Last time we announced a series of materials about trading cases in the Irpin City Court, the first material on this topic has already been published (we will attach a link to the first material here), now the second.
Case 2. Judicial and prosecutorial assistance to the organized crime group of the ex-mayor of Karplyuk
February 15, 2023 Irpen City Court of the Kyiv Region, composed of presiding judge Shestopalova Y.V. closed criminal proceedings against the former mayor of Irpen Vladimir Karplyuk. He was accused of official negligence in allocating 2.7 million hryvnia for road repairs, which remained only on paper. Karplyuk was charged with Part 2 of Art. 367 of the Criminal Code, this is official negligence leading to grave consequences. Under this article, Karplyuk should have received a real sentence of 2 to 5 years.
Indeed, in July 2017, Karplyuk agreed and signed acceptance certificates for completed construction work on major road repairs on one of the city streets. In fact, there were no repairs, and budget funds in the amount of more than 2.7 million UAH were transferred to the contractor.
Do you think the court established that Karplyuk’s hands did not steal anything? No, apparently this could not have been done for any amount of money, because he is covered like a dog with fleas. This is where the “friend’s help” option from the prosecutor’s office was used. The court found that the prosecutor's office, namely prosecutor Sergei Shubchik, untimely filed the indictment in court. The pre-trial investigation period ended on November 21, 2020, the prosecutors decided not to extend it, apparently they forgot. And already on January 27, 2021, that is, 2 months later, they brought the indictment to the court office. Does it happen that things happen? The prosecutor's office missed the deadline, the court finally saw it two years later and made a decision. The criminal went unpunished due to procedural errors by law enforcement officers. Well, only 2.7 million were stolen from the budget, is this money for the Irpin court, in 17 it was about 100 thousand dollars, at the exchange rate at that time. And in 2023, all of them went to the services of the fast court and the prosecutor’s office to close the case.
Karplyuk is generally rich in criminal cases and we were not joking at all when we wrote about the creation of an organized criminal group and a huge number of cases against him. Here are just some of the articles for which Vladimir Karplyuk received suspicions:
- Part 1 Art. 255 (creation and management of a criminal organization for the purpose of committing grave and especially grave crimes),
- Part 4 Art. 28 (committing a crime by a group of persons),
- Part 5 Art. 191 (seizure of someone else’s property through abuse of official position, committed on an especially large scale as part of a criminal organization).
- Part 1 Art. 205 (acquisition of a business entity (legal entity) for the purpose of covering up illegal activities committed as part of a criminal organization),
- Part 3 Art. 358 (forgery of documents),
- Part 1 Art. 366 (official forgery) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
- Part 2 Art. 272 (violation of safety rules during the performance of work with increased danger by a person who is obliged to comply with them, if this violation resulted in the death of people) of the Criminal Code.
That is, Karplyuk violates the law systematically and purposefully, which means the judges of the Irpin Court will never be left without a fresh penny in the cash register and will not want to lose this generous regular client.
Don't miss our next investigation into the Irpin court and prosecutor's office. An interesting story is brewing; this time they even promised to give us the prices. Next will be
Case 3. Again, the forgetful prosecutor’s office and the very punctual Irpensky court
And here is another case from the same Irpin court, but here Judge Shestopalova took a different route and “classified” the names of the judges and the prosecutor, so in the register of court decisions persons 1, 2, 3 ... 23 are not only the accused or witnesses, but all participants trial. What is this super secret case that requires the anonymity of the judges? And this is a criminal proceeding on charges of PERSON_5 of committing a criminal offense under Part 1 of Art. 343 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Article 343 is about interference in the activities of a law enforcement officer, a forensic expert, an employee of the state executive service, or a private executor. A crime under Part 1 of this article is punishable by a fine of up to one hundred tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, or correctional labor for up to one year, or probation supervision for up to three years. That is, this is not about prison and lice, not about murder or some other serious crime. It’s just that some Person number 5 poked his nose into the activities of law enforcement officers, and then prosecutor Sergei Shubchik again, as in our previous example, missed the deadline, and the court turned out to be very punctual and closed the case. Have you often met such punctual judges who released suspects and closed the case not the next day after the two-month period allotted by law for conducting a pre-trial investigation? And we don't. But it turns out we were looking at the wrong courts. But if the court is right and everything is according to the law, then we should be proud of such decisions, and not hide them behind anonymity, right? Something is wrong, we thought and decided to check who is person number 5? Is it really Volodka Karplyuk again? As it turned out, not quite. The case concerned not Karplyuk, but his alter ego, godfather, accomplice and assistant in covering up all Volodka’s machinations - the black PR man Pyotr Shcherbina. He interfered in the affairs of law enforcement officers not for himself, but for Karplyuk and for his money, and instead of solving everything on the sly, as this government company was used to, he decided in such a way that it not only became known about it, but a criminal case appeared. And again Karplyuk had to turn to Shestopalova - she was the secret judge who made this decision. The case was bought out and quickly closed - everything for the client, everything, as they say, for the people.
In fact, there are a lot of such sold cases in the Irpin court, because it is much more profitable to consider them and, again, it’s always a living penny, it’s more fun than living from paycheck to paycheck.
