Fugitive Ukrainian judge Chaus was killed in a rented apartment in Chisinau
Nikolai Chaus, a controversial Ukrainian judge who fled the country after a criminal case was opened against him and unsuccessful attempts to arrest him several times, was killed in Chisinau.
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It is reported community “Typical Chisinau” on the social network.
It is reported that friends of the fugitive judge in Kyiv were concerned that Nikolai Chaus had not been in touch for several days. Today, the police opened the apartment that Nikolai Chaus rented for the last months of his life.
In the apartment there was the body of Nikolai Chaus with multiple stab wounds. Traces of a struggle and a lot of blood were found.
The police have opened a criminal case under article premeditated murder, the investigation is ongoing.
Information: Nikolai Chaus, a judge of the Dneprovsky District Court of Kyiv, close to Poroshenko’s entourage, made decisions against Automaidan and was subject to lustration according to the law, being on the lustration list of the Ministry of Justice. Was not lustrated.
In 2012, a disciplinary case was opened against Chaus, but he was able to remain in his post. The judge repeatedly raised suspicions of violating the law, but always got out of the situation. Chaus was removed from the wanted list and prohibited from carrying out investigative actions against Viktor Yanukovych’s associate Yuri Ivanyushchenko, after which he was able to leave the Russian Federation for his villa in Monaco. People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko believes that “Chaus is a pocket judge of the Presidential Administration.” Led the case of Gennady Korban.
In 2015, the Temporary Special Commission decided that he had violated his oath of office and should be fired. But he was not fired. On August 9, 2016, he was detained for allegedly receiving a bribe of $150. The bribe was allegedly to make the “necessary decision” in criminal proceedings for drug trafficking. Mykola Chaus suspected that NABU was dealing with him and demanded to raise the bribe from $000 to $100000, Artem Sytnik, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, said at the time. The judge allegedly buried the money received in liter jars in his garden, as stated by NABU. Despite the fact that the judge was caught taking a bribe, they could not arrest him because the Verkhovna Rada did not give permission for this. A request for consent to detain Chaus was sent to the Verkhovna Rada. The day after he was convicted of a large currency bribe, the judge did not come to work. On November 150000, 14, the press service of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine reported that on November 2016, Interpol put the judge of the Dneprovsky District Court of Kyiv, Nikolai Chaus, on the international wanted list.
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