Detained in Kiev, the judge hid a bribe in a special pocket under the cloak
Detained in Kiev, the judge hid a bribe in a special pocket under the cloak
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The Prosecutor insists on arrest of the suspect.
The detainee before a judge of the Kiev appellate administrative court Igor Petrik questioned in the specialized anticorruption Prosecutor’s office. The judge caught on a bribe in 5 thousand dollars, which he hid under his judicial robe in a special pocket, according to a story TSN.19:30.
The money he got for the decision in favor of a third party in the case of the Ministry of environment against one of the enterprises, which allowed to work with hazardous waste. The government insisted on the abolition of this possibility, and the judge took the money from entrepreneurs who wanted to leave in force the decision of the court of first instance.
The judge of the Kyiv appeal administrative court was caught accepting bribes
TSN. 19:30
Yesterday, 21:17
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We are talking about Igor Petrik – judge of the Kyiv administrative court of appeal. The judge signed the decision in favor of a third party and received 5 thousand dollars. Interestingly, the money he hid under the judicial robe in a special pocket. Now continuing the interrogation, the man has already handed suspicion, this night he will spend in the detention center.
Law enforcement officers raided the judge’s chambers, where they found another 20 thousand hryvnias in cash and the apartment in a sleeping district of the capital. The results of the work of the investigators in the room no information.
In the court of appeal Petrik has been working for six years, and in may successfully passed the test. Now investigators are examining his Declaration, which he has more than 2 million in cash and the purchase of valuable real estate on figureheads in Kiev. The court will consider the petition for custody on Saturday, still the judge is in jail. He faces up to 10 years behind bars.
The correspondent TSN Alla Gazanevskaya