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Vsevolod Kniaziev, former chairman of the Supreme Court and a suspect in a bribery case, was released from detention after paying Hr 18 million bail ($450,000) on Jan. 31. Kniaziev has been dismissed from his position as the court's chairman but can return to work as an ordinary judge at the Supreme Court because as he has not been formally suspended. The High Council of Justice said that it cannot suspend Kniaziev until prosecutors file a motion to suspend him.

The High Anti-Corruption Court has reduced the amount of bail from UAH 75 million to UAH 55 million as an alternative to the detention of ex-Chairman of the Supreme Court Vsevolod Kniazev convicted of bribery.

In what is turning out to be independent Ukraine’s biggest judiciary scandal ever, Supreme Court head Vsevolod Kniaziev’s bail was set at $2.9 million.

The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) ruled that a preventive measure be imposed on the person involved in the case of bribery of the former head of the Supreme Court Vsevolod Kniazev, attorney-at-law Oleh Horetsky, in the form of detention with an alternative bail of UAH 80 million, HACC told Interfax-Ukraine.