How a terrorist escaped to Donbas thanks to Judge Tishko's decision
Mother of Ukrainian judge Dmytro Tishko has a Russian passport
What property and expenses Dmytro Tishko did not include in his declaration
How Judge Dmytro Tishko legalizes illegal profits
Judge of the Kyiv District Court of Odesa Dmytro Tishko, two weeks after his decision protected the Odesa two-story penthouse of the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Mykhailo Dmitriev from handing it over to ARMA, purchased a house with an area of 642 square meters with a swimming pool near the sea, which are expensive in the area about 400 thousand dollars. At the same time, the judge's mother has a Russian passport and lives in the annexed Crimea, periodically giving her son an apartment or a million hryvnias.
How Judge Tishko preserved the penthouse for the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
In June 2024, police investigators and the Odesa Prosecutor's Office asked the investigating judge of the Kyiv District Court of the city of Odesa, Dmytro Tishko, to hand over a two-story penthouse worth 1.5 million US dollars, which still belongs to the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, to the management of the Agency for Search and Asset Management, but judge Tishko refused them, citing… the impossibility of violating the rights of a Russian.
Since July 2022, the Odesa police have been investigating criminal proceedings on the fact of financing actions aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order in Ukraine, within the framework of which they discovered that property belonging to residents of the Russian Federation is located on the territory of the Odesa region. In particular, a two-story penthouse with an area of 1,012.6 square meters was discovered in Odessa, which belongs to a Russian citizen, the wife of Mykhailo Dmitriev.
Mykhailo Dmitriev is a Russian military figure, lieutenant general, from 1991 to 2000 he held the position of head of the information and analytical department of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, from November 13, 2000 to 2004 he held the position of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, at the same time he was the head of the Russian Federation Committee on military-technical cooperation with foreign countries. From April 9, 2004 to May 24, 2012, Dmitriev held the position of Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and Deputy Minister of Defense. He was also a member of the board of directors of the industrial company of the Russian Federation JSC "Korporatsiya "Takticheskoe raketnoe razinye" (Tactical Missile Armament Company), an active state adviser of the Russian Federation of the 1st class. On December 7, 2023, the President of Ukraine imposed sanctions on Mykhailo Dmitriev for a period of 10 years in connection with his support of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
In order to hide his penthouse in Odessa, Dmitriev at one time registered it for his wife's mother, after whose death the apartment was re-registered for the Russian's wife as an inheritance. After the beginning of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Dmitriev began trying to sell the penthouse for 1 million 500 thousand US dollars, for which he hired a realtor.
On April 2, 2024, the investigator recognized this apartment as physical evidence in the case, and on April 4, the Kyiv District Court of Odesa seized Dmitriev's penthouse. And so in June, the investigator and the prosecutor appealed to the court with a request to transfer the penthouse of the former deputy minister of defense of the Russian Federation to the ARMA administration.
Judge Dmitrii Tishko refused to grant this request, referring to the fact that the preliminary seizure of the apartment was imposed only with the prohibition of its alienation in favor of third parties, which, according to Tishko, does not limit Mykhailo Dmitriev and his wife in the right to continue using the specified apartment. And therefore, as the judge points out in his decision, the transfer of the penthouse to the management of ARMA "may lead to a violation of the fundamental property rights" of the sanctioned Russian general.
Just think: a Ukrainian judge, in the midst of the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine, put Ukrainian national interests below the property rights of Putin's henchman! "It is necessary to ensure a "fair balance" between the interests of society and the rights of specific individuals. The restriction of rights must be justified, proportionate and socially necessary," Judge Tishko writes in his decision.
Indeed, in accordance with the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 613 of July 11, 2018 and the provisions of Article 100 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, physical evidence worth more than 200 amounts of the subsistence minimum for able-bodied persons is handed over to ARMA with the written consent of the owner, and in the absence of such consent - with the decision of the investigator judges. That is, the judge had full right to make such a decision without the consent of the owner. But Dmytro Tishko took Dmitriev's side, noting that "the investigator did not provide evidence to confirm that he approached the owner to obtain his consent to transfer the property to ARMA", and therefore, caught by this, decided to leave General Dmitriev his penthouse in Odessa.
Why did Odessa judge Dmytro Tishko so graciously undertake to defend the rights of a sanctioned general who was involved in the production of missiles with which the Russian Federation is mercilessly shelling Odessa and all of Ukraine today?
How a terrorist escaped to Donbas thanks to Judge Tishko's decision
Dmytro Tishko is far from a model of Ukrainian justice. And the June decision in favor of the Russian general is not the first in his record. In 2014, while still a judge of the Central District Court of Mykolaiv, Dmytro Tishko released Konstantin Kovalev, a suspect in the preparation of a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv, under house arrest, which allowed him to escape to the occupied territory of the Donetsk region, where he joined the terrorist gang "Vostok" and participated in battles against the Ukrainian army.
According to the investigation, during March-May 2014, Kovalev helped the Russian special services shake up the socio-political situation in Mykolaiv, recruited residents of the city to participate in pro-Russian rallies and was engaged in the preparation of an armed seizure of the building of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration. Choosing a preventive measure for him, judge Dmytro Tishko for some reason did not pay attention to the gravity of the crime and to the pile of evidence of its commission by Kovalev, provided by the investigation, and noted that Kovalev has a permanent place of residence, which is characterized by an exceptionally positive character, is raising a minor child and has previously been criminally liable was not attracted
Therefore, Tishko decided to have mercy on the suspect of treason and instead of detention sent Kovalev under 24-hour house arrest. "I believe that such a precautionary measure is quite capable of preventing the established risks (the escape of the suspect)," the judge noted in his decision, and… he was wrong: Kovalev escaped and was killed during the fighting near Donetsk. As noted by the Mykolaiv edition "Prestupnosti.NET", this decision of Tishko surprised even his colleagues at the court.
Dmytro Tishko's other decisions were lenient towards the suspected guides of the occupiers. In 2022, the judge set a bail of only UAH 200,000 for one of the enemy fire adjusters, and UAH 400,000 for the second, although the prosecutor's office asked for twice as much bail. "I can't even remember such a limitless coverage of traitors," local Mykolaiv public activist Dmytro Ryabchenko was indignant at the time.
Mother of Ukrainian judge Dmytro Tishko has a Russian passport
What makes Judge Tishko show such compassion for the Russians and those who work for them? Maybe the fact that the judge's mother is a citizen of the Russian Federation? Yes, yes. Iryna Viktorivna Tishko, who lived at the time of the annexation of Crimea and continues to live today in the city of Kerch, on May 29, 2014, received a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation No. 03 14 972074 and an identification tax number No. 911106757812, when checking which on the official website of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, you can make sure that that both he and Iryna Tishko's Russian passport still have a valid status today.
You can say - well, children are not responsible for their parents. If not for one but. On February 3, 2021, Judge Dmytro Tishko issued a power of attorney for 10 years in the name of his mother to represent his interests in all state, public, economic and other institutions, enterprises and organizations in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Probably, this was done in order to sell real estate in Crimea, re-registered by the Tishko family under Russian laws.
This is evidenced by the announcement posted on November 21, 2023 on the Russian website "Mir kvartir" about the sale of an apartment with an area of 69.7 square meters for 7 million Russian rubles (82,400 US dollars) at the address of the city of Kerch, str. Generala Petrova, 76. It is at this address and with this area that the apartment is jointly owned by judge Dmytro Tishko and his mother Iryna Tishko, based on the certificate of ownership dated April 6, 1995, issued by the Kerchmetalurgbud trust. This apartment was entered by Judge Tishko in his declaration for 2023, where he noted its value at the time of acquisition in 2006 in the amount of 51 thousand hryvnias (10 thousand dollars at that time).
On April 4, 2024, this ad was removed from the site, which probably indicates a successful sale of the apartment. And this means that the Ukrainian judge and his mother not only received income in the aggressor country, but also paid taxes from the sale of property for the benefit of the Russian Federation, whose budget is spent on the war against Ukraine. And literally in parallel with this, the same Ukrainian judge issues a decision, with which he anxiously defends the rights of a Russian general to a penthouse in Odessa. It doesn't go over your head, does it?
What property and expenses Dmytro Tishko did not include in his declaration
And while we are waiting for updates in Judge Tishko's declaration with data on the sale of real estate in the occupied Crimea to Russians, there are many more interesting things to be found in his already submitted declarations. For example, the fact that the judge, declaring his property or expenses, regularly understates their value. Probably, in order not to explain in this way the source of your excess profits, which allow you to have such property.
Or does not declare at all. Yes, Dmytro Tishko, a native of Crimea, is married to Iryna Kaluginia, a lawyer from Odessa. In 2012, Tishko was appointed a judge of the Central District Court of Mykolaiv, where he worked for ten years until he was transferred to Odesa. However, the judge did not have his own apartment in Mykolaiv, so, obviously, he had to rent it. So, until 2018, Tishko did not declare in which apartment he lives and how much money he spends on its rent.
This became one of the reasons why the Higher Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine in January 2019 recognized him as unscrupulous and refused further competition for the position of judge of the Higher Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine. Then the commission asked Dmytro Tishko why he hid the expenses for renting housing in Mykolaiv from the NAZK, however, as stated in the commission's decision, "Tishko D.A. did not respond to this question."
Only after this incident did Tishko finally enter an apartment with an area of 38.4 square meters, which he rented in Mykolaiv, in his declaration for 2018, but… he decided not to indicate how much he spent on it. In 2019-2020, the judge with his wife and son already lived in an apartment many times larger — with an area of 171 square meters, and its annual rent cost them 150,341 hryvnias, i.e. 12.5 thousand hryvnias per month, which looks like a very dubious cost for apartments of this size.
The same story happened with a plot of land in the Odesa region with an area of almost one hectare, owned by the wife of the judge Iryna Kalugina since 2007. They mentioned her only in 2018, when she first appeared in Dmytro Tishko's declaration. Maybe that's why Judge Tishko in December 2019 made a comical decision acquitting a district police officer who violated anti-corruption legislation by not submitting a declaration because he "didn't know about it." Like, I myself forget to declare what is already there.
How Judge Dmytro Tishko legalizes illegal profits
The judge's 2020 affidavit states that Tishko and his wife purchased two cars — a 2018 Infiniti QX50 for $17,700 and a 2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado for $47,500. But these are clearly understated prices for such cars: today, the 2018 Infiniti QX50 can be bought for $45,000 ex-showroom, or an average of $30-35,000 used. It is impossible to find such a car for 17 thousand dollars. This is confirmed by the fact that a year later Tishko himself sold his Infiniti to citizen Oksana Birylova for almost 39 thousand dollars - that is, at market value.
And that's not all. In February 2021, the judge's family acquired an apartment with an area of 50.3 square meters in Odesa from… Dmytro Tishko's mother, Iryna Viktorivna Tishko, a citizen of the Russian Federation. It is not known whether it was her apartment or whether she bought it and sold it to her son for next to nothing. But in the declaration, the judge indicated its value at the time of ownership — 203,260 hryvnias, that is, only 7.4 thousand dollars at the exchange rate at that time. One can only envy such a find. Such transactions with cars and apartments look like the legalization of illegally obtained profits. Do we need to talk about where they can come from in the judge? Especially one that likes to make decisions in favor of suspects?
By the way. In 2021, Dmitry Tishka's mother, a Russian pensioner, gave him 999,620 UAH. It can be seen that the options for issuing money at that time ran out, and we had to resort to gifts from the citizens of the Russian Federation.
And the cherry on the cake. On June 20, 2024, exactly 2 weeks after Judge Tishka ruled in favor of Russian Lieutenant General Dmitriev and his penthouse for $1.5 million, the Tishka family purchased a large house of 642.5 square meters and a plot of land under it of 1000 square meters in a picturesque area of Odessa, just 10 minutes' walk from the sea in Dachnoi Lane, 1. According to the sales contract, such an estate with a swimming pool cost the judge only 5 million 720 thousand UAH, i.e. 141.5 thousand dollars. But there are simply no such prices for houses with a swimming pool in this area, and even with such an area. The market value of such a house is at least 400,000 dollars.
But it is clear: if you indicate the real cost, questions will begin, where does the money come from. Because Judge Dmytro Tishko's salary today averages UAH 100,000 per month. His wife, working as a lawyer, officially receives approximately UAH 1 million per year. Even if they spent all of their savings (which is $226,000 and €21,000 in cash as of March 2024), it wouldn't be enough.
Summarizing, there is only one question: why is the activity of the judge of the Kyiv District Court of the city of Odesa Dmytro Tishka, who makes a decision in favor of the Russian general, and then buys an estate on the seashore for tens of millions of hryvnias, still not dealt with by the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and the Service security of Ukraine?