Yuriy Pavliutin, the acting head of the State Tax Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region, has declared a range of real estate assets, vehicles, and cryptocurrency with official valuations 10 to 13 times lower than market prices. Data from his recent financial disclosures reveal significant gaps between the reported figures and actual market values. These anomalies are highly likely to trigger a comprehensive review by anti-corruption authorities.
The most glaring discrepancies in the official’s documents concern real estate properties located in Odessa. In September 2023, Yuriy Pavliutin acquired a 128.5-square-meter apartment, listing its value based on the latest monetary valuation at just 300,000 UAH. However, secondary housing market analytics from that period show that a property of this size carried a market value of at least 3.7 to 5.2 million UAH (over $100,000), representing a 12-fold understatement.
This pattern continued into 2025. In July, the official’s domestic partner, Liudmyla Yankova, acquired three properties in Odessa: two apartments (57.7 and 75.5 sq. m.) and a non-residential commercial space. Their total declared value was roughly 400,000 UAH. Meanwhile, market valuation data from the GIS «Uvekon» indicates that the two residential units alone should have cost between 2.6 and 3.5 million UAH.
While journalists note that these amounts perfectly match inheritance records received by Yankova from a private citizen, experts emphasize that this does not clear the valuation from NACP scrutiny regarding completeness and market alignment. Furthermore, the family rents apartments in Vinnytsia and Dnipro, though no corresponding expenses were disclosed.
The movable property logged by the Dnipropetrovsk tax chief raises equally serious questions. In April 2024, he acquired a 2005 Lexus GX470 SUV, valuing it at 100,000 UAH (around $2,400 at the exchange rate at the time). On specialized auto-sales platforms, identical models fetch six to seven times more—starting from $15,000. The reported value of the family’s second car, a Mitsubishi ASX, also appears severely understated at 50,000 UAH.
Simultaneously, the family disclosed the following assets:
Cash savings: $20,000 and €27,000 split among three family members.
Cryptocurrency: Digital assets (including Bitcoin, Tether, and Curve) valued at approximately 25,000 UAH.
Official income: Pavliutin’s salary from the State Tax Service supplemented by dual-employment fees as a police university professor and research fellow, alongside his partner’s salaries from the Odessa Customs and the Vinnytsia Tax Service.
The disclosure also highlights the family’s ties to the European Union. The tax official, his partner, and their children hold temporary protection status in Spain, where they maintain an active bank account with Santander, one of the country’s largest financial institutions.
Experts point out that this specific asset declaration contains multiple high-risk indicators that demand immediate action from the National Agency on Corruption Prevention.
«Systematically understating the value of assets by 10 or more times compared to market benchmarks is a textbook trigger for a full audit,» anti-corruption analysts comment. «The NACP must investigate the legitimacy of the hefty financial ‘gifts’ from relatives, scrutinize the inheritance trail, and evaluate the official for potential conflicts of interest arising from his concurrent academic and auditing roles.»
At this time, the Main Directorate of the State Tax Service in the Dnipropetrovsk Region and Yuriy Pavliutin himself have not issued any official comments regarding the discrepancies in the asset filings.