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Shabunin explained which exactly scoundrels can avoid punishment through the falsification of the law on the Anti-Corruption Court
«Nasirov, Trukhanov, Martynenko and Co. thank you for an 'indulgence' in the law on the anti-corruption court».
This was written by Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Center for Combating Corruption, in his blog on Ukrainska Pravda.
«Yesterday we found that in the law on the new anti-corruption court there sneaked in an amendment that basically grants indulgences to the old well-known corruption brotherhood.
And while we were discussing this issue, somewhere the defendants of NABU were secretly celebrating, whose cases are already being considered by courts or will soon begin to be.
Because the committee gave them a provision according to which appeals of their cases will be considered also in the old general courts, and not in the newly established anti-corruption court. This means that their cases may never reach the anti-corruption court, while the very 'heroes' will receive lenient verdicts from old judges or even avoid real punishment altogether.
Apparently, in their joy yesterday the former head of the State Fiscal Service Roman Nasirov was sipping champagne, because there will be no need to feign a heart attack and cover himself with a checkered blanket in court to avoid accountability.
Recall that Nasirov is accused of illegally allowing the companies of the deputy who fled, Onyshenko, not to pay the state rent for using subsoil. Because of Nasirov's actions, we have lost more than 2 billion hryvnias — a third of the state budget for medicines for seriously ill patients!
Olexander Onyshenko himself rubs his hands; the case for a remote hearing is also soon to be transferred to court, as well as his associates, whose cases have been in courts for over a year. The state lost three billion hryvnias due to Onyshenko's schemes.
The indulgence will also be granted to former MP Mykola Martynenko, who is accused of creating a criminal organization to embezzle funds of a state enterprise to the amount of 462 million hryvnias.
This norm brought joy to former military prosecutor of the ATO forces Konstantin Kulik, who is accused of illegal enrichment, to the director of the 'Firtash' ZTMK Volodymyr Sivak, who is accused of embezzling 500 million hryvnias of our money, and former head of the State Grain Corporation Valeriy Tomilenko, who is accused of embezzling 50 million hryvnias.
The owner of gold bars, head of the State Auditing Service Lidia Gavrilova, who is accused of illegal enrichment by 10 million hryvnias and lying in a declaration, could also escape punishment.
The same 'joy' may await cases of top corruption that are about to be transferred to courts. For example, they are pleased that they will avoid meeting with the new anti-corruption judges and prison, the son of the Minister of Internal Affairs Avakov, who, together with his father's deputy, implemented a scheme of misappropriating budget funds for backpacks, and also the 'amber' deputies Boryslav Rozenblat and Maksym Polyakov.
Odessa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov and seven of his associates, who are suspected of embezzling 185 million hryvnias of Odessa residents, could get away dry from this norm. NABU has opened materials of this case for review and soon will refer to court.
All these people are endlessly grateful for the chance provided to them to avoid punishment in the law on the new anti-corruption court.
And if lawmakers do not urgently submit and vote for a bill to fix this mistake, then the Parliament's 'victory' will be not the law on the anti-corruption court, but a gifted indulgence to top corruptionists, — writes the author.
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