Supreme Court to Review Interpol Head’s Acquittal

The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for July 31 to consider an appeal against the verdict that acquitted Vasyl Nevolya, the head of the Department of International Police Cooperation of the National Police - head of the National Central Bureau of Interpol in Ukraine, of charges of false declaration. 

As is known, the High Anti-Corruption Court acquitted Nevolya. The Appeals Chamber of the HACC left this verdict unchanged. The prosecutor of the HACC filed a cassation appeal against the decision of the HACC.

To complete the preparation in the criminal proceedings regarding (Nevolya – ed.). To schedule the cassation review of the criminal proceedings on the prosecutor’s cassation appeal against the ruling of the Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court dated August 13, 2024 in the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court for 10:00 on July 31, 2025

Recall that, according to the prosecution, the head of the Interpol Central Bureau in Ukraine, Nevolya, entered knowingly false information into the annual declaration of a person authorized to perform state or local government functions for 2020, which differed from the true information by an amount from 500 to 4,000 subsistence minimums for able-bodied persons (Part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The authorities believe that the head of the Interpol department did not indicate his apartment in Kyiv, his wife as a family member, and her apartment in Brovary, Kyiv region.

Earlier it became known that the Supreme Court of Ukraine continued the investigation into the case of the former deputy minister.

We also wrote that the SSU detained a tax official for taking a bribe of $20,000.