The High Anti-Corruption Court has received 20 million hryvnias in bail for the former head of the Cassation Economic Court within the Supreme Court, Bohdan Lviv. The court’s press service confirmed the receipt of funds into the institution’s account.
This is reported by Kyiv24
Restrictions for the suspect and case details
The head of the communications department of the High Anti-Corruption Court, Olesya Chemeris, reported that the bail has already been paid, and a number of restrictions have been imposed on Bohdan Lviv. In particular, he is prohibited from changing his place of residence or work without notification, communicating with certain individuals regarding the circumstances of the case, must surrender his foreign passports for safekeeping, and wear an electronic bracelet. The former judge must also appear at every court summons.
On October 20, the investigating judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court made a decision to change the preventive measure for the former deputy head of the Supreme Court, reducing the bail amount from over 302 million to 20 million hryvnias. The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced its intention to appeal this decision. Although the suspect’s name was not officially disclosed, the circumstances of the case pointed specifically to Bohdan Lviv.
Suspicion of embezzlement and citizenship issues
Bohdan Lviv is suspected of facilitating the embezzlement of the Ukrainian portion of the oil product pipeline “Samara – Western Direction,” which was state-owned through the State Property Fund. The estimated damage to the state is approximately 1.4 billion hryvnias, according to investigators.
On October 5, 2022, the then head of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, signed an order for Lviv’s dismissal from the Supreme Court based on a letter from the Security Service of Ukraine regarding his possession of Russian Federation citizenship.
Earlier, on September 15, 2022, journalists from the program “Schemes” published an investigation titled “Ukrainian Judge with a Russian Passport,” in which they presented evidence that Bohdan Lviv obtained a Russian passport as early as 1999 and renewed the document in Moscow in 2012 while working as a judge in Ukraine.
After the investigation was made public, Judge Lviv acknowledged that there are records of his citizenship in Russian registries but called it a “high-quality forgery” aimed at “destabilizing the work of the judicial system of Ukraine.”
In response, the journalists from “Schemes” provided additional evidence and confirmed the preliminary conclusions of the investigation, refuting Lviv’s claims of forgery.