HACC Sentences Salnikov to 3 Years

The High Anti-Corruption Court found former head of the State Judicial Administration, Oleksiy Salnikov, guilty of abuse of influence. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

According to them, Salnikov was found guilty of abuse of influence, reclassified as a crime of inciting a person to bribery. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison with a ban on holding certain positions for 3 years after imprisonment.

This verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed to the Appeals Chamber of the HACC within 30 days.

The Supreme Court later confirmed the verdict.

On August 6, the panel of judges of the HACC  announced a verdict against the former head of the State Judicial Administration, according to which it found him guilty of committing a criminal offense under Part 2 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of influence). The accused was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold positions in state and local government bodies for a period of 3 years. Along with this, the specified person was found not guilty of committing an offense under Part 2 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

Alexey Salnikov is a suspect in the EBK database.

As a reminder, NABU and SAPO informed Salnikov of the suspicion. According to the investigation, in March of this year, the head of the State Judicial Administration received $7,500 from an individual. He was supposed to keep part of these funds for himself, and $5,000 was supposedly transferred to the judges of the Supreme Court for making a decision in the interests of a commercial enterprise.

In the future, the head of the State Judicial Administration promised to assist in the decision of the Supreme Court judges, in particular by involving its former head, Vsevolod Knyazev. However, after the former head of the Supreme Court was exposed for receiving an illegal benefit, Salnikov's behavior changed dramatically and he began to evade resolving the issue, although he had no intention of returning the illegal benefit he had received.

We previously reported that the HACC extended the duties of Judge Honchar.

We also wrote that NABU had completed the investigation into Kyrylenko.