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Police Colonel Volodymyr Tsenov, aged 40, is suspected of participating in a criminal organisation and obtaining undue advantage. According to the materials of the "Carthage" operation conducted by the NABU and the SAP, he is listed under the pseudonym "Price". The investigation believes that at least from January to July 2026, Tsenov received money for ensuring the inviolability of fraudulent call centres.
Volodymyr Tsenov held senior positions in law enforcement agencies for many years. From 2015, he worked in the Internal Security Department of the National Police, where he headed a department and later became deputy head of the department. In 2019, he transferred to the Department of Strategic Investigations (DSI), and in 2025 he took the position of first deputy head of the DSI, which he held at the time of his detention.
According to the investigation's version, one of the organisers of the scheme, likely Andriy Osipov, known as "Criminal", had an arrangement with Tsenov. The latter cooperated with the so-called "Mexican" (likely Yehor Burkin, who is wanted in the "Khimprom" drug cartel case). NABU recordings captured Tsenov helping to return equipment seized by the police from one of the call centres through the Pechersk Court for money.
On 4 November 2026, Volodymyr Tsenov was detained. The next day, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention with the possibility of posting bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnia. On 6 November, the funds were posted. The majority of the sum, namely 13 million hryvnia, was paid by the suspect's father — Mykola Tsenov.
Mykola Tsenov is 68 years old. He also has significant experience working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. In the 1990s, he headed the Department of Internal Affairs on Transport, and later reached the position of first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 2010, he retired.
Mykola's eldest son, 51-year-old Dmytro Tsenov, was also a senior police official, heading the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv Oblast. In 2019, he resigned against the backdrop of the murder of five-year-old Kyrylo Tliavov in Pereiaslav. The boy died as a result of a shooting staged by drunk men, among whom were police officers. One of them was convicted of negligent homicide.
Real estate in the Tsenov family began to appear while Mykola was serving in the authorities. First, a house of 240 m² appeared in Dmytro Tsenov's declaration. Then the family acquired an estate of 571 m² in the village of Kryukivshchyna near Kyiv. This property has belonged to Volodymyr Tsenov since 2003.
"The work was carried out in stages, as funds were received, and lasted many years. Several generations of the family participated in financing the construction," Volodymyr Tsenov stated in response to a request.
In 2010, Mykola Tsenov, together with his 71-year-old wife, Nina Tsenova, purchased an apartment of approximately 29 m² in the Pechersk district of Kyiv.
In 2011, Volodymyr Tsenov acquired an apartment in the "Perlyna Kadets'koho Haisu" residential complex in the capital. The living space was 59 m², and the cost was almost 500,000 hryvnia (which was about 60,000 dollars at the time). Volodymyr Tsenov explained this purchase as "family savings accumulated over a long period of time".
In 2015, Mykola Tsenov bought himself an apartment of 173 m² in the same "Perlyna Kadets'koho Haisu" residential complex for almost 110,000 dollars. In 2018, he became the owner of land plots with a total area of 4 hectares in Kyiv Oblast for 280,000 hryvnia. In 2024, he gifted these lands to his eldest son, Dmytro.
Also, in 2019, Mykola Tsenov transferred 500,000 hryvnia to the account of the "Servant of the People" party, having been on pension for nine years already.
In 2022, when Volodymyr Tsenov was already heading a department in the Department of Special Investigations, his father purchased real estate in the village of Hatne. On 25 October 2022, Mykola Tsenov bought a house of 240 m² and a plot of 15 sotkas for 7.320 million hryvnia (about 200,000 dollars). Three and a half months after the deal, Volodymyr Tsenov's family moved into this house.
The house has five living rooms, four bathrooms, a kitchen-living room, a wardrobe, a gym, and a private pool. Architect Oleg Hrechuk assessed the actual market value of such a property as of the end of 2022 at least at 400–600 thousand dollars.
"I think it is over 400 thousand dollars. It could be 500-600 thousand dollars depending on what utilities are there. If gas is connected, there is a quality heating system, underfloor heating, normal electricity, some more or less normal plumbing, tiles — everything that ensures a level of comfort — then all of this together could cost over 600 thousand dollars," the expert noted.
In May 2023, Mykola Tsenov bought an adjacent plot of 6.5 sotkas for 40 thousand dollars (about 1.5 million hryvnia). A technical building is located on this plot, as well as, presumably, a private underground shelter. The value of such a complex, according to the architect's estimate, could range from 750 to 800 thousand dollars.
Volodymyr Tsenov explained his parents' financial capabilities by their salaries, pensions, sale of real estate, and entrepreneurial activity.
"At various periods, my parents carried out the sale of real estate objects that belonged to them, and these operations additionally formed the family budget. The combination of these sources of income made it possible to freely finance the acquisition of the objects mentioned in your request," Volodymyr Tsenov stated.
However, a check of electronic registers for over the last 10 years revealed no sales of real estate by the parents. Mykola Tsenov opened a sole proprietorship only in October 2023, after buying the house in Hatne. According to Volodymyr Tsenov, after retiring, his father worked as the head of security at "TradeField Ukraine" LLC, which trades agricultural raw materials.
From the 2020 declaration of the company's director, Volodymyr Kovali, it follows that his average salary was 77 thousand hryvnia per month. If it is assumed that Mykola Tsenov received similar income, it would have taken him almost eight years of such a salary just for the official value of the house in Hatne.
Roman Verbovskyi, a lawyer at the "Centre for Countering Corruption", noted that law enforcement agencies must verify the origin of the funds.
"It must initiate a criminal case and check whether there are indeed signs of the elements of the crime of illegal enrichment," the lawyer stated.
He explained that criminal liability for illegal enrichment arises if the difference between legal income and the value of assets exceeds 9 million hryvnia.
"In that case, there will be liability for illegal enrichment, and this property can be confiscated within the framework of special confiscation. If the difference between legal income and the value of this asset is less than 9 million hryvnia, but there is still no confirmation of these incomes, then there may already be civil confiscation," Verbovskyi added.
Mykola Tsenov previously agreed to a meeting but later stopped answering calls. After posting the bail, he claimed that he had worked not only at "TradeField Ukraine" but refused to name other places of work. He explained the origin of the additional 13 million hryvnia for bail as "long-term work" and savings.
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