Lawyer's bribery case sent to court

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office sent an indictment to the court against lawyer Serhiy Gafiychuk for providing undue benefit to the judge of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi City District Court of the Odessa region, Oleksandr Boyarsky.

This is stated in the decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court dated April 28, but no names are mentioned.

According to media reports, this is about Gafiychuk.

To schedule a preparatory court hearing in criminal proceedings on the charge (of Serhiy Gafiychuk – ed.) of committing a criminal offense under Part 3 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, for 09:30 on May 2, 2025
– the decision states.

As is known, the anti-corruption court applied a preventive measure to lawyer Serhiy Gafiychuk in a bribery case.

Oleksandr Boyarsky is a figure in the EBK database.

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO reported suspicions to the judge of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi City District Court of Odessa region, Oleksandr Boyarsky. According to the investigation, the scheme involved issuing court decisions to establish the place of residence of a minor child with his father, so that he could use such a decision as a basis for traveling abroad with her. “Clients” were sought in groups on social networks, and the cost of each court decision ranged from 1,500 to 3,500 US dollars.

Detectives have established that during 2022–2023, more than 1,000 similar decisions were made in the specified district court. At the same time, there were cases of men traveling abroad without a child's accompaniment, determining the child's place of residence in the temporarily occupied territory, forging procedural documents from plaintiffs, and interfering with the automated case distribution system. Currently, the transfer of an illegal benefit of $ 1,500 to one of the judges for the promise to make the "necessary" decision has been documented.

We previously wrote that new details became known in the case of former deputy head of the OP Smirnov.