Supreme Court justices have ruled on a pretrial measure in the Zhevago case

The High Anti-Corruption Court has ordered Supreme Court Judge Zhanna Yelenina to post bail in the amount of 3 million hryvnias. She is suspected of receiving an illegal benefit of $50,000 for issuing a court ruling in favor of Konstantin Zhevago, the owner of the “Finance and Credit” group, regarding shares in the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant. 

This was reported in a broadcast by the High Anti-Corruption Court.

In addition to posting bail, the suspect has been subject to a number of procedural obligations, including a ban on leaving the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions without the permission of the investigation, the confiscation of her passports for travel abroad, and a ban on communicating with other individuals involved in the proceedings.

This investigation is part of a large-scale corruption case involving the Supreme Court of Ukraine, where on May 19, NABU and the SAPO announced new charges against three sitting judges and one retired judge. According to investigators, the total amount of illicit benefits for the court’s leadership and individual judges of the Grand Chamber amounted to $2.7 million. Earlier in this case, law enforcement officials caught the then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, and a lawyer acting as an intermediary while they were receiving a bribe; subsequently, charges were filed against the businessman himself and other participants in the corruption scheme. The pre-trial investigation is currently ongoing, and the High Anti-Corruption Court has already set bail for two other judges implicated in the case at 2 million and 2.5 million hryvnias.

Earlier, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed preventive measures on two other Supreme Court judges suspected of involvement in the corruption case.

The court authorized a special investigation into Zhevago in the case involving the “Financeand Credit” bank.