It was previously reported that Oleksiy Sudak, head of the Tarutino branch of the Artsyz United Tax Inspectorate (Odesa Oblast), received a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (bribery on an especially large scale) and was remanded in custody. However, his time in pretrial detention was short: he was immediately released after paying bail of 413,400 hryvnias.
Remarkably, the defendant did not deny receiving a large sum of money, either in court or in front of reporters. However, he claimed he took the money not for himself, but for the needs of his department: he allegedly planned to use it to purchase 1,000 envelopes and mail them to recipients for work-related matters. The Primorsky Court did not find the defendant's testimony convincing enough and, by its decision, suspended the corrupt official from his position for a preliminary period of two months.
However, Sudak's lawyer filed an appeal, which was heard by three judges (Vadim Pribilov, Albina Kadegrob, and Ruslan Kotelevsky), who had previously come under scrutiny for their corrupt practices. Perhaps precisely because this triumvirate presided over the case, Sudak's appeal was granted, with the ruling that the defendant "...poses no danger to the investigation, and his removal from office would adversely affect the support of his pregnant wife and young child..."
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