Position : ex-judge of the Slovyansk city-district court of the Donetsk region.
Region of corruption activity: Donetsk region.
Qualification: Part 3 of Article 368. Acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an improper benefit by an official. It is punishable by deprivation of liberty for a term of five to ten years with confiscation of property.
Status: Sentenced to 5.5 years of imprisonment. There is a punishment.
Story of the case: In August 2017, judge Ihor Minayev received a petition for administrative offense for driving a vehicle while intoxicated. Already in September, Ihor Minaev met at a gas station with the lawyer of the person against whom a petition for an administrative violation was filed. Ihor Minayev was called to this meeting by the lawyer himself, who was previously familiar with him.
During the meeting, the lawyer asked Judge Ihor Minayev to carefully study the case materials and make a fair decision. A few days ago, Judge Ihor Minaev met with a lawyer near the Sloviansk City District Court and said that he is ready to make a decision in favor of the offender if he hands over 6,000 hryvnias to him.
When the lawyer met with the offender and gave him information from judge Igor Minayev that he was ready to make a decision in his favor for 6 thousand hryvnias, the offender stated that he did not have such funds. To which the lawyer stated that in this case he would not deal with this case and advised the offender to look for a new defense attorney.
A few days later, the offender turned to a new lawyer and informed him that Judge Ihor Minayev demanded a bribe of 6,000 hryvnias for making a decision in his favor.
The new lawyer came to the building of the Sloviansk City District Court and told Judge Minaev that he was asking to postpone the case in connection with the change of defense counsel. Judge Ihor Minaev, in turn, informed the new lawyer that he is ready to make a decision in favor of the offender for 6 thousand hryvnias. A few days later, a new lawyer in the premises of the Sloviansk City District Court handed Judge Ihor Minaev a bribe of 6 thousand hryvnias. The judge put this money in his safe in his office, and in a few minutes he was detained by law enforcement officers.
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes:
Judge Ihor Minaev carried out his criminal acts on his own. There is no information about accomplices in open sources.
Fortune:
There is no information on the wealth of judge Ihor Minayev or his declaration in open sources.
Scandals: In open sources, there is no information about the scandals in which judge Ihor Minaev got into, except for his detention for a bribe of 6 thousand hryvnias, for which he was exposed and detained.
Persons who should have reacted:
It is worth noting that the law enforcement agencies reacted to the corrupt actions of judge Ihor Minayev. He was detained for receiving a bribe. His guilt was proven in court, and the court sentenced him to 5.5 years in prison.
Sources:
https://public.nazk.gov.ua/documents/list?q=Мінаєв+Ігор+Миколайович&date_from=&date_to=