In Lviv Region, a lawyer and her accomplice will be prosecuted for influence peddling.
As law enforcement officers established, the perpetrators demanded and received an undue advantage of 6,700 dollars from a client, the father of a young girl. This was done to influence city council officials to make a decision about conducting an assessment of living conditions and issuing certificates regarding the daughter’s residence with the father and regarding his independent upbringing and maintenance of the child.
The documents obtained from city council officials were planned by the wrongdoer to be attached to the claim to influence a judge’s positive decision in favor of her client regarding the determination of the place of residence for his minor daughter with her father. For this purpose, the lawyer even “arranged” for the re-registration of the client’s wife’s residence (the mother of the girl) at the “required” address.
The money from the client was obtained by the perpetrators in two installments – 1,700 dollars and 5,000 dollars, which were later split between them.
The accused – a lawyer, a 45-year-old resident of Truskavets, and her accomplice – a 40-year-old resident of one of the villages in the Drohobych district, were exposed by investigators of the Department for Investigating Criminal Proceedings Involving Children of the Investigative Unit of the Lviv region police, in collaboration with operatives of the Security Service of Ukraine’s Office in Lviv region, under the procedural guidance of Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings, initiated under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 369-2 (Influence Peddling) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, has been completed. The indictment has been sent for court review. The article’s sanction provides for a penalty – a fine ranging from two thousand to five thousand five hundred non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens or imprisonment for a term of two to five years.