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The appellate panel of the Higher Anti-Corruption Court (VAKS) issued a ruling upholding the verdict against Lyudmyla Marchenko, a member of parliament from the “Servant of the People” faction. The court confirmed the sentence of two years’ imprisonment. The crime involved an attempt to transfer cash, classified as a bribe, over a fence.
As the verdict has entered into legal force, Marchenko will lose her parliamentary mandate.
During the pronouncement of the verdict, the positions of the two defendants differed significantly. Marchenko did not admit her guilt and, in her final statement, asked the court to acquit her.
Her assistant, Anastasiia Kolesnyk, conversely, admitted her guilt. She expressed sincere remorse and asked the court to give her a chance to reform. Taking this into account, the court mitigated Kolesnyk’s punishment: instead of actual imprisonment, she was sentenced to a fine of 92,500 hryvnia.
This case is the third recent instance in which an incumbent member of parliament received an actual prison sentence under VAKS rulings.
Previously, the court sentenced MPs Ihor Hunko and Oleksandr Yurchenko. Hunko was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, while Yurchenko received nine years.
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