SBI Detains Ex-Deputy Head of High Commercial Court Yemelyanov

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained the former deputy chairman of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine. He is suspected of bribery. This was reported in the press service of the SBI on Tuesday, December 3. The law enforcement officers do not name the detainee, but according to the sources of the "Schemes" project, it is Artur Yemelyanov.

According to the investigators, the former judge, who now works as a lawyer, along with other court employees made money from bribes. They made the necessary decisions for money, mostly in business disputes. According to the SBI, the organizer of the illegal scheme is also a former official of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine. Intervening in the distribution of cases, he referred them to judges, who made the necessary decisions for bribes. According to "Scheme", we are talking about fugitive judge Viktor Tatkov.

Themis officials set this process in motion, for a long time they actually made it impossible for the court to make decisions on most cases without bribes. Previously, the organizer was declared wanted, he and a number of other participants of the criminal scheme were notified of suspicion, including for the creation and participation in a criminal organization

Artur Yemelyanov was charged with participating in a criminal organization and receiving a bribe. He faces up to 12 years in prison. Law enforcement officers continue to identify all those involved in the corruption scheme.

Earlier, law enforcement officers exposed a large-scale scam on the purchase of military uniforms . Suspicions were announced against a former adviser to the Ministry of Defense, a former People's Deputy and his son.

In addition, BES detectives exposed officials of state institutions of the Zaporizhia region of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and individual entrepreneurs who took possession of state funds in particularly large amounts. It is about embezzlement and "laundering" of 5 million hryvnias during the purchase of firewood for the needs of the Armed Forces.