Duties extended for former Kyiv appeals court judges
The High Anti-Corruption Court has remanded former Kyiv Court of Appeal judges Viktor Hlynyany, Yuriy Slyva, Igor Palenyk, and Viacheslav Dzyubin to prison until July 4. The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office accuses them of receiving illegal benefits.
As is known, the anti-corruption court arrested Hlynyany with the alternative of 5 million UAH bail. These funds were deposited and he was released from custody on bail. After the extensions, the court left only two obligations: to refrain from communicating with witnesses regarding the circumstances of this criminal proceeding and to hand over his foreign passports for safekeeping. The other three judges have the same list of obligations.
Since the term of the duties had expired, the prosecutor of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office requested that they be re-assigned to the accused.
The prosecutor's motion to impose on the accused (Glynyany, Slyva, Palenyk and Dzyubin - ed.) the obligations stipulated in Part 5 of Article 194 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, along with the applied preventive measure in the form of bail, is to be granted. To establish the term of the obligations until July 4, 2026 inclusive
Let us remind you that Yuriy Slyva, Igor Palenyk, and Vyacheslav Dzyubin are suspects in the EBK base.
According to the prosecution, Judge Vyacheslav Dzyubin received $35,000 in illegal benefits for lifting the arrest of two aircraft in the case of former Motor-Sich CEO Vyacheslav Boguslaev. Dzyubin kept $10,000 of this amount for himself, and the remaining $25,000 for three other judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeal – Yuriy Slyva, Igor Palenyk, and Viktor Hlynyany.
In particular, Palenyk received $25,000 from Dzyubin in a whiskey box. Later, he packed $8,300 in a coffee package and handed it to Judge Slyva. Judge Hlyniany received $8,300 in an advertising brochure of an Internet provider. During the searches, Dzyubin was found to have $10,000 transferred as illegal gain, and Palenyk was found to have all $25,000 of illegal gain, since, according to the investigation, he changed the bills before handing them over to Judges Slyva and Hlyniany. Slyva and Hlyniany each found $8,300.
We also previously reported that the Supreme Court will consider the case of the former head of the Ternopil Regional Council.
