A court in the Kyiv oblast has acquitted Petro Melnyk, the former Head of Ukraine’s National Tax Service University, finding “no proof of a crime” in Melnyk’s sale of four buildings belonging to the university to a company founded by his wife, son and father-in-law. This is the second time that Melnyk has been acquitted on separate corruption charges, though the first acquittal was later revoked by another court. Had Melnyk been convicted this time, he would have faced up to 12 years’ imprisonment.
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A statue of the Greek goddess of justice Themis near the building of the court in Kyiv.
