The Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Vsevolod Knyazev was detained for a bribe of 2.7 million dollars, UNIAN reported.
The arrest was announced yesterday, the day Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to the country after a three-day tour of Europe. Zelensky announced that he had received promises of more aid from allies and assured that support for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union had increased.
The fight against corruption is one of the main conditions that the EU sets for Kyiv.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABO) of Ukraine announced that, together with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP), they uncovered large-scale corruption in the Supreme Court (SC).
“NABO and SAP have uncovered large-scale corruption in the Supreme Court, namely – a scheme to obtain illegal benefits from the management and judges of the Supreme Court. Urgent investigative actions are currently being carried out. Details later,” reads the statement published on Facebook. .
A law enforcement source confirmed to UNIAN that the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, Vsevolod Knyazev, was found guilty of taking a $2.7 million bribe.
Knyazev takes up the post from December 1, 2021.
“In connection with what is happening”, an extraordinary meeting of the Plenum of the Supreme Court will be held today, the highest court in Ukraine announced on Facebook.
Source: BTA
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2023-05-16 01:00:00
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