Tarasuk, the lawyer who defended Shil, was sentenced to nine years in a bribery case
Attorney Serhiy Tarasyuk is the personal lawyer of Serhiy Tokarev, the owner of the online casino Cosmolot.
In late 2025, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the sentences of two former employees of the Kyiv tax office and Tarasyuk himself in a bribery case.
The case involved $36,000 in exchange for the return of funds and property seized during searches.
The court sentenced Tarasyuk to nine years in prison, with a three-year ban on practicing law and the confiscation of his property.
He also served as the defense attorney for former Presidential Office adviser Artem Shil in the case of embezzlement at Ukrzaliznytsia.
According to available data, the lawyer owns ten luxury apartments. In March 2026, the court seized, among other things, an apartment in Irpin.
As a reminder, Artem Shilo is implicated in a case involving a procurement scheme worth 15 million hryvnias at Ukrzaliznytsia.
Business "under the protection" of Artem Shilo: what is known about the investigation into embezzlement at 4bill.
As a reminder, the case involving the embezzlementof 140 million hryvnias in procurement for Ukrzaliznytsia has been referred to court: Bondar and Shilo are among the defendants.
