Workers of the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) arrested Artur Emelyanov, former deputy president of the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine, who, according to the Channel 24 portal, together with other judges organized a "business" based on court decisions.
The organizer of the scheme was Viktor Tatykov, the former president of the Higher Commercial Court of Ukraine, who illegally controlled the distribution of cases and assigned them exclusively to "his" judges.
Artur Emeljanov, who now works as a lawyer, is known to the Montenegrin public for the lawsuit that his ex-wife Svitlana Yemeljanova filed against Zapad banka doo Podgorica in 2017, accusing the bank's leaders, Oleksandr Kuperman and Dmitri Likhota, of abusing their official position and trust, the company "Svitland Global FZE" caused damage of 1.502.524,92 euros in favor of the company "Ofimmo GMBH".
A well-informed source of "Vijesti" states that Emeljanov, although he did not formally appear in this case, was considered a very influential "man from the shadows". He points out that the impression was created that the key role is played by Artur and not by his ex-wife Svitlana. He attended and actively participated in all the meetings and conversations that preceded the filing of the indictment and the trial, which ended only in September of this year with an acquittal.
The Appellate Court of Montenegro, after a public session of the council, issued a verdict on September 11, 2024, rejecting as unfounded the appeal of the attorney of the injured party as the plaintiff of the company "Svitland Global FZE" and confirmed the verdict of the High Court in Podgorica.
Thus, the verdict became legally binding by which the defendants Oleksandar Kuperman and Dmitri Likhota were acquitted of the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations as co-perpetrators and the legal entity "Zapad banka" AD Podgorica of the criminal offense of abuse of position in business operations.
It was assessed that it was not proven that Kuperman and Likhota committed the criminal acts charged in the indictment. The company "Svitland Global FZE" damaged by the same indictment was referred to litigation in order to realize a property legal claim.
Previously, in the course of the proceedings, the previous representative of the prosecution - the special prosecutor, gave up the accusation, and the injured company continued the prosecution, sticking to the indictment previously submitted by the Special State Prosecutor's Office.
In the decision-making process on the appeal of the injured party as a plaintiff, the Appellate Court of Montenegro assessed that the first-instance court did not commit significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure referred to in the appeal. In the opinion of this court, the first-instance verdict is clear and comprehensible in everything, and the first-instance court, based on the evidence presented at the main trial and their comprehensive assessment, both individually and in their mutual relationship, correctly established the decisive facts on which it based its conclusions that it was not proven that the accused committed the criminal acts charged against them, for which he gave clear and valid reasons which this court accepted in full.
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