Unreformed courts protect corrupt officials
A court in Irpen, near Kyiv, has acquitted the former rector of the national tax service university Petro Melnyk, lifting the arrest on his property, lawmaker Iryna Suslova told Tyzhden July 9.
“What happened in the Irpen court is another defeat of the Orange revolution,” the lawmaker commented.
Melnyk’s arrested property included flats, houses, land sites in Kyiv, Irpen and Ivano-Frankivsk, she said.
Investigators found one billion of Zimbabwe dollars in Melnyk’s apartment.
Suslova expects the prosecution will protest the court decision.
Melnyk was arrested on July 27, 2013 receiving a bribe. He was put under home arrest but fled to Belarus.
Melnyk wants to be reinstated as rector of the tax service academy.