The court denied the scandalous prosecutor Dmytro Petrov the recovery of payments from the Office of the Prosecutor General

The court denied the scandalous prosecutor Dmytro Petrov the recovery of payments from the Office of the Prosecutor General

Scandalous millionaire prosecutor Dmytro Petrov lost his case against the Office of the Prosecutor General: the court denied his claim for severance pay and average earnings upon dismissal.

Petrov sought to recover:

- severance pay in the amount of over UAH 48,000;

- average earnings for the entire period of delay in final settlement.

Judge Olena Khoma of the Lviv District Administrative Court fully dismissed the claim. The court concluded that the claims were unfounded, since in another case (No. 320/5210/21) average earnings for the period of forced absence from November 2019 to July 2021, totaling over UAH 941,000, had already been recovered from Petrov. The court regarded repeated recovery for the same period as double liability, which contradicts Article 61 of the Constitution of Ukraine.

In addition, the court established that the actual settlement with Petrov had been made as early as December 24, 2019, and therefore there were no grounds for accruing average earnings after that date.

Dmytro Petrov is the former Deputy Head of the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (later the Office of the Prosecutor General). He was dismissed on November 20, 2019, under paragraph 9, part 1, article 51 of the Law “On the Prosecutor’s Office,” but in 2024 he returned to work at the OGP.

Earlier, Petrov fell under the law on lustration. His dismissal was related specifically to lustration; however, he actively challenged it in court and in 2020–2021 succeeded in being reinstated.

Before returning to the prosecutor’s office, Petrov worked for a long time at the State Migration Service in Kyiv and Kyiv Region, including as deputy head. According to journalistic investigations, it was during that time that he was involved in corruption schemes related to illegal migration and obtaining undue benefits.

Petrov has repeatedly attracted media attention due to the discrepancy between his declared assets and his position. Declarations over various years recorded significant amounts of cash (up to UAH 10 million), expensive property, and real estate. In 2025, the NACP concealed (or deleted) his declarations from the public register, which also drew criticism.