The Supreme Court leaves the absolutory sentence on the EQUITY Client without changes

On October 11^th, 2018 the Panel of judges of the first court chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court has left without changes the verdict of the Desnianskyi district court of Kyiv as of 08.09.2016 and the decision of the Court of Appeal of Kyiv as of 01.11.2017 regarding the recognition of the EQUITY Client as innocent according to p. 2 of art.368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Thus, the Main Directorate of the Security Police of Ukraine in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast and the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office issued a version by which the Company Client, as an official, received twice an unlawful benefit for a possible evasion of certain service actions by him. Due to the solid position of the EQUITY partners - lawyers Oleksandr Lysak, Taras Poshyvanуuk and Vуacheslav Krahlevych and their active participation in all stages of the hearing of the case, the judgment of the Desnianskyi district court found that the relevant actions of the applicant in the case were provocative, and the evidences given in the case, were received as a result of provocation only.

As a consequence, these very conditions have caused the finding of the EQUITY Client as not guilty and his acquittance for failure of evidence for commission of a crime.

The sentence of the Desnianskyi district court has successfully passed the appeal and cassation considerations and remains unchanged until now. The Panel of judges of the first court chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court has dismissed the Cassation appeal of the prosecutor.