The Prosecutor General's Office has filed an indictment against a judge of the Brovary City District Court of Kyiv Oblast and his accomplice, a lawyer, for forging documents to illegally leave Ukraine during martial law.
How did the judge leave the country?
The investigation established that in March 2023, the judge, while on annual leave, decided to go on vacation abroad. However, judges are only allowed to travel on official business. To circumvent this ban, he turned to a lawyer he knew.
Together, they devised a scheme: they forged an invitation to an international event, which became the basis for a fake travel order. The judge used these documents to cross the border and go on a Caribbean cruise.
What is the threat to the accused?
In addition to illegally crossing the border, the judges also paid his salary for the time of his "business trip" - about 60 thousand hryvnias. Now he faces liability for forgery of documents, fraud and their use (Articles 358, 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The lawyer is accused of aiding and abetting document forgery, fraud, and facilitating the illegal smuggling of a person across the state border. Now the fate of both will be decided by the court.
