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Kyiv Court of Appeal left unchanged the acquittal verdict concerning 59-year-old head of the charitable foundation "HartS" Yury Yerinyak, known as the so-called "authoritative businessman" nicknamed "Moldovan"/"Yura Moldovan", who was accused of illegal arms trafficking (part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
This was reported by the publication "Detective.Info".
According to the verdict, the text of which was published in the open part of the Unified Register of Judicial Proceedings at the beginning of July of this year, the panel of judges consisting of presiding judge Halyna Balatska and fellow judges Irina Gorb and Olga Zhuk made the decision.
Given the absence of cassation complaints on the Court's portal, this is a legal statement of the failure of law enforcement to hold Moldovan accountable in a case that stems from the intentions of domestic authorities to reallocate spheres of influence among the beneficiaries of Ukraine's largest gas production company shortly after the events of the Euromaidan. The investigation focused on clarifying the circumstances of the February 2012 year kidnapping of the then general director of JSC Naftogazvydobuvannya, now a member of parliament 9 of the convocation, Oleg Seminsky. And the individuals considered involved in the audacious crime were "twisted" with additional criminal records.
As previously reported on Detektiv-Info pages (in detail in the material "Naked Pistols"), one of the most notable figures in this saga fell to Yerinyak. Moldovan was accused of involvement in robberies, banditry, extortion, and kidnapping (but without the episode of the "stolen Oleg Seminsky"), and in autumn 2015 the indictment against Yuri Grigorovich and his associates was sent to court.
Here the case languished for a long time, which is not the case with the numerous support groups and bodyguards of former "colleagues in the trade" from among the defendants, among whom a "black cat" ran. Primarily, there was a conflict between the founder of HartS and the authoritative president of the Ukrainian Handball Federation Andriy Melnyk, nicknamed "Dlinnyi". In October 2018 the latter organized a large brawl and almost destroyed one of the courtroom halls of the Solomianskyi Palace of Justice in the capital.
Behind the scenes of fierce fights and mutual insults, a significant legal fact somewhat faded into the background. In the summer 2019 it became known about a change of prosecutors regarding Yerinyak and Co. From the diverse list of charges against Moldovan for particularly serious violent crimes, the claims of law enforcement were limited to illegal weapons trafficking (part 1 of article 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). It involved pistols and ammunition for the "Glock 19" and the "Browning" found at the Yuri Grigorovich Yerinyk residence 14 in March 2015 year.
Yerinyak argued that these "stoves" were planted by the very law enforcement officers who, during a search, allegedly also stole 23 thousand dollars of savings of the HartS leader.
23 January 2020 year, as previously reported by Detektiv-Info, the first-instance court acquitted the Moldovan in the case of the "naked pistols". After that the proceedings were sent to the Court of Appeal, where it has been under consideration for six years.
25 February 2021 year, on Yerinyak's birthday, the law enforcement officially announced charges against him and four other figures in the scandalous story about the "stolen Oleg" (former minister of transportation, MP of several convocations Mykola Rudkovskyi, member of the Zakarpattia regional council Stepan Derkach, Andriy Shikori known as "Karatisyt", and Melnyk - "Dlinnyi") of involvement in organizing in 2012 year the kidnapping (part 3 of article 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), torture (part 2 of article 187 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and extortion (part 4 of article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) of 200 million dollars from the former general director of JSC Naftogazvydobuvannya. Since then Moldovan has de facto been wanted (including internationally); attempts by Yuri Grigorovich's lawyers to obtain cancellation of his suspicion have so far proven futile.
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