Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has partially granted a civil lawsuit filed by the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), ordering the seizure of illegally acquired assets belonging to a former district prosecutor in Kharkiv, Ihor Bilodid, and his wife, Olena. The total value of the confiscated property, which the official failed to justify through official income, exceeds 6.48 million UAH (approx. $150,000 USD).
The legal proceedings were initiated following an in-depth analysis by anti-corruption authorities into the couple’s financial flow and expenditure patterns. Financial monitoring revealed a significant disparity between the family’s official salaries and their actual purchases made during the ongoing wartime period.
Specifically, investigators discovered that between 2022 and 2024, the family acquired two residential apartments, luxury vehicles including a Lexus LX and a Mercedes-Benz GLE 43 AMG, and accumulated substantial cash reserves. A thorough audit showed that the total value of these purchases exceeded the family’s legitimate combined income by 7.5 million UAH.
After reviewing the evidence and financial calculations presented by SAPO prosecutors, the judicial panel ruled in favor of state asset recovery for a portion of the contested property.
Under the HACC ruling, the following assets are to be forfeited to the state budget:
One full-ownership residential apartment in Kharkiv;
A 1/2 share of a second residential apartment in Kharkiv;
A Lexus LX SUV;
A monetary value equivalent to a partial share of the Mercedes-Benz GLE 43 AMG.
«A financial analysis of the family’s official income and expenses established that the value of the assets acquired between 2022 and 2024 exceeded their lawful income by 7.5 million UAH,» SAPO representatives emphasized in the suit.
The asset forfeiture was executed under Ukraine’s civil confiscation mechanism, which allows the state to seize unjustified wealth from public officials without requiring a formal criminal conviction.
At present, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has declined to comment on the specific mechanisms used to acquire the property or whether a parallel criminal investigation into illegal enrichment is underway.