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Recently appointed judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court Iryna Teslenko refused the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and MP from the banned party OPZZh, Oleksandr Kachnyi, permission to conclude an agreement under which he was to transfer 3 million UAH to the Come Back Alive fund and an additional 13 million to the state budget. Ukrainian blogger and civic activist, former adviser to the defense minister on increasing UAV use at the front Serhii Sternenko reported this on the social network X on 5 October.
According to him, the judge justified this by saying that such a voluntary contribution "does not correspond to the interests of society" and "lies outside the control of the parties signing the agreement and the court." She pointed out that it would then be impossible to monitor where the funds went, Sternenko said, and he disagreed with that assertion.
He assured that Come Back Alive’s reporting is "the most transparent and the most detailed" among Ukrainian charitable foundations, so, in his view, "writing that about this fund is absurd."
The volunteer also criticized the judge’s advice to send the funds to the budget, emphasizing that "it will be precisely there that it will be impossible to trace their further movement." He added that there "the funds could disappear entirely."
"I will note separately that this is not compensation for damages, but a donation that the defendant agreed to send to the military. And he, Kachnyi, has a serious illness. Without the agreement it is highly likely that he will not be prosecuted and will not pay anything anywhere at all. So why did Judge Teslenko act this way? To create a precedent and block all future agreements involving donations to the army," Sternenko wrote, saying he does not understand her motivation and asking whether the judge realizes the consequences of her actions.
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