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Together with Serhiy Nechyporenko, his accomplice was acquitted as well.
The Shevchenkivskyi district court of Kyiv acquitted former prosecutor of the Podilskyi district Serhiy Nechyporenko and former deputy prosecutor Oleksiy Bily. They had been under suspicion since 2016 years, and later charged with bribery. The acquittal was issued in September, 21.
“Evaluating all examined evidence individually and collectively, and their interrelation, the court comes to the conclusion that by the prosecution’s side beyond a reasonable doubt it has not been proven that a criminal offense was committed, in which the defendants OSOB A 22 and OSOB A 23 are charged, under the factual circumstances set forth in the indictment, as a result the latter should be found not guilty and acquitted on the grounds of paragraph 1 part 1 article 373 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine,” the court’s decision states.
Considering that the verdict is an acquittal, the court ruling states that procedural costs in the case do not need to be charged to the defendants.
Note that Serhiy Nechyporenko was the son-in-law of pro-Russian politician and lawyer Serhiy Kivalov.
Nechyporenko and Bily were detained on 30 November 2015 of the year. They were suspected of taking a bribe of 150 thousand dollars. At the then rate this was about 3 million UAH. According to the investigation, they demanded the money for closing a criminal proceeding. In January 2016 they were released from custody on bail.
At the same time, as Schemes previously reported, Nechyporenko managed to lift the arrest or avoid it being imposed on land plots, cars, and real estate. In particular, the former prosecutor rewrote his property to his wife Iryna Orekhova, with whom he divorced two weeks after the arrest and signed an agreement on the division of property. Moreover, according to journalists, Nechyporenko, together with his second wife, bought luxury property not only when he headed the Kyiv district prosecutor’s office but also after leaving public service and going through lustration. Moreover, the former prosecutor’s family owned real estate even in Bulgaria, where Nechyporenko actively flew at the time the investigation was ongoing. Journalists also found out that his older son studied at private schools in the United Kingdom.
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