NABU fails to detain bribe-taking judge who flees while shooting

Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk has briefed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about an unsuccessful operation to detain a judge who was caught red-handed while taking a bribe.

”The National Anti-Corruption Bureau`s director informed the president about a special operation to detain a judge who has been caught taking a bribe worth UAH 500,000 (about $19,000),” Presidential Press Secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

The judge started shooting and, using his judicial immunity, fled, he wrote.

”The president has instructed the SBU [Security Service of Ukraine] to take measures to detain him,” the press secretary added.

Later, the NABU posted an official statement on its website on the operation conducted by NABU detectives jointly with the national police, saying that it was a judge from Odesa`s Malynovsky district court.
The bribe was paid to the judge through a go-between for a ”right” ruling in a debt recovery case.

NABU detectives have launched a pre-trial investigation into the case on charges of bribe-taking under Part 4 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
”Searches and other investigative measures are under way. Possible involvement of the deputy chairman of Odesa`s Malynovsky district court in the crime is being examined,” the NABU said in the statement.

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