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11 years of imprisonment for bribery: fugitive judge located👤
The NABU and SAP located former judge of the Babushkinsky District Court of Dnipropetrovsk city, Andriy Leonov, who had been hiding from serving his sentence for more than three years.
In May 2018 he was exposed for demanding a bribe of 30 thousand USD and receiving part of that sum. For the money he promised to recognize the victimized farm as injured party and to issue, in the case of raiding and document forgery, a sentence without imprisonment.
In March 2023 the High Anti-Corruption Court found Andriy Leonov guilty and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment, banned him from holding the office of judge for three years, and confiscated all property belonging to him.
However, Andriy Leonov did not appear for the pronouncement of the sentence or the appeal hearing. In June 2023 he was declared wanted.
As a result of a series of operational-search measures, NABU detectives established the convict’s whereabouts and detained him. To remain unnoticed, he hid in secret premises, traveled along sparsely populated routes, used vehicles with altered license plates and two-wheeled transport. In some cases he even wore a National Police of Ukraine uniform.
The detainee has now been delivered to the pretrial detention center.