Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has uncovered falsified financial records totaling nearly 3 million UAH in the asset declaration of Artem Pronyakin, a senior detective in the National Police’s Anti-Drug Crime Department. The officer, who is already standing trial for an alleged property fraud scheme, concealed rented real estate in Irpin, substantial cryptocurrency holdings on Binance, and unexplained cash transfers.
During an audit conducted between October 2025 and February 2026, NACP inspectors identified major discrepancies in the officer’s financial reporting for 2024:
Real Estate: The detective reported zero real estate assets despite residing in a rented apartment in Irpin valued at approximately 1.6 million UAH.
Crypto Assets: The declaration omitted 29,000 USDT (roughly 1.83 million UAH) held on the Binance exchange platform.
Unexplained Income: Auditors identified 215,000 UAH in incoming third-party bank transfers and crypto deposits that exceeded his official annual salary of 324,000 UAH.
Pronyakin claimed the cryptocurrency belonged to his parents living in occupied territories, asserting he had no access to the funds until April 2025. NACP rejected this defense, noting the Binance account was verified with his personal passport and accessed 105 times throughout 2024 from Kyiv and Irpin via his personal smartphone. The officer now faces potential criminal charges under Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for submitting false declaration data.
«The account was registered under the official’s name with passport verification, and all logins throughout the year originated from Ukraine-controlled territory using a device labeled ‘iPhone (Artem)’,» the NACP reported.
Simultaneously, the Desnianskyi District Court of Kyiv is trying Pronyakin alongside co-defendant Dmytro Ivanov in a separate criminal case involving property fraud and attempted theft of an estate.
According to investigators, the pair purchased stolen ownership documents for a deceased Kyiv resident’s apartment in late 2023 for $5,000. After fraudulently re-registering the title under a relative’s name using forged contracts, they replaced the door locks and listed the property on the marketplace OLX for $45,000. In January 2024, the suspects attempted to sell the apartment back to the rightful heir, but the transaction collapsed when the victim initiated formal probate proceedings.