Ukraine Detains Supreme Court Chief in Graft Probe
- Supreme Court chief’s home raided on bribery allegations
- Prosecutors say they uncovered ‘large-scale’ graft at court
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Ukraine’s Supreme Court chief was detained by police and ousted from his post in a no-confidence vote after investigators said they had uncovered “large-scale corruption” in the nation’s highest judicial body.
Court Chairman Vsevolod Knyazev was detained on suspicion of taking a $2.7 million (2.5 million euro) bribe, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said Tuesday. At an emergency meeting of the court, his dismissal was backed by 140 judges, according to a statement on the court’s website.