The higher anti-corruption court passed a verdict against the former head of the State Judicial Administration, sentencing him to three years in prison. About this reported press service of the National Anti-corruption Bureau.
On August 6, 2025, the panel of judges of the State Administrative Court found the former official guilty of the crime provided for in part 2 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. In addition to the main punishment, he is prohibited from holding positions in state and local self-government bodies for three years.
A preventive measure in the form of bail in the amount of 575,320 hryvnias continues to apply until the verdict becomes effective. The court also imposed procedural obligations on the convict: not to leave the borders of Kyiv and Kyiv region without the permission of the court and to submit documents for traveling abroad to the relevant state body.
This sentence can be appealed within 30 days from the moment of its pronouncement by submitting an appeal to the Appeals Chamber of the VACS. NABU does not officially disclose the name of the convict, however, for information Transparency International Ukraine, it is about Oleksiy Salnikov.
The prosecution asked for a sentence of seven years in prison with confiscation of all property, as well as deprivation of the rank of public servant for inciting bribery and fraud. The higher anti-corruption court acquitted him of fraud charges.
For their part, the defenders asked the court to fully acquit Salnikov. They insisted that the initiator of all actions in the case was the applicant, and Salnikov himself did not persuade or incite the granting of an unlawful benefit.
