The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) upheld the position of the prosecutor of the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) and left unchanged the decision of the court of first instance recognising UAH 3.3 million as unjustified assets and ordering their seizure to the state (civil forfeiture). The assets belong to the family of the head of one of the departments of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv.
These include an apartment in Kyiv and a 2016 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG car, which are formally owned by the official's wife but are actually used by him.
During monitoring of the lifestyle of the official and his family, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) established that they did not have sufficient funds to purchase the specified assets legally. The same conclusion was reached by the SAPO prosecutors, who obtained independent evidence.
The court agreed with the prosecutor's arguments and denied the defendant's appeal. The decision of the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court comes into force from the moment it is announced.
We remind you that the basis for monitoring the lifestyle of the official was information from the head of the Anti-Corruption Centre MEZHA, published on the website of Ukrayinska Pravda, which stated that he had included information in his 2022 declaration about the value of an apartment in a high-rise building in the capital, which is only UAH 15,000 and a car worth UAH 3,000.
It should also be noted that, in accordance with Part 2 of Article 65-1 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Preventing Corruption’ and paragraph 10 of Part 1 of Article 77 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the National Police,’ a person authorised to perform the functions of the state or local self-government, in respect of whom a court decision has entered into force recognising assets as unjustified and ordering their confiscation to the state, shall be dismissed from office in accordance with the procedure established by law.
