The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the bail amounts for three Supreme Court justices
The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACC) fully upheld the legality of the previously imposed preventive measures against three sitting Supreme Court justices.
In its ruling, the judicial panel dismissed the appeals filed both by the prosecutor, who had insisted on stricter measures, and by the suspects’ defense attorneys. The rulings of the investigating judges of the first instance dated May 21, 25, and 28, 2026, remain in effect, and the appellate court’s decisions themselves took legal effect immediately upon their announcement and are no longer subject to further appeal in cassation.
According to the materials of the pre-trial investigation, representatives of the country’s highest judicial authority are officially suspected of receiving an unlawful benefit on an especially large scale, committed by a group of individuals acting in concert. Depending on the degree of probable involvement in the corruption scheme, bail amounts of 3 million hryvnias, 2.5 million hryvnias, and 2 million hryvnias were set for the defendants, respectively.
This was reported by the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court on Facebook.
In May 2023, the NABU announced the exposure of a scheme involving the receipt of an illegal benefit of $2.7 million by the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court. According to the investigation, the bribe was related to a decision adopted on April 19, 2023, by the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court in a case regarding the legality of the 2002 acquisition of a stake in the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant by Ferrexpo, a company in which businessman Kostyantyn Zhevago is a shareholder.
Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a preventive measure in the form of a 3 million hryvnia bail on Supreme Court Judge Zhanna Yelenina. She is suspected of receiving an illegal benefit of $50,000 for issuing a court ruling in favor of Konstantin Zhevago, owner of the “Finance and Credit” group, regarding shares in the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant.
Former Supreme Court Chairman Vsevolod Knyazev, several years after his high-profile arrest, admitted that he had received an illegal benefit from businessman Konstantin Zhevago and testified against a number of judges, which dramatically changed the course of one of the most high-profile anti-corruption cases in Ukraine in recent years.
