Appeal Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld an acquittal of Volodymyr Omelyan!

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Appeal Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld an acquittal of Volodymyr Omelyan - Ukrainian ex-Minister of Infrastructure!

We should recall that according to the Indictment from 06.11.2020, Volodymyr Omelyan was accused in committing a crime under paragraph 2 of Article 211 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. According to the indictment, Volodymyr Omelyan issued a regulatory legal act that reduced state budget revenues contrary to the law, and the subject of such actions were budgetary funds on an especially large scale.

In October 2021 Ex-Minister was acquitted by High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine in connection with the lack of mandatory elements of the corpus delicti, in particular: the object of the crime, the objective and subjective sides of the corpus delicti.

On June 6 Appeal Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court left the acquittal unchanged.

The trial lasted about a year and became one of the most high-profile in Ukraine. Decision of the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine is one of the first acquittals among cases of national importance.

The EQUITY team made up of partners Olexandr Lysak, Taras Poshyvanyuk and senior associate Maksym Saliy, has been working on the case.