UAH 215,000 bail: the Higher Anti-Corruption Court overturned the arrest of the judge of the Poltava District Court

Sergiy Kononenko, a judge from the Leninsky District Court in Poltava, has been released from custody. The High Anti-Corruption Court decided to replace his detention with a bail of 215,000 hryvnias and obligated the accused to surrender his foreign passport and wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. This information is available in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.

To recap, Sergiy Kononenko was detained in August 2017. The investigation alleges that the judge received bribes from a representative in two different civil cases in exchange for issuing judgments in favor of the plaintiffs.

After his arrest, no preventive measures were taken, and he was suspended from his position after a month. In December 2017, the NABU transferred the corruption case to the Krasnograd District Court in the Kharkiv region, and in March 2018, Kononenko received a personal obligation as a preventive measure.

In September 2019, the criminal case was transferred to the High Anti-Corruption Court for consideration. In August of last year, Sergiy Kononenko was sentenced to seven years in prison with a three-year ban on holding organizational and managerial positions. He was also stripped of his major justice rank and had his property confiscated. However, on May 26, the Appellate Chamber of the court overturned the verdict and ordered a new trial in the first instance.

Following the decision of the Appellate Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court, the accused was remanded in custody for two months, and Sergiy Kononenko was held in the Kyiv Pretrial Detention Center. At the beginning of June, the defendant's lawyer submitted a motion for a change in the preventive measure, which was subsequently replaced with bail.