“On August 9, Judge Igor Semiryad acquitted Andrey Alimpiev under Part 3 of Art. 425 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (negligence in military service),” the press service of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Kharkiv said.
The court added that the prosecutor’s office has 30 days to appeal the verdict from the date of its announcement.
“They did not find any corruption issues in NABU. Then the military prosecutor’s office of the Kharkiv garrison investigated the case under part 3 of article 425 – negligence in military service, committed during a special period. It provides for a punishment of five to eight years in prison. The prosecutor’s office in court hearings asked for six years in prison. The court against General Alimpiev ruled the following: to acquit on all charges in connection with the absence of corpus delicti in his actions, “Zhuravlev said.
In November 2017, the head of the Kharkiv National University of the Air Force, Major General Andrei Alimpiev, was detained on suspicion of embezzling UAH 2.4 million when purchasing fuel. He was declared suspicious under Part 5 of Art. 191 of the Criminal Code (misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of office).
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