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The criminal case against Ihor Zvacrych, the former Head of the Lviv Court of Appeal was initiated by General Prosecutor’s Office in December 2008 by bringing the bribery charges. Since March 2009 he has been under arrest and was further sentenced for ten years of imprisonment with confiscation of his property for taking bribes in the amount of about UAH 963,000.00. According to information available, the above decision was appealed in October 2011 and is pending consideration by the respective Appellate Court.
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Criminal charges against Yuriy Lutsenko, the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine include exceeding the powers which caused grave consequences (paragraph 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); abuse of the powers (paragraph 3 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and taking of the state assets in particularly large size by means of abuse of the powers (paragraph 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Yuriy Lutsenko was arrested in December 2010 and the court hearing in the case began in May 2011 and is still ongoing. Yuriy Lutsenko continues to stay under the arrest in pretrial detention center in Kyiv.
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In April 2011 the General Prosecutor’s Office initiated criminal case against the former Prime-Minister of Ukraine on the grounds of exceeding the powers which caused the severe consequences (paragraph 3 of Article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) whilst entering into the gas deal with Russian Federation in January 2009. In August 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested in the course of the court hearing of the case. In October 2011 she was found guilty and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. In addition, the Pecherskyy District Court of Kyiv ordered Yulia Tymoshenko to pay approximately UAH 1,5 billion to NJSC “Nafrogas Ukraina” in damages. On December 23, 2011 Kyiv Appellate Court confirmed the verdict of the court of first instance.
The decision of the court of the second instance can be appealed. The respective application to the European Court of Human Rights has been already submitted.
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This case goes back to 2005 and is considered to be the major fraud in the contemporary history of Ukraine on the real estate market. The fraud scheme included fake construction companies, selling out the same future apartment for several times to different people and even financing from the financial institutions. There are approximately 1700 victims of the crime whose damages amount to multimillion sum in total.
One of the founders of the above company was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment with confiscation of his property in March 2009. Another individual involved is currently put on the wanted list.
The criminal charges against the organizer of the fraud relate to fraud (Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), misuse of the powers (Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); and legalization (money laundering) of the funds obtained by means of crime (Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). On January 17, 2012 Kyiv Appellate Court confirmed the decision of Pecherskyy District Court to refer the criminal case against the organizer for further investigation.
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