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⚖️ In the Cherkasy region, a man was found guilty of threatening to kill and commit violence against a judge.
In 2021, Judge Daria Sakun of the Zvenyhorodka District Court heard a lawsuit by a man (Valeriy Shtanko) against his ex-wife and daughter seeking to invalidate a deed of gift and a purchase-sale agreement for a house and to recognize his ownership right to half of the couple’s jointly owned property.
The woman received part of the house as a gift from her father, and after his death she inherited the rest and became the sole owner. In 1998 she gifted the house to her daughter, and in 2001 she got divorced. The ex-husband claimed the house and argued that it had been in disrepair and that he had rebuilt it and invested his own money.
However, the judge dismissed the suit and additionally ordered the man who initiated the dispute to pay the court costs — 2500 hryvnias.
In the winter of 2021, just before the New Year, an email containing threats was sent to the judge’s court email. The victim judge reported that the email allegedly was not the only one but several. And the sender did not try to hide who he was. He clearly identified himself, gave his address, and referred to circumstances of the case she was handling.
According to the judge, after the decision was announced this man had previously expressed his dissatisfaction and made threats toward her in the courtroom. To get him to leave the courtroom, the judge had to call court security officers. Unfortunately, the court hearing’s technical recording was turned off and it is impossible to prove that fact. The substance of the threats was roughly that they wanted to see her dead, cut her into pieces, and scatter them to the wind.
The defendant denied the actions charged against him and asked to be acquitted. The decision indeed went against him, but he said the conflict arose with the defendant in the civil case and that he informed law enforcement about that. He claims he did not make threats to the judge and did not send threatening emails. He said he does not own a laptop. The laptop found in his possession belongs to a friend.
Authorities seized the man’s laptop, the manual “Computer at Work and Home: A Self-Study Guide,” and a sheet of paper with a written complaint to the attorney general that included the same address from which the email to the judge was sent.
Bohachevskyi City Court found Shtanko guilty of threats to kill and commit violence against a judge, upheld the charges, and imposed a sentence of 2 years of probationary supervision.
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