“The former judge of the Court of Appeal Igor Palenik, who was recently released by the High Council of Justice, tried to cross the border of Ukraine. According to the journalists of the Judicial Reporter, Palenik planned to leave with his granddaughter to Croatia, explaining it with the need for “rehabilitation” after stress related to criminal prosecution. However, the Supreme Anti -Corruption Court did not allow him to leave the country by recognizing these arguments insufficient to”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
The former judge of the Court of Appeal Igor Palenik, who was recently released by the High Council of Justice, tried to cross the border of Ukraine.
According to the journalists of the Judicial Reporter, Palenik planned to leave with his granddaughter to Croatia, explaining it with the need for “rehabilitation” after stress related to criminal prosecution.
However, the Supreme Anti -Corruption Court did not allow him to leave the country, recognizing these arguments insufficient to travel outside Ukraine.
Igor Palenik is suspected of involvement in a large -scale corruption scheme together with three other judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeal – Vyacheslav Dzhubin, Yuri Slick and Viktor Glinyany.
According to the investigation, the judges received $ 35,000 of the wrongful benefit for the abolition of property arrest in the case of the former head “Motor Sich” Vyacheslav Boguslaev.
The money was distributed among the participants of the scheme: the Palenik received from Dzubin $ 25 thousand in the box from under the whiskey, after which he handed over part of the amount to colleagues, masking the bills in a pack of coffee and advertising brochure.
During searches from the defendants of the case, NABU detectives were seized money that was transferred as a bribe: Dzubin found $ 10,000, Palenik – all $ 25,000, and plums and clay – $ 8,300.
The investigation believes that Palenik specifically replaced the notes before transferring colleagues to complicate their tracking.
The High Council of Justice has granted permission to keep all four judges in custody. For Palenik and Dzubin, the court identified a pre -trial detention measure with an alternative to bail of UAH 4 million.
After making the funds, the Palenik came out of the pre -trial detention center, but was obliged to wear an electronic bracelet, to hand over passports and not to leave Kiev and the area without the permission of the investigator.
On March 27, 2025, the High Council of Justice officially dismissed Igor Palenik from the position of a judge for a “significant disciplinary misconduct”, which, according to the Constitution of Ukraine, is a ground for deprivation of judicial powers.
This decision was made after considering the submission of the Second Disciplinary Chamber of the GRP, which recognized the actions of the Palenik incompatible with the status of a judge.
We will remind, after the liquidation in 2022 of the corrupt district administrative court of Kyiv (OASK) its chairman Pavel Vovk until March 2025 continued to receive payments from the state.
We also reported that in Ukraine the richest pensioner was the Judge of the CCU retired Natalia Shaptala. It receives UAH 390 thousand 184 from PFU monthly.
