Head of Lviv Commercial Court Suspected of Bribery

NABU and SAPO have reported suspicions to the former and current heads of the Lviv Oblast Commercial Court of extorting and receiving illegal benefits for which they were supposed to abuse their influence. This was reported by the press services of the bodies.

According to media reports, this concerns the head of the Lviv Regional Economic Court, Vasyl Artimovich, whose office was recently searched by NABU detectives. Before Artimovich, this position was held by Mykhailo Yurkevich.

On the instructions of the head of the SAPO, the prosecutor, with the participation of NABU detectives, reported suspicion to the current and former chairmen of the Commercial Court of one of the regions, who were caught extorting 1 million US dollars of illegal gain from a representative of a private company. The actions of the suspects were qualified under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

The NABU said that it was about the Lviv Regional Economic Court. According to the investigation, the suspects promised to ensure the adoption of "necessary" decisions in court cases of the Western Appeal Economic Court for $ 1 million, as well as to prevent the contract killing of the whistleblower. During the investigation, detectives and prosecutors documented the transfer of part of the ill-gotten gains in the amount of $ 75 thousand.

Earlier, the Zaliznychny District Court of Lviv sentenced oncologist Ihor Bekar for bribery.

We also wrote that the Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court remanded former Deputy Minister of Energy Oleksandr Hale in custody until January 24 .