The State Bureau of Investigation reported the suspicion of a judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv, who is suspected of committing treason. He became a suspect in a criminal case due to the illegal collection of funds from the state budget of Ukraine in favor of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
"Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation, under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office, reported the suspicion to the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv and to the former top management of the state," the message reads.
"The acting judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv, the fugitive President and the Prime Minister of his time were notified of suspicion of treason (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 111 in the edition of 04/05/2001)," they said. also in the Prosecutor General's Office.
According to the SBI, it was established that as early as 2011, the Russian Federation involved the then president, prime minister of Ukraine and a judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv, as well as heads of various branches of the judicial system, in subversive activities against Ukraine.
As reported, the leadership of the Russian Federation developed a plan according to which the financing of defense capabilities and the armed forces of Russia would be financed at the expense of the State Budget of Ukraine under the pretext of implementing the decision of the Economic Court of Kyiv to repay a non-existent debt.
So, as the SBI pointed out, in 2011 the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation addressed the leadership of Ukraine with a letter of demand to return the non-existent debt of $405.5 million, which allegedly arose back in 1996-1997 for the supplied natural gas.
"Our state had nothing to do with the debt of a commercial enterprise and could not bear responsibility for it. However, in 2011, the former leadership of the country began to emphasize in the mass media that Ukraine should repay the specified amount to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In addition, a letter was prepared to the Security Service of Ukraine with a request to prosecute the head of the economic entity for allegedly transferring this debt to the state," the SBI notes.
Accordingly, in order to reverse this scheme, as reported by the SBI, the leadership of the judicial system and the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv were involved in it to collect a "debt" in favor of the Russian Federation based on an illegal court decision.
According to the scheme developed by the participants, as indicated, "in August 2012, the Ministry of Finance filed a lawsuit against the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to the Economic Court of Kyiv for the recovery of over 3 billion hryvnias from the state budget."
"Part of the funds were collected from Ukraine in order to implement the said illegal court decision in favor of the Russian Federation. After the beginning of the aggression of the Russian Federation against our country and the change of the state leadership, in 2014 another judge of the Economic Court overturned this illegal decision, but it was not possible to return the money unjustifiably collected in the interests of Russia. According to the investigation, these funds were used to finance the so-called SVO," the SBI reports.
