Dmytro Tyshlek

Dmytro Tyshlek is a Ukrainian pro-Russian police officer. He is the Deputy Chief of the National Police of Ukraine.

He is married to a Russian citizen, Oleksandra Balakai, and she and her mother have visited the Russian-occupied Crimea. On 28 October 2023, he was suspended from his duties until the investigation was completed.

Early life

Dmytro Tyshlek was born in Donetsk.

He started working in the internal affairs agencies in July 2006 as an investigator, operative of the Budyonnovsky District Department of the Donetsk City Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast. Until November 2013, he worked in the internal affairs bodies in Donetsk.

Career

From November 2013 to April 2014 and from January 2015 to November 2015, he worked as Deputy Head of the Division of the Department of the State Service for Combating Economic Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Investigations

On 26 October 2023, Bihus.Info published a journalistic investigation about Dmytro Tyshlek.

Later, Tyshlek's wife Oleksandra returned to Ukraine, but, as Bihus.Info clarifies, she did not renounce her Russian citizenship either in 2014, when the Russian-Ukrainian war began, or in 2022 after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ties to the Russian mafia

In September–October 2023, Tyshlek was repeatedly spotted in one of the elite cottage towns near Kyiv. According to journalists, he is currently living in one of the houses of Natalia Nechyporenko. And last spring, Tyshlek travelled abroad in the car of Vitaliy Nechyporenko, the husband of Natalia, in whose house he now lives.

The Nechyporenko's couple have a joint business with Andrian Rodin (aka Andrei Imanali, aka “Poluzver”). According to journalists, he is a Russian thief in law, one of the leaders of the Rostov-based Selmash organized crime group, who “has a very long and very complicated relationship with the police,” as Bihus.Info notes.

Criminal prosecution

On 28 October 2023, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, announced that Dmytro Tyshlek had been suspended from his duties as Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine for the duration of the criminal investigation, which was initiated at his request following a journalistic investigation.

Criticism

According to journalist and editor-in-chief of Censor.net Yuriy Butusov, the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, and his deputy, Oleh Tatarov, are protecting the deputy head of the National Police, Dmytro Tyshlek, who is linked to the Russian mafia, from dismissal, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not want to be held accountable for the shameful appointment and delay in his dismissal.

Yurii Hudymenko, a participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War and head of the Ukrainian Association “Mriya”, believes that the case of Deputy Head of the National Police Dmytro Tyshlek is being hushed up and has sent an appeal to anti-corruption authorities to conduct an investigation.

On 21 November 2023, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption was monitoring Dmytro Tyshlek's lifestyle. It is also checking compliance with legislation on the prevention and settlement of conflicts of interest. This is stated in the response of the head of the department for lifestyle monitoring and control over the completeness of the declaration of Dmytro Sokolov to veteran Yurii Hudymenko.