in vrp helped knyazev not to answer for a multimillion-dollar bribe. the record holder simply for the first closure of cases. congratulations. you are watching judicial review. i am tatyana shustrova. for four years of work, the higher anti-corruption court has already passed more than 20 verdicts in corruption cases against ukrainian judges. almost all were accusatory. however, many high-profile cases involving multimillion-dollar bribes and abuses have not yet been completed. moreover, the servants of themis, who have committed serious crimes and are involved in high-profile cases, have not been dismissed from their positions for years. they are even in the pre-trial detention center continue to receive hundreds of thousands of salaries every month, without carrying out judicial proceedings, the supreme council of justice recently released the ex-head of the supreme court vsevolod knyaz, who is suspected of corruption, not for the largest multimillion-dollar bribe in history, but for the extremely low price of the apartment he rented in kyiv.

today we will tell you why it is so difficult to bring the most corrupt judges to justice. and first to the news. the higher anti-corruption court stopped the hearing of the case of the judge of the primorsky district court of odesa i. lee lonskyi. he mobilized to the ranks of the armed forces forces of ukraine. other judges of the same court charge ilya lonskyi with an attempt to obtain an illegal benefit for making a positive decision in an administrative case, as well as for possessing part of a bribe. by way of deception , the national anti-corruption bureau of ukraine published an excerpt from the conversation of the participants at the time of the transfer of the illegal benefit. damn, i'm somehow so sorry in general, to be honest, all the work, i run for someone, i sit damn it myself. and you don't have anyone, right? yes, i have nothing interesting. in the office of judge ilya lonsky searches were conducted, as a result of which the security forces found a bribe. interestingly, after that, lonsky not only pleaded not guilty, but also filed a complaint with the supreme council of justice. the law enforcement officers put pressure on

him and interfere in the activities of the judge. lontsky was informed of the suspicion of corruption, but now that the judge has been mobilized to the zsu, the case has been stopped. note that this is a very popular scheme among the servants of themis in an effort to avoid responsibility. in fact, he is not the only one, and he is not the first, and it is possible he is not even the last one to do this, because there are other judges who are also suspected of committing other crimes, including corruption. who also mobilized and in this way are obviously trying to wash their clothes, hang out somewhere, somewhere, i don’t know, lord, forgive me for taking pictures with a machine gun or in a pixel, and then tell what heroes they are, how they defended ukraine, and therefore they should write off all the crimes they committed before that is a very dangerous story, a member of the high qualification commission of judges volodymyr luhansky of ukraine turned out to be a fake doctor of philosophy in the field of law, the center of resistance. of corruption sent a request to

the ministry of education and science of ukraine regarding whether luhanskyi has a doctor of philosophy or candidate of science degree. it turned out that none of them is owned by a high-ranking member of the commission. volodymyr luhanskyi is a former judge of the severodonetsk city court and a military serviceman. during his participation in the competition for the position of a member of the central committee of the russian federation, we emphasized his alleged dishonesty and the fortune of a dubious origin. during interviews with members of the tvrp competition commission. volodymyr luhanskyi stated that he defended his thesis at the international academy of personnel management in 2011, but at that time this educational institution was not one of the subjects for issuing phd diplomas, moreover, only in september 2014 the verkhovna rada adopted changes that equated the title of candidate of sciences with the scientific degree of doctor of philosophy. luhansky could not explain how it happened, nor could he remember the name of the specialty for which he on... in a scientific dissertation. in what

specialty did you defend yourself? the name of the specialty, clearly. i defended myself. my topic was article 382, ​​which is criminal liability for failure to comply with a court decision, i remember. well, i haven't seen my diploma for a long time, i took off photocopies, i just don't remember. it should be noted that it may not only be a matter of lying when taking office, but also... stealing from the state, since judges and military personnel receive a supplement to their official salary for having a scientific degree, however, whether volodymyr luhanskyi received such additional payment when he worked as a judge and served is still unknown. the supreme council of justice finally dismissed the judge of the makariv district court, oleksiy tandyr, and the judge of the cassation administrative court, part of the supreme court, vsevolod knyaz. themis employees have been dismissed for committing... a serious

disciplinary offence. we will remind, last year oleksiy tandyr, in a state of alcoholic intoxication , beat to death a soldier of the national guard, vadym bondarenko. all volado knyazev is suspected of obtaining a record. a bribe almost 3 million dollars, however, knyaz was released not because of the biggest corruption in the history of the judicial system, but because of the undervalued value of the rented apartment. the supreme council of justice decided to dismiss knyazev vsevolod serhiyovych from the post of judge of the cassation administrative court within the supreme court on the basis of clause three of part six of article 126 of the constitution of ukraine. instead, a complaint to the vrp was filed last year by the dere foundation, which was directly related to the bribe and should have ended. the prince was never considered. working on a bribery complaint ex-chairman of the supreme court was assigned to serhiy burlakov, a member of the supreme council of justice, a figure in our investigations, he, in turn, was in no hurry. the record holder is simply for, firstly, closing cases, and secondly,

for not holding judges accountable where they should be held accountable. according to experts, burlakov is considered a creature of borys gulka, the head of the cassation civil court in the composition. of the supreme court, one of the most influential judges and a member of the so-called judicial mafia, which destroyed the judicial system all these years of ukraine. since serhii burlakov himself currently holds an influential position in the supreme administrative court, he has all the leverage to manipulate the handling of complaints against judges. so, in order to dismiss the prince from his post, while not investigating the facts of global corruption , a completely different, much smaller and actually artificial case was initiated in the supreme court. in december 2023. acts of corruption were reported to the pechersk district court of kyiv, instead, knyazum accepted an offer to rent housing for uah 1.00 per month and systematically used the received gift. thus, during the years of lease of the princes saved almost uah 1 million. the court prosecuted

him for this administrative offense and imposed a fine of uah 2,500. information about non-compliance with anti-corruption legislation was also transferred to the supreme council of justice and instead. in order to reinforce the corrupt history of the prince with a bribe, the vrp actually undertook to consider only the misdemeanor of renting an apartment. council member serhiy burlakov dragged out the consideration of the bribery complaint in the supreme court so much that knyazum was eventually released only on the grounds of low rent. i'm sorry, the circular bailout has already had enough, it has been going on for years, decades, and citizens are suffering, ukraine is suffering. the supreme council of justice never managed to establish justice. at the same time , the case about the alleged corruption crime, in which, in addition to the prince , the vast majority of the members of the grand chamber of the supreme court could have been involved, is losing its relevance. we know that at least 13 judges were there in the collegium in the case where the prince accepted a bribe. and with great

probability, many facts in that case indicate that this bribe could to be appointed not only to the prince, but also to some other judges. from the large chamber, that is , the key conclusion, the highest judicial instance, the supreme court in our country, urgently needs its cleansing. vsebolot knyazum, as a result of the vrp's decision, promised to appeal his dismissal in court, and it will only be about the circumstances of the housing lease. meanwhile, the story of the largest bribery in the judicial system, thanks to such members of the vrp as serhiy burlakov, lost any chance of being considered by the supreme council of justice. for today, i have everything, it was a judicial control and i am tatiana shustrova. if you know the facts of corruption in the judicial system, or you want to tell about an unscrupulous judge, write to me on facebook or to the e-mail address you

see on your screens. see you in exactly one week. all the best! greetings, my name is yuriy fizar, this is espresso-interview, and as always, we invite very interesting guests in order to talk with them and discuss interesting topics. today i will talk with my guest about a country that is located geographically very far from us, and many people, when they hear about this a big country that is located far from us, they think, why this country? quite actively participates in the process of finding ways and methods of ending the russian war in ukraine. and i want to hear an answer to this question today from my guest and to many others, the country that we will talk about today, after all, not only about it, it is india,

india, its prime minister narendra modi, ukrainian-indian mutual, and much more. so, my guest is mridula ghosh, historical internationalist, chairman of the board. which viewer may remain unclear, perhaps, and some moments also ask a lot of questions to the ukrainian viewer, why we invited you, and because we want to talk, why i invited, because i want to talk, first of all, about what will happen, well, literally less than for you in less than two weeks. august 23 is the eve of independence day, well, at least it is now. it has been announced that indian prime minister narendra modi is scheduled to visit ukraine. before that

he has to visit poland, after poland, literally for half a day he has to come to of ukraine. i understand how important it is for ukraine, but my first question to you is: can you confirm that it is precisely on the rendering of modi that it will come to ukraine, because i read information that it could be the minister of foreign affairs, that it could be the national security adviser or is it...mr modi himself? yes, i can't confirm this, but for everything, i for everything , you know, i can say in advance that everyone is preparing to meet the fashions, but according to the plan, i know, and it's still may or april, then they were still talking about that this year has mr. minister of foreign affairs to visit, and that is exactly what was planned. in between , some events took place, and it was mr. mody who personally announced

that he wanted to visit, that is, it was also his initiative, and not only that, president zelenskyi invited him to ukraine many times. and ms. maridulo, please tell me, if it will be mr. modi, of course we would like it to be him, as the head of state of a large asian country, if he comes, do you personally have it? some explanation of why, after 2.5 years of aggressive russian war, he has only just arrived, in general, there has never been a prime minister of india before ukraine since independence, you know that, since 1991, this is the highest political level of leadership, it was not in ukraine, well, we are looking for an answer, maybe we need to dig deeper, and there were... there were only two presidents, in 1993 it was mr.

shankardal sharma, the president, and the second time was during the term of office of viktor yushchenko, president abdulkalam came here and both of them were outstanding scientists, and they communicated with your elite. shankardal sharma got i annoris kauza from kyiv university, but the president is more like that for us. a ceremonial person, that too, and the head of the government and the parliamentary leader and the prime minister are members of the parliamentary democracy, he is the main political leader, so from this point of view the arrival, the first arrival of the prime minister, because i once also said to the fact that in general mr. modi was the prime minister, whenever i spoke, they waved their hands, and what kind of prime minister would never come here, that is... that was, you know, that was the answer always at officials, with whom i have mo

they reacted to this in exactly the same way, you see, ukraine was not a priority, a priority in the field of vision, that is, they considered all these post-soviet states, all attention was focused on russia, first of all, and there was not even an embassy in the baltic countries, for example, they just opened this year, last year they were opened in lithuania and latvia, well, you see, there is still no ambassador in moldova, the ambassador in romania is accredited, he works part-time, well, we will leave these diplomatic details, but in the first years of independence, there was an embassy here immediately in kazakhstan, there is all of central nazism, the caucasus was also not for a long time sent to armenia, and the ambassador to ukraine was also a part-time ambassador to armenia, it was also a long time, but then they were appointed anyway, that is, at the diplomatic level. ukraine was not a priority, and you understand, it was still like that then, you remember, the sale of tanks to pakistan,

it’s just such a thing, such a distance was created between the countries, it absolutely annoyed india, it was annoying, and it made everything simple, until only in 2002 did president kuchma go, and before that there was a trip by the head of the national bank mr. yushchenko, and he then saw and wrote: a letter to mr. kuchma that they sold some 600-70 million there, but lost billions here, that is, it was a very responsible step, mr. personally. very supportive maintained relations with india and he received that president in 2005, i remember, nothing happened after that, but who traveled from ukraine? kravchuk went in 1992, right after independence, then mr. kuchma went and then mr. yanukovych went in 12th year, so in response to that visit

in december of 12th year, now he will come, who... not the president, the prime minister, but i consider this a very important event, and there were deputy ministers of foreign affairs, they were, but why is he so, i mean mr. narendra modi, why is he 2.5 years is enough for to form some kind of understanding, even in oneself, of what is happening in our country, and if you really understand what, what is aggression, as mr. modi says, well, he does not say openly, but but talks about that, talks. speaks, if he speaks it, if he understands it, why as much as 2.5 years was needed in order to understand that it is necessary to go to ukraine? you see, there are many questions here, unfortunately, i cannot give an answer, because it is not just his desire, it is his political will, of course, there is such a factor here, but there is another factor of security, that is, where the military , well, the action

is taking place, then maybe they will say no, no, no, it is not necessary and so on, but the factor of this visit was, unfortunately, unfortunately... a lot of blood and grief and tears between us and you, so you know, it is irrelevant here nationality or passport, i will say that we are also sad, and we were very indignant, and a lot of people even wrote a letter to panamoda from the diaspora that you shouldn't go there, if you go there, then come here too, i wrote an article, i mean there, it's in moscow, moscow, so i wrote an article also about that if there the optics will be terrible. i did not know that okhmadit would be shelled that day, and in general, there would be a direct speech by mr. modi, when he did not have a press conference at the meeting with putin on that very day, you know, it was very interesting, they were still one on one met, and mr. mody an experienced politician, still a very experienced politician, but he has certain such, you know, he has such a natural feeling

for something, i am not his supporter, supporter, i will say that right away, without any... my piety, that is, you know, i is not like that, this is called bhakt, people who pray to him, well , i am not like that, but nevertheless, i think it was worth seeing the leader who sat in samarkand next to 2 m, as we sit with you, yes, and to say that this is not an era of war, and it was september, the month of 2022, i think so a little, well, maybe he can suddenly, you know, something can speak, and this... once i was waiting for such a miracle in moscow, too, but nothing happened, the first day, instead, we were just all in blood and tears, because this is what happened, and he hugs, and there are some horses, some such, well, i don't know what is happening there, and it was very terrible to watch it, by the way, i 'm sorry to interrupt you, we have the direct speech of mr. modi from this meeting, we will give it, now we

'll let the audience hear her, and then maybe you 'll comment on what he said, let's go. any person who believes in humanity feels pain when people die, and especially when innocent children die, when we feel such pain, the heart just explodes. i had the opportunity to discuss these matters with you yesterday, as your friend, i always tell you that for the bright future of our future generations, peace is imperative, we believe that war is not a... solution, the solution cannot be through war, bombs, rockets and rifles cannot bring peace, so we emphasize dialogue. in your opinion, it was, was a strong statement on randremod, or no, was it like that? well, at most what he can, he could say, he spoke, that is, instead of saying why you

gave the order to shoot missiles at kyiv, well, there was no such direct speech. but i think that this is enough at this level, i think that i would have expected the same for the leaders sitting next to each other to talk, i don't really remember this, for the leaders to sit next to each other and you could see putin there, because putin is so faces changed when mr. modi said this, putin felt so uncomfortable, well, look, there were meetings with macron, were with scholz, or with other leaders, and other leaders even of the so- called global. half a day, well, i don't want to, because this is my prime minister, but i don't remember saying that at all, maybe i missed something, you know that, but it was damage control. i will say right away that it was damage control, but it was obvious that he was unhappy, he was unhappy, because he doesn't like it when his image is hit, and it was

a bloody image, it's just smeared with blood, as i say , it was just awful, that's why i think he won't be able to forgive, well , he can't put up with it, and soon there will be a statement that he is visiting ukraine, and very skillfully, it's such a twin-trip, yes... a double trip poland-ukraine, that is, everyone was afraid, and a lot of lobbyists in india constantly said: mr. molda should not go to ukraine, well, what is there, just even diplomats who were retired, who now head some such, you know, foundations or think tanks, which called gongo, yes, such government organized ones, they just spoke frankly, and there are many such broadcasts it was not worth sending. you need someone lower, a lower position, you don’t need to go to ukraine, it was especially annoying, and of course, these people are very pro-russian, and we also

thought that he would do everything to cancel or stop this trip or something, but you know, then the post the question would arise, then he can cancel poland, he won't do that, the risk is so big, after all, so if he is in poland, then the probability that... for half a day, well, people will come to you, after all, too many european leaders by train arrived, and then they leave, so let it be answered for half a day, i think that this is correct, but is there any, well, i understand, maybe you have some insights, where is he, i mean mr. panamodi, where is he going to be in kyiv, well, meeting the president like this, somewhere else will be possible, i don't know. you know, i do not work in the protocol service, maybe they are the people who will prepare the visits, maybe in the next days we will hear what will happen, i think that they will have many working meetings,

negotiations, it will be a lot, because political consultations, mr. kuleba was in march, and there the process has already started, which now, you know, if you look at it this way, this is the highest level after kuleba, now the beginning will push it. we have to resume political consultations, which were stopped, and now they are going on sectorally, for example, there was a meeting about education, and this is done even online, there will be culture, that is, the embassy of ukraine is also here, they work, and the ministry, separate ministries , in order to fully work on various agreements and relations, india has already provided some 16 times from. years, this is state aid. india also announced a grant called

the high impact community development grand. there is such a thing at the local level, the money is small, it is 1.5 million dollars, but india does not give this aid, this program anywhere, except to neighboring countries, but unfortunately, the memorandum of this has not yet been signed, it was announced about this program. it's still november or january of this year, so we're waiting for that too, maybe there will be some solution, that is, even if the money is small, well, you don't refuse what is provided, just it will go to local communities, it is not centralized, and here it will be as a grant, i.e. reconstruction of schools, libraries, i.e. civil infrastructure, this grant is price-oriented, so it is also important. and it will not join india, it will not give weapons, because there are none, although, you know, there are weapons, i know

that only the armenians were given recently, and there is a lot of such speculation that it seems that india also sent a ship to israel, some spaniards they didn't let him in, because it's between palestine, because mr. mody supported israel, and it's also important that there is a pe'. turns in indian foreign policy, what will happen with ukraine, we will see when he comes, he will have these negotiations, i hope that he will also visit some humanitarian organizations or places where to honor the memory of the dead, and it will also be possible to meet with diaspora, but the time is very short, i don't know, we made one appeal, and i collected the signatures of about 215 people in these two days from monday and already yesterday i sent him an appeal saying that please, you have this, that, that is, this is our appeal to you

directly, and they got it from the prime minister's office, i was told yesterday, and i mean , we'll see if he meets us, that would be fine, they got it and passed it on, don't you know mr. narend exactly, no, well, the adviser said that we will talk to him, so we have it, that is, you understand, we need to break some channel so that there is direct direct communication with him, and so that he knows the truth, whether he will have it, again, it is possible the question is not for you, whether or not there can be an appeal. in ukraine on rendrimod to the ukrainian people, as they often do the leaders of the countries who are coming to ukraine, i think he is coming, if on the 23rd, let's think about it, it's the day of the flag of ukraine for us, yes, and immediately in 12 hours it will be the day of independence of ukraine, so it's very appropriate an opportunity to congratulate the people, not to make speeches, not to make any political statements,

at least to congratulate ukraine, because... he constantly talks about the territorial integrity and sovereignty of this state, and coming on that day, he thus supports this sovereignty, he does not mind of this state, well , at least we are supposed to do this, if we would give him the opportunity, if only for one and a half or two minutes in the parliament, such a platform would be very good, it depends on the ukrainian leadership, no, well, india cannot say: give me the floor in the parliament, this is an initiative from ukraine be, of course, i would really like this initiative from ukraine to be heard, because it was only yesterday that it was such a joke, you know, who will say, or maybe they won't, because there is no translator, they say, there is no translator, so many people, 30 years the

university already has faculties, a department, and there there is a hindi center that trains specialists, there are many people who speak hindi fluently, so if there are no indians who know the language, well, i will not sit in front of the translator, so it should be an official translator, but there are ukrainians who can do it to do, well, i would very much like that god would give our leadership reason and that it would suggest doing it, because that's what you said. but to offer it is one thing, and the second is also to understand that from this side, you understand that yes, he makes such a statement, not a statement, congratulations, but because of that he is a lot of people, you understand, gaining some kind of trust, turning around - this is very important now, because russia has caused a lot of damage, and to us, to our country, and that india does not

support ukraine, is this the impression? and a lot of people support it, a lot of our people, well, we didn't go anywhere, we are sitting here and we want to prove that there is another india, now let's stick to it, there is another india, but you are talking about another india that supports ukraine , but there is another india that maintains very close ties with russia, there is, there is, as far as it goes it is tight, can you say that mr. modi, well maybe. independent of russia, but feels some need to be constantly in touch with russia? eh, well, it’s not very fashionable there, in general, our foreign policy department, and also a lot of these think tanks, yes, which are think tanks, no no not government organizations, they are very, as if they closed their eyes to all other countries, i.e. it's...