Another senior Kyiv official faces criminal probe over embezzlement

The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has served a notice of suspicion to Dmytro Zahumennyi, Chief of Staff of the Kyiv City State Administration (KMDA). He is accused of embezzling UAH 1.3 million, according to the official websites of the SBI and the Office of the Prosecutor General.

According to investigators, Zahumennyi, together with the former head of the KMDA’s municipal enterprise ATP, ordered and paid for facade and other repair works on an office building on Borys Hrinchenko Street in Kyiv. However, at the time of the repairs, the building was already privately owned — not municipal property — and the municipal enterprise did not even lease the premises.

In effect, budget funds were spent on repairing private real estate.

The charges fall under Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — embezzlement of property through abuse of office, committed by a group of persons in prior conspiracy, in especially large amounts.

Zahumennyi has served as Chief of Staff of the Kyiv City State Administration since 2018. Before that, he was First Deputy Head of the Pechersk District State Administration in Kyiv for two years.

• In April 2025, KMDA Deputy Head Volodymyr Prokopiv was suspected of involvement in trafficking men to Europe.
• Earlier, another Deputy Head, Petro Olenych, was dismissed following a NABU suspicion in the Komarnytsky tapes case. Kyiv City Council Secretary Volodymyr Bondarenko, although not formally suspected, also resigned after being implicated in the tapes.