Is Themis on the side of criminals? The authority of Zhuravel, who attacked the police with a weapon, was released

Well-known crime boss Viktor Zhuravel (Vikha), who was detained in Brovary for attacking police officers , was released on bail.

Thus, on May 10, during the court hearing to select a preventive measure for Zhuravlya, the prosecutor’s office insisted on detention during the investigation without the right to pay bail.

But for the judge of the Brovary City District Court of the Kyiv Region, Alexander Skripka, none of the prosecutors’ arguments seemed serious. After a six-hour meeting, he finally decided that detention without bail was too strict for a scandalous criminal. Therefore, the court sentenced him to two months in custody - until July 8. At the same time, the amount of bail was only 242 thousand hryvnia.

According to our source in the prosecutor's office, this amount of bail shocked everyone, because the suspect has the opportunity to pay it right away. And law enforcement officers have no doubt that Viktor Zhuravel can hinder the investigation and put pressure on witnesses.

This decision of the judge caused considerable outrage on social networks. Users ask whether the court is definitely “Brovarsky or maybe Baryshevsky????” Others write that for an “armed baron” this amount is too meager. Others write that this is “surprising and you can immediately imprison the judge” and “money decides everything.”

Judge Alexander Skrypka, who made the scandalous decision, previously worked in the Zhytomyr District Court. But several years ago he was transferred to Brovary by order of the High Council of Justice dated June 3, 2021.

As Slidstvo.info wrote, judge of the Zhytomyr District Court and candidate for the High Anti-Corruption Court Alexander Skrypka did not indicate a single residence near his place of work . Apparently, to get to work, the judge travels almost two hundred kilometers every day. After all, the only declared housing that belongs to a man is a house in a village in the Kiev region.