Dmytro Petrov, a senior official at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, has come under intense scrutiny from anti-corruption investigators and public activists following a dramatic surge in his family’s wealth. Over recent years, the prosecutor’s family—specifically his wife, Liudmyla Prykhodko, his mother, and his grandmother—acquired dozens of land plots, apartments, commercial real estate, and luxury vehicles. Because these massive acquisitions, documented in property registers through 2023–2024, appears to vastly exceed the civil servant’s official income, activists are demanding a comprehensive asset verification by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).
The controversy surrounding the prosecutor’s wealth first came to light during a multi-year litigation process in the Kyiv Oblast. Anastasiia Orlova, a deputy of the Obukhiv District Council, filed a lawsuit seeking to legally establish her cohabitation with Dmytro Petrov between 2014 and 2018 and to divide the assets acquired during that period.
According to the plaintiff, several land plots were purchased in the village of Khodosivka near Kyiv during their relationship, where two houses were built, alongside the purchase of a luxury fleet (including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota vehicles) and specialized watercraft. Orlova maintained that she personally managed the construction and organizational matters while Petrov was stationed for work in the Chernihiv Oblast.
However, Petrov denied any marital relations in court, characterizing their connection as merely «friendly.» The court of cassation ultimately sided with the prosecutor, dismissing Orlova’s claims. Following the ruling, his former partner claimed that Petrov initiated a criminal case against her as leverage. Once the asset freezes were lifted, the luxury estate was listed for sale with an estimated value of 1.1 million dollars.
Subsequent investigations into the official’s holdings revealed patterns of a suspected «family asset scheme.» The land surrounding the Khodosivka estate forms a single, unified compound enclosed by a shared perimeter fence. However, the land parcels are registered not only to the prosecutor but also to his mother, Svitlana Petrova (who owns roughly 1.5 hectares), and his grandmother, Vira Tovkach. The compound features two residential houses and extensive engineering infrastructure, yet Petrov’s prior asset disclosures fail to reflect any matching expenditures for construction on this scale.
Investigators are paying particularly close attention to the financial trajectory of the prosecutor’s current wife, Liudmyla Prykhodko. As of 2019, her family relied on state-subsidized housing, and Prykhodko herself was registered in a modest 16-square-meter room in a dormitory at the Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy.
However, starting in 2021, an extensive list of properties began appearing under Prykhodko’s name in official registries: nearly 2 hectares of land in the Cherkasy Oblast, apartments and commercial spaces in Kyiv, premium real estate near the capital, and three commercial properties in Uzhhorod. Additionally, a brand-new dealership vehicle worth 75,000 dollars was purchased.
Despite the ongoing state of war in Ukraine, the purchasing power of the Prosecutor General Office official’s family only seemed to accelerate. Throughout 2023–2024, the family’s portfolio was further expanded with the following acquisitions:
A commercial space in the «Sofia Residence» residential complex (50.1 sq. m);
An apartment in Khodosivka (36.2 sq. m) and a detached garden house (221 sq. m);
Additional commercial real estate in Uzhhorod;
A fleet of premium vehicles: an Audi Q8 E-tron (2024), a Volvo (valued at 1.88 million UAH), a Suzuki (1.1 million UAH), and a Lux EL (978 thousand UAH).