The media published the names of the judges and the amount of bribes they received from the former owner of Ibox Bank, sanctioned Alena Shevtsova.
360ua.news writes about this .
As a reminder, Alyona Degryk-Shevtsova is under NSDC sanctions and is accused of laundering 5 billion UAH through Ibox Bank. Shevtsova is currently hiding abroad, but has already come to the attention of European law enforcement agencies due to money laundering in Poland.
To “solve” her problems with the law in Ukraine and avoid criminal liability, Alena Degryk-Shevtsova corrupted dozens of Ukrainian judges who made illegal decisions in her favor, causing the state budget to lose billions of hryvnias.
In particular, the judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Svitlana Shaputko, canceled the notice of suspicion against Alena Shevtsova, which allowed the fraudster to withdraw approximately UAH 180 million from the arrested accounts. Judge Shaputko received about EUR 200,000 for her “services”. According to journalist Serhiy Ivanov, the issue of bringing Judge Shaputko to justice is currently being resolved.
200 thousand euros from Alena Shevtsova.
“Later, the Kyiv Court of Appeal overturned this decision as illegal, but Shevtsova managed to lift the arrests on her property and funds and transfer millions of hryvnias, registering these transfers as charitable contributions to the accounts of a number of public and charitable organizations. That is, under martial law, these structures were actually used to withdraw funds, and not exclusively to help the state,” noted journalist Serhiy Ivanov.
As a reminder, judge Svitlana Shaputko is linked to Oleg Tatarov. In particular, according to Hromadske, Shaputko defended her scientific dissertation under the supervision of the deputy head of the President's Office.
The media has also repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that Judge Svitlana Shaputko is conducting the most high-profile cases in the interests of the Office of the President. In particular, Shaputko closed the high-profile case against Yermak's deputy Rostyslav Shurma, which was being investigated by anti-corruption agencies.
As a reminder, in 2024, the BEP and the SBU sent criminal proceedings against the chairman of the board of Ibox Bank and other employees of this bank to the court. However, Alyona Shevtsova, through lawyers from the orbit of former military prosecutor Anatoly Matios and his ex-deputy Dmytro Borzykh, established a large-scale scheme to corrupt Ukrainian courts.
In fact, according to investigative journalists, a number of Ukrainian judges themselves took the initiative and entered into a criminal conspiracy, first imposing arrests on Shevtsova's property, and then canceling them for bribes of 50-80 thousand dollars.
As a result, the legal proceedings surrounding the Ibox Bank case continue to this day. For example, the case of the chairman of the board of Ibox Bank, who is Shevtsova's accomplice, has been under consideration for about a year and a half. And this is despite the fact that he admits his guilt, and as of today, not even a preparatory court hearing has been held.
The former chairman of the board of iBox Bank is being helped to avoid real punishment by the judges of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv, who are one after another recusing themselves, which actually makes the trial impossible. The story is similar for other bank employees, materials against whom were sent by indictment to the Shevchenkivskyi Court, which for years has not even been able to hold hearings in cases related to iBox Bank.
It is worth noting separately the judge of the Lychakivskyi District Court of Lviv, Yuriy Bilous , who for 150 thousand US dollars made the necessary decisions for Shevtsova.
Later, Judge Yuriy Bilous was detained by the State Bureau of Investigation together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) for illegal enrichment and bribery. At the same time, as journalists from Suspilny report despite suspicions of crimes, Judge Yuriy Bilous returned to work, which indicates that he has high-ranking patrons, probably the same Oleg Tatarov.
Subsequently, the indictment against Alena Shevtsova, which was sent to the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv, was considered by Judge Olga Vdovichenko . Judge Olga Vdovichenko's husband worked for a long time in the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, reporting to the aforementioned Prosecutor Anatoly Matios.
On July 29, 2025, Vdovichenko closed the criminal proceedings against Shevtsova. According to sources, this decision increased the judge's family budget by $500,000.
According to investigative journalists, when the Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the Kyiv Court of Appeal, sanctioned Alena Shevtsova raised the amount of the “offer” for the judges to 1 million 200 thousand US dollars. And the panel of judges consisting of Victoria Yakovleva, Olga Zhuk and Andriy Dryga could not resist this temptation. According to journalist Sergey Ivanov, “ all materials on the fact of receiving illegal benefits by judges Yakovleva, Zhuk and Dryga have been transferred to the relevant authorities .”
We will remind, during the session, threats were made against journalist Lyubov Velichko for her attempt to cover the trial in the case of Alena Shevtsova in the Kyiv Court of Appeal, due to which the state suffered losses in the amount of more than 5 billion hryvnias . Also, according to Velichko, “a mysterious man in a stylish business suit was present at the trial – who whispered with the lawyers before the session, and later whisperedly forbade me to publish his photo from the courtroom. And, of course, he did not introduce himself .”
