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The judge of the Kyiv District Court of Odessa Lyudmila Saltan demanded $ 4000 f...

She loved money and drink: Judge from Odessa mobilized to the Armed Forces, she was caught on drunkenness - the media

The judge of the Kyiv District Court of Odessa Lyudmila Saltan demanded $ 4000 for the necessary decision on a civil claim, but NABU detectives were detained. To avoid punishment, she went into the army, but the old habits did not throw, the journalists found out. The judge of the Kiev district court of Odessa Lyudmila Saltan wanted to avoid punishment for a corruption crime and mobilized to the Armed Forces.

However, during the service she was noticed in a drunken form, the journalists of the project "Investigation. Info" found out. In April 2023, the High Council of Justice (GRP) dismissed Saltan from the performance of the judge after being caught on a bribe for making the necessary decision in a civil case. In the fall of 2024, she decided to mobilize, but she complained to the command of the military unit for consuming alcohol. Ludmila Saltan has been a judge since May 13, 2009.

According to the decision of the High Council of Justice, in March 2023 it proposed one of the parties to the dispute $ 4000 for making the necessary decision. She told the plaintiff about a bribe directly in the office. Saltan emphasized that the money should be brought as soon as possible, because it goes on vacation. The plaintiff did not want to give a bribe and wrote a statement at NABU.

She was detained on March 29, 2023 during a meeting with a plaintiff in a Judge's car on Marazlievskaya Street during money transfer. Femida servants raised a suspicion of committing a criminal offense under Article 368 (368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine ("acceptance of a proposal, promise or receipt by an official of undue benefit"). For this she was threatened with imprisonment for a term of five to ten years without the right to occupy certain positions and with confiscation of property.

Saltan is considered by the Supreme Anti -Corruption Court. In September 2024, the judge decided to mobilize, she was assigned to the post of sailor of the reserve of the reserve company in the 36th separate brigade of the Marines. From October 24, Saltan has been serving in another military unit.

However, on December 5, 2024, the High Council of Justice (GRP) received a letter from the command of the military unit, where Lyudmila Saltan served, which states that from the beginning of the service the woman did not participate in hostilities. It is known that on November 27, Saltan appeared in a state of alcohol intoxication and made an administrative protocol. The case will be heard in the Malinovsky District Court of Odessa, the hearing has not yet been appointed.

Lyudmila Saltan did not appear at a meeting of the 2nd Disciplinary Chamber of the GRP, where they considered a disciplinary case against her. Together with the lawyer, she filed a request to stop the case through mobilization. The consideration was postponed on January 29, 2025. This is not the first time that mobilized judges consume alcohol in military units. Recently, the GRP released the judge of the Desnyanskiy District Court of Kyiv Svitlana, who committed an accident in drunken.