On July 9, 2025, in the city of Dnipro, prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General, together with the Main Investigative Department of the National Police of Ukraine, under the operational support of the Department of Criminal Investigation of the National Police of Ukraine, uncovered and notified a lawyer of suspicion who attempted to resolve issues regarding the avoidance of criminal liability for his client and related individuals for committing a number of serious and particularly serious criminal offenses, as well as improving their procedural status by changing the legal qualification of the incriminated actions to softer ones, closing criminal proceedings, applying lesser penalties to the suspects, and so on.

For resolving these issues, the lawyer planned to transfer an unlawful benefit to authorized officials in the total amount of 1 million dollars.

Law enforcement documented the fact of the lawyer transferring part of the unlawful benefit in the amount of 100 thousand dollars.

The actions of the lawyer were qualified under part 3 of Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely the provision of an unlawful benefit for actions committed by a public official in a responsible position in the interests of third parties, using their official position, committed by a group of individuals in collusion.

For the committed act, the lawyer and his accomplice face punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 4 to 8 years with confiscation of property.

The defendant himself has connections with criminal circles and influence over them at the local level (one of the regional centers of Ukraine).

His son is also a lawyer, another lawyer in this story. He offered 100 thousand dollars for the intentional murder of key witnesses in the criminal proceedings against his father.

Law enforcement documented the fact of the son of the suspect transferring part of the funds for preparing to commit the specified crime in the amount of 11 thousand dollars.

Prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General have notified the specified individual of suspicion in the manner provided by the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine under part 1 of Article 14, subparagraphs 1, 5, 6, 11, 12 of part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

For committing this crime, punishment is provided in the form of imprisonment for a term of 10 to 15 years or life imprisonment, with confiscation of property.

Currently, the pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

Note: according to Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, a person is considered innocent of committing a crime and cannot be subjected to criminal punishment until their guilt is proven in a lawful manner and established by a guilty verdict of the court.