has in its possession:
However, the Public Cadastral Map contains no information about this plot at all:
Like the mother's plot, this plot is also leased to Interagroinvest LLC. The latter, as we previously reported, is owned by Glencore, a large international holding company.
According to our information, both Lyubov and Alexander Dmitruny were elected as deputies of the Torchinsky village council in the 2015 local elections.
Land prosecutor's interest
We also analyzed the court cases involving the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky Prosecutor's Office since Dmytroun's appointment as its head. As it turns out, the "land issue" is of great interest to the new prosecutor.
One of Yuriy Dmitrun's largest land cases is the lawsuit he filed in the Kyiv Regional Commercial Court to recover enormous land assets from Aktiv Forwarding LLC—four plots of land, one hectare each, located in a prime location along the Kyiv-Odesa highway near the village of Chabany:
Aktiv Forwarding LLC is owned by very wealthy individuals—Vyacheslav Klimov and Vladimir Popereshnyuk, owners of Nova Poshta. The lawsuit has been pending for several months, and a decision has not yet been made.
The basis for this lawsuit is still unknown. However, the very fact of an attempt to seize large plots of land from a successful and rapidly growing business suggests a possible interest in "resolving the issue" through traditional prosecutorial methods.
But the "attack" by Amalfi Development Group LLC proved unsuccessful: on May 13, the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky Prosecutor's Office lost a lawsuit to reclaim an 8-hectare plot of land on the banks of the Dnieper River near Kozin:
This LLC belongs to Ivan Shufrich, the father of a well-known people's deputy:
An attempt to seize two plots of land totaling 9,5 hectares on Naberezhnaya Street in Vyshgorod from KV Center LLC also ended in failure. This can be explained by both the traditional "solution" and the fact that this LLC is owned and managed by respected businessman Alexey Karmatskikh, a member of the public council of the Kyiv Regional State Administration and a former multiple USSR and European champion in freestyle wrestling.
At the same time, the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky District Court is inundated with complaints against the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky Prosecutor's Office. People primarily complain about the prosecutor's inaction. The most common violation is failure to enter information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations after receiving a complaint or report of a criminal offense.
Since the beginning of the year, we have counted 260 court decisions in the Unified Register of Court Decisions related to the inaction of the Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky prosecutor in criminal cases.
Overall, it appears that Yuriy Dmitrun is adhering to the worst traditions of prosecutorial work, focusing primarily on "interesting" land cases while ignoring his responsibilities in investigating criminal cases. Therefore, it's possible that our prediction of his imminent dismissal will become reality in the very near future.
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