NABU and SAPO reported retired judge and current member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges Volodymyr Luhansky on suspicion of embezzlement of state funds in the amount of over half a million hryvnias.
In October 2024, the HQCJ established a commission to verify the integrity of retired judge and member of the HQCJ, Volodymyr Luhansky. The basis for this decision of the HQCJ was the appeal of the public organization "Anti-Corruption Action Center" dated September 10, 2024 regarding Volodymyr Luhansky.
Public activists reported to the Commission that from April 2015 to September 2020, Volodymyr Luhanskyi, in their opinion, unjustifiably received at least 160 hryvnias for having a PhD (074% of a judge's official salary).
According to the public's conclusions, Volodymyr Luhanskyi, who at the time was a judge and chairman of the Severodonetsk City Court of the Luhansk region, had no right to receive the specified money.
As reported by NABU, according to the investigation, the suspect, while holding the position of judge, used his "doctorate degree" as a pretext for accruing a 15% salary and pension bonus.
He received it back in 2011 in violation of the procedure, since no university at that time had the right to award such a degree, and a corresponding non-state diploma could not serve as the basis for any additional payments.
As a result, since 2015, the suspect has illegally received funds from the state budget in the amount of over 576 thousand UAH.
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