Position: former Deputy of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine.
Sphere of corruption: judicial.
Region of corruption activity: Kyiv.
Qualification: suspected of participation in a criminal organization and participation in crimes committed by such an organization, and of receiving a bribe (Part 1 of Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, Part 2 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (as amended by Law No. 2341-III of 05.04.2001).
Status: detained.
Case story: In 2024, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained the former deputy chairman of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine. He is suspected of bribery.
According to investigators, the former judge, who now works as a lawyer, together with other court employees, earned money from bribes. For money, they made the necessary decisions, mostly in economic disputes. According to the State Bureau of Investigation, the organizer of the illegal scheme is also a former official of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine. Interfering in the distribution of cases, he gave them to judges for consideration, who made the necessary decisions for bribes. According to "Schemes", this is fugitive judge Viktor Tatkov.
Themis employees put this process on hold, for a long time they actually made it impossible for the court to make decisions in most cases without bribes. Earlier, the organizer was put on the wanted list, he and a number of other participants in the criminal scheme were notified of suspicion, including for creating and participating in a criminal organization
Artur Yemelyanov was charged with participation in a criminal organization and receiving a bribe. He faces up to 12 years in prison. Law enforcement officers continue to identify all those involved in the corruption scheme.
In May 2025, Yemelyanov was detained immediately after the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv decided to change his preventive measure from detention to personal recognizance.
Yemelyanov agreed that the judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court would return the petition to extend his detention to the Pechersk court as not within the jurisdiction of the High Anti-Corruption Court.
Judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Olena Busyk, responded to the petition and made a corresponding decision on May 30. However, SBI officers detained Yemelyanov in another criminal case. This is a case of encroachment on the economic security of Ukraine in the interests of the enemy.
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes: being identified.
Assets: in his 2021 tax return, Artur Yemelyanov listed a house, an apartment, a wristwatch, a carbine, and a moped as vehicles. He also declared cash in the amount of 400,000 hryvnias and 125,000 US dollars. In addition, 240,599 hryvnias and 59,994 US dollars are placed in bank accounts in domestic financial institutions.
Persons who should have reacted: in the case of Yemelyanov, law enforcement officers reacted in a timely manner.
Scandals: he is the subject of a number of journalistic investigations. In 2017, journalists discovered that his ex-wife had luxury real estate in Turkey, the UAE, Austria, and Germany. These were villas, apartments, and hotel complexes. Svetlana Emelyanova purchased most of the property before the divorce. It is known that Artur Emelyanova's wife Svetlana owns a large number of real estate properties abroad, as well as a chain of hotels in Europe. According to media reports, she owns a villa in Antalya (Turkey), an apartment in Dubai (UAE), two hotels in Vienna (Austria), and a company registered in Germany that manages three hotels in Frankfurt am Main. In 2014, after more than 20 years of marriage, Emelyanova divorced his wife. At the same time, he continues to vacation with her abroad, which, according to the authors of the program, may indicate the fictitious nature of the divorce.
Svetlana Yemelyanova purchased a villa in the Seashell Belek Elite Villas complex on the Mediterranean coast in Turkey in 2011 for $250,000. A year later, she bought an apartment in the Palm Jumeirah / North Residences complex in the capital of the UAE for the equivalent of $350,000. Since April 2014, the judge's ex-wife has been a shareholder in the Austrian companies AHL REAL PEU GmbH and AHL REAL KAV GmbH, which respectively own the Prinz Eugen and Kavalier hotels in Vienna. Their value in 2012 exceeded 9 million euros. In 2016, Svetlana Yemelyanova became a co-owner of AVIAWEB GmbH, which manages three hotels of the FAIR HOTEL chain in Frankfurt am Main: Hotel Villa Diana, Hotel an der Messe and Hotel Europaallee.
The journalists of "Schemes" noted that Yemelyanova purchased most of the foreign real estate before her divorce from her husband. At the same time, according to her tax returns, her income in 2001-2014 was only 3 million hryvnias.
Sources:
https://public.nazk.gov.ua/documents/240c1907-4deb-41c6-bd3e-760988bafae9