The Prosecutor General’s Office has opened a case regarding the possible illegal enrichment of the head of the Energy Customs Service, Anatoly Komar

The Prosecutor General’s Office opened criminal proceedings regarding the alleged illegal enrichment of Anatoliy Komar, the head of Energy Customs of the State Customs Service. About this reported Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko in comments to Radio Liberty.

“The case was opened under Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal enrichment)”, Kravchenko noted, adding that the investigation will be handled by the State Bureau of Investigation.

The SBI appealed to the NAKC with a request to conduct monitoring of Anatoly Komar’s lifestyle. The criminal proceedings were registered on August 2, the day after the release of the “Schemes” material, authored by Georgy Shabaev. It talks about the luxurious lifestyle of the family of a high-ranking official, who during the full-scale war built an estate in the suburbs of Kyiv worth 70 million hryvnias, and Komar himself uses a Mercedes S-class car. His daughter is studying at a prestigious institution in Great Britain.

At the same time, Anatoly Komar said in a comment to journalists that the house was allegedly not built for him, and his daughter’s education is paid for by her godfather, whose identity he did not name. He refused to answer other questions about the origin of funds in the family, stating that they “do not concern his professional activity.”

Journalists also established that the head of customs has connections with a group of companies whose activities are being checked by law enforcement officers for the importation of fuel of Russian origin, and are also suspected of evading excise duty for billions of hryvnias.

We will remind, on August 4, the State Customs Service suspended Anatoliy Komar from performing duties according to the instructions of the Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyridenko earlier instructed verify the information presented in the investigation. The head of the parliamentary committee on finance, tax and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said that he addressed the Prosecutor General with a “relevant statement” and thanked the journalists for “quality work”.

As “Schemes” established, in February 2025, Anatoliy Komar’s father-in-law, 69-year-old pensioner Serhiy Gladkov, registered ownership of an estate in the village of Vyshenki in the Kyiv region with an area of 450 square meters. Construction lasted two years.

“Calculating from the lower limit, such a turnkey estate will cost 70 million hryvnias. This is more than one and a half million dollars.” – says the investigation.

At the same time, the journalists established that Gladkov had no declared income that would allow him to pay for such construction. Anatoliy Komar said in a comment to “Schemes” that he had nothing to do with this house, and his father-in-law, according to him, had the necessary funds. Gladkov himself and his wife also confirmed that they built the estate “with their own funds”, but did not explain where they got the money from, given the discrepancies with official incomes.

“Schemes” also discovered that Anatoliy Komar’s daughter is studying at the British King’s College London — this can be seen from her profile in social networks. A year of study for foreign students there costs about 26 thousand pounds sterling (approximately 1.5 million hryvnias). Before that, according to her publications, she was educated at Pascal English School Lefkosia in Cyprus, where tuition and accommodation cost 30 thousand euros per year (about 1.2 million hryvnias at the time).