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🍎 HOW MUCH DOES FREEDOM COST IN UKRAINE? Why does Ukrainian justice protect the “elite”?
⚖️ The High Anti‑Corruption Court, for receiving a bribe of 2 000 US dollars, sentenced the judge of the Pavlohrad City and District Court of Dnipropetrovsk region, Oleksandr Shcherbyna, to 5 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
https://t.me/hcacofficial/7036
📸 Footage of the judge’s arrest with 1 000 USD in a bag among apples circulated online last year.
We are also publishing it, alongside the famous “dollar” couch from Vsevolod “zakhody” Knyazev’s apartment, on which a million dollars lay.
A thousand times more.
💰 The total amount of the bribe (in our view, the subject of fraud) received by Knyazev amounted to 2,7 million US dollars. That is 1 350 times more than the judge from Pavlohrad.
🤷♂️ However, the punishment for both judges is exactly the same — 5 years of imprisonment each.
Even a “pitiful bundle of money,” in the words of Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoiskyi, was not received by Judge Shcherbyna, yet he received a full 5 years in prison.
📌 Conclusion:
This paradox looks like an outright mockery of the concept of justice. While a regional judge receives 5 years for a “bag with apples,” the former head of the Supreme Court, for a million‑dollar bribe, “receives” exactly the same term through a “plea agreement.”
Such compromises increasingly create in society a persistent impression: the plea bargain institution itself has become a corruption‑generating tool.
A dangerous precedent is being set: if you stole millions, you can simply “buy off” a minimal sentence by handing over a few accomplices or transferring a sum that is trivial for you to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For top-level corrupt officials, plea deals become a legal price list to avoid real punishment, which ultimately destroys people’s faith in equality before the law.
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