The court abolished decision of the SAPO regarding closure of General Tkachuk’s case

The court abolished decision of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office to close a criminal proceeding on alleged illicit enrichment and declaration of false information by Chief of National Land Forces Academy, Lieutenant-General Pavlo Tkachuk.

This decision was made on August 29, by a panel of judges of Kyiv Court of Appeal, writes in Facebook Yevheniya Motorevska, journalist of Slidstvo.info, according to Slovo i Dilo.

“The Court of Appeal admitted that the SAPO illegally closed proceeding regarding enrichment of Chief of National Land Forces Academy of Ukraine,” she wrote.

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Background information:

Journalists-investigators found undeclared elite houses and Lexus of Tkachuk. The property was registered on Tkachuk’s mother-in-law, 88-year-old pensioner, and not included to the declaration. NABU detectives began investigating these facts of false statements in the declaration and illicit enrichment. But instead of figuring out the origin of money and property that retired mother-in-law could not obviously afford, and who died last year, SAPO prosecutors closed the case.

The reason for the closure was lack of information about the origin of funds. SAPO prosecutors accepted the word of Tkachuk and his family members who said that mother-in-law had earned everything herself. And since she died, she cannot prove it by herself.

Moreover, prosecutors came to the conclusion that Tkachuk does not use elite house, where he lives with his family, as on  December 31, 2015 he was not seen in it, due to being on vacation.