The court confirmed the validity of the SBI suspicion of high treason to the current judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv

According to the materials of the investigation of the SBI, the court has chosen a preventive measure to a judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv in the form of a bail of 1 million hryvnias. In this way, the judge confirmed the validity of the SBI's suspicion of high treason committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The preventive measures in the form of detention of the former President and Prime Minister of Ukraine were also chosen.

It should be reminded, that the employees of the SBI under the procedural guidance of the Office of the Prosecutor General have served notifications of suspicion to the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv and to the former top officials of the state.

It was established, that in 2011 the aggressor country involved in subversive activities against Ukraine current at that time the President of Ukraine, Prime Minister of Ukraine and Judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv, as well as the heads of various parts of the judicial system.

The leadership of the russian federation has developed a plan according to which the defense capability and armed forces of the aggressor would be financed from the State Budget of Ukraine under the pretext of implementing the decision of the Economic Court of Kyiv on the repayment of non-existent debt.

For that purpose, in 2011, the Minister of Defense of the russian federation sent to the leadership of Ukraine a letter requesting the assistance in repaying the debt of one of the economic entities in the amount of USD 405.5 million for natural gas, that was supplied in 1996-1997.

Our state had nothing to do with the debt of a commercial enterprise and could not be responsible for it. However, the former leadership of the country in 2011 began to emphasize in the media that Ukraine should repay that amount to the ministry of defense of the russian federation. In addition, a letter was prepared to the Security Service of Ukraine with a request to prosecute the head of the business entity for allegedly shifting that debt to the state.

Trying to artificially create grounds for direct financing of the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation at the expense of the Ukrainian state budget, high-ranking officials engage the leadership of the judicial system and the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv for recover USD 405.5 million in favor of the russian federation based of the unlawful court decision.

According to the scheme developed by the defendants, in August 2012, the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation filed a claim to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the Economic Court of Kyiv to recover more than 3 billion hryvnias from the state budget.

The russians hoped that in 2004, the Prime Minister and later the President of Ukraine, promised to assist them in the execution of those judgments. However, due to the lack of contractual relations between the plaintiff and the defendant, the judge had to refuse to open the proceeding.

Moreover, the ministry of defense of the russian federation did not add to the claim any evidence to prove why Ukraine should pay that debt. However, the judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv issued an illegal decision and transferred the obligation to collect and provide evidence in the case to the defendant.

According to that decision, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine provided copies of correspondence between the leaders of the governments of Ukraine and the russian federation in 1996. They were dated before the entity concluded an agreement on which the debt arose, so those letters could not be as evidence of both the existence of the debt and its transfer to Ukraine. In addition, the originals of those letters had never existed, but the court ignored that fact.

Despite the expiration of the statute of limitations and the absence of state guarantees for the debts of the enterprise, as well as the absence of evidence of the existence in 2012 of the company's debt under the contracts of 1996-1997, the judge satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Defense of the russian federation and decided to recover from any account of the State Budget of Ukraine more than UAH 3.1 billion in favor of the russian federation.

In pursuance of that illegal court decision in favor of the russian federation, part of the money was recovered from Ukraine. After the beginning of the russian aggression against our country and the change of the state leadership, another judge of the Economic Court canceled that illegal decision in 2014, but the money unreasonably seized in the interests of russia was not returned. According to the investigation, those funds were used to finance the so-called «special military operation».

The actions of the suspects are qualified under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as high treason committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons.

The sanction of the Articles provides for imprisonment for up to 15 years.