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The High Anti-Corruption Court opened iCase logs to the lawyer of “Slon.”
The investigative judge partially granted the defense’s motion for the sanctioned Chernivtsi smuggler Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Yerimichuk — listed in his Romanian passport as Alexandru Yerimiciuc.
The lawyer gained access to the audit logs of the iCase system in the separated proceeding No. 52024000000000465.
What he’s charged with
The proceedings were split off on 11 September 2024 from the large customs case No. 52017000000000802, which NABU has been investigating since November 2017.
Yerimichuk has been under suspicion since 16 April 2024: creating a criminal organization, aiding and abetting abuse of official position, evading taxes on an especially large scale, and giving a bribe.
According to the investigation, no later than 8 December 2016 he and another organizer agreed to transport clothing, footwear, bags, and fabric from Turkey in transit through the EU or from Romania. Trucks at the checkpoint were documented as empty. The scheme involved the head of the customs office: without him the goods could not be released into free circulation.
The investigation divides the organization into three groups. The first and second were run by businessmen, the third by customs officers. From 2 March 2017 to 26 May 2019, Yerimichuk’s group, the suspicion says, underpaid 60,34 million UAH in import duty and 145,98 million UAH in VAT. In total 206,32 million UAH — an especially large amount.
In the public sphere this story is called the case of the Chernivtsi customs office and the Vadul-Siret checkpoint.
NABU and the SAP notified 11 people of suspicion, among them former customs head Mykola Salagor and businessman Yuriy Kushnir. The bureau’s statements put the organization’s total losses at about 290 million UAH. Some defendants have already struck deals with prosecutors. Yerimichuk is wanted. The VACCA appeal in October 2025 left his pretrial detention in absentia. NSDC sanctions and deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship have been in place since 2021.
Why the defense requested the logs
Yerimichuk left Ukraine on 20 December 2023 — months before the suspicion. The defense says the detective and the SAP prosecutor knew he was a Romanian citizen living abroad, but entered the suspicion into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations without proper notification, seized his wife’s property for special confiscation, declared a nationwide and international search, obtained a VACCA ruling on his pretrial detention on 14 May 2024 and separated the case into a separate proceeding.
The iCase logs, the lawyer believes, will show who and when opened the case, what documents were uploaded, and whether there was any leak.
What the court allowed
Access only to the separated case file No. 52024000000000465 and only for the period from 11 September 2024 to 5 August 2026: who viewed the case map, tabs, attachments, who printed and exported PDFs, from which IPs and under which logins.
The judges denied access to the old “parent” case No. 52017000000000802: it is already in court, and the defense can review the materials there.
In December 2025 NABU had already opened the investigation’s materials to Yerimichuk and summoned him regarding Denys Monastyrsky, 3. He did not appear for the summons. The special investigation is proceeding in absentia.
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