Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Гнап, Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap; born 19 December 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and Hromadske.TV.[1] His work focuses on corruption and crime.[2][3]
In 2014, he and other journalists collaborated to preserve documents found at the Mezhyhirya Residence after President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine.[4] Hnap won the main award at the 2015 Mezhyhirya Festival for his investigative work.[3][5]
In April 2016, a libel lawsuit was filed against him by Oleksandr Korniyets, one of the Ukrainian top prosecutors dubbed the "diamond prosecutors", previously suspected of taking bribes in what has been described as a witch hunt against many Hromadske journalists launched by Petro Poroshenko's supporters.[6]
On 25 June 2018, Hnap announced he was leaving journalism to start a political career. He said he would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, and in primaries for a single liberal opposition candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[7] He officially became a presidential candidate on February 8, 2019, nominated by the party Power of the People.[8] Hnap continued to hosts his own political talk show "Right to the Truth" on "24 Channel".[9] On 1 March he withdrew his candidacy in favour of supporting fellow candidate Anatoliy Hrytsenko.[10] The following day Power of People officially withdraw Hap's candidacy.[11] In the election Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes.[12]
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