On June 9, 2026, the HACC granted a motion by Yevheniia Hryhoryshyna's representative and lifted the seizure on cash assets totaling $160,000.
Yevheniia Hryhoryshyna is the wife of Dmytro Kovalchuk — the younger brother of Andrii Derkach's former wife. She is also the daughter of businessman Kostiantyn Hryhoryshyn, who is suspected of misappropriation and embezzlement of assets on a particularly large scale through a scheme to extract funds from Sumyoblenergo, of which he is the beneficial owner while the state holds a 25% stake.
According to the investigation, in 2020 the company's senior management created a fictitious position of Adviser to the Board Chair for him, with a monthly salary of UAH 1.5 million for four hours of work per week — six times the limits set by the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission. Between 2020 and 2024, UAH 68 million was siphoned out through this salary, which Hryhoryshyn spent on personal needs through trusted intermediaries in Europe while artificially suppressing the company's profits to avoid paying dividends to the state. He is currently on the wanted list.
The panel also ruled to proceed to closing arguments.
In his closing statement, the prosecutor argued that former MP Andrii Derkach's guilt is fully established by the case materials — witness testimony, correspondence and meetings with representatives of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, physical evidence, and expert examinations.
The investigation documented a clear chronology: during 2019–2020, Derkach regularly met in Moscow with Russian General Staff representatives and immediately afterward held large-scale press conferences aimed at discrediting Ukraine on the international stage. Forensic linguistic and semantic-textual examinations confirmed both discussions of receiving a bribe to finance this activity and the subversive nature of his statements.
The prosecutor analyzed how Derkach consistently executed six media assignments from the Russian General Staff at his press conferences, designed to create the “illusion of external control” over Ukraine:
- Discrediting the anti-corruption system — promoting the narrative that Ukraine's pre-trial investigation bodies are ineffective and allegedly “unconstitutional”
- Manufacturing artificial conspiracies — using so-called “house of cards” methods, fabricating fictitious connections and inflated figures to project an image of expertise;
- Audio manipulation — publishing edited recordings of conversations between Petro Poroshenko and Joe Biden to discredit the institution of the presidency;
- Attacking international support — framing US financial assistance as “looting Ukraine”;
- Weakening Ukraine's negotiating position — provoking public grievance and disillusionment by attempting to portray Ukrainian authorities as the weaker party in relations with Russia;
- Undermining EU integration — the prosecutor identified the aim of these actions as destroying Ukraine's relations with the West in order to impose the notion that cooperation with Russia is “the only right path.”
As we reported earlier, the court recently lifted the seizure on cash assets belonging to Derkach's former wife — returning €49,000, UAH 200,000, and $10,500 seized during searches of her apartment on July 26–27, 2022. Follow the link for more details.
It is also worth mentioning that the SAPO charges Andrii Derkach with high treason and illicit enrichment. According to the investigation, between 2019 and 2022, he received at least $567,000 from Russian intelligence agencies and used the funds for information campaigns aimed at undermining Ukraine, including efforts to derail European integration and damage relations with Western partners. His case has been under review at HACC since December 2023.
