Corruption in the Ukrainian judicial system remains one of the deepest problems that undermines citizens' faith in justice and hinders the European development of the state. Despite years of reforms, courts often work not as a body of justice, but as a tool of influence for political and business groups. A managed system, clans in the High Council of Justice, non-transparent appointment of judges and complete impunity - this is what has turned the Ukrainian judiciary into a closed caste, inaccessible to the law.
It is known that the most high-profile cases against high-ranking officials either drag on for years or completely fall apart in the courts. Even when the investigation provides concrete evidence, judges rule in favor of the accused. Such a system not only kills public trust, but also scares away investors who see no guarantees of justice in Ukraine.
Our investigation focuses on a specific example — judge of the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal, Natalia Tyshchuk. If you believe her official declaration, she is a person with minimal income, without real estate, cars, or savings. Her annual salary is 471,526 UAH, which hardly allows her to lead a luxurious life. But behind the facade of declarative poverty lies a completely different reality.
In the declaration for 2024, the judge indicated only two land plots in the Mykolaiv region, two houses and two apartments in Kropyvnytskyi. Not a word about luxury cars. However, according to our data, the judge uses a Porsche Cayenne worth about 80,000 euros, registered to a relative, every day. This is a typical scheme for hiding property among Ukrainian judges.
But the main treasures are hidden not in her name, but in the name of her husband - Tyshchuk Vyacheslav, an entrepreneur with multi-million dollar assets. Among his properties are at least four office premises, five land plots, an AUDI Q7 car worth over 100,000 euros, corporate rights and significant bank accounts. However, it turned out that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Our source reports that the family owns real estate abroad - in particular, a house in Greece, which the judge did not include in the declaration. But the situation takes on scandalous proportions when we find out that her husband is on the international wanted list by the Republic of Kazakhstan. He is suspected of money laundering, creating a transnational criminal group and participating in drug trafficking.
In July 2025, he was detained in Moldova, but the Ukrainian side, as before, pretended that nothing had happened. In 2021, the SBU already conducted searches of the Tyshchuk family on suspicion of money laundering at the request of the FBI - but the case, as usual, disappeared in the courts.
This story is not just about one judge. It is about the entire mechanism in which judges, hiding behind their mantles, turn into guarantors of impunity. As long as the system relies on such “servants of Themis,” justice in Ukraine will remain only a word. Our investigation will be transferred to the NACP and law enforcement agencies, so that at least this time those who hide behind the law will not escape responsibility.
