According to media reports, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Zhevago was going to transfer approximately $2.7 million to Vsevolod Knyazev. Journalists write that 18 judges of the Supreme Court are currently sought.
NABU detained Supreme Court chief Vsevolod Knyazev with bribes of about $2.7 million, this is the highest-status official in the history of Ukraine arrested on suspicion of corruption. This was written on Telegram on May 15 by Oleksiy Goncharenko, people’s deputy from Eurosolidarity.
According to him, 18 judges of the Supreme Court are currently sought in the Knyazev case.
“We hope the detectives are working great, the Anti-Corruption Supreme Court is working, and there is no bail fee. Many do not understand. Supreme Court, Anti-Corruption, Appeal, Constitution. To facilitate Knyazev’s arrest is like the arrest of the president. That’s the level of influence of the president of the Supreme Court,” explained the politician. .
NABU officially confirmed that they, together with SAPO, disclosed a large-scale corruption scheme in the Supreme Court.
“So, it’s a plot by the Supreme Court leadership and judges to obtain illegal benefits,” the bureau’s press service said.
In connection with the events that took place around Knyazev, the Supreme Court called an extraordinary meeting of the Supreme Court plenary on May 16 and invited journalists to it.
Sources of the publication “Strana” in law enforcement agencies claim that the bribe came from the Ukrainian oligarch Konstantin Zhevago. The bankruptcy case of Finans ve Kredi Bankası is being investigated.
Zhevago was detained in France’s Courchevel ski resort on December 27, 2022, at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation. Kiev demanded his extradition, but France refused.
On October 22, 2021, at the plenary session of the Supreme Court, he elected Vsevolod Knyazev as the new head of the court. He took office on 1 December.
We remind you that on the evening of May 15, the head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, partially confirmed the information about the arrest of Knyazev in the case of taking a bribe of $ 2.7 million.
On February 28, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported that one of the personnel officers of the defense battalion was arrested for a bribe of 1.2 million hryvnia.
Source: Focus
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