On March 27, 2023, the HACC found guilty Andrii Leonov, former judge of the Babushkinskyi District Court of Dnipro, who demanded a bribe from an entrepreneur for a favorable court decision. He was imprisoned for 11 years.

Judge Leonov was considering a case on charges of raider seizure of the property of the Dar Farm.

In the spring of 2018, the assistant head of the farm met with Judge Leonov, with whom he had a friendly relationship. The representative said that the head of the Dar Farm wanted to obtain victim status for his company in order to be allowed to participate in court hearings and release the defendant from custody. It turned out that he was not guilty of raiding, but was used only for further re-registration of the farm's property to another person. In return for this “service,” the defendant promised to expose the real people involved in the raid.

The judge promised to recognize the Dar Farm as a victim for $15,000, to consider the case more quickly, and to deliver a non-custodial sentence against the defendant. After the ruling, law enforcement officers detained the judge right in his office.

The court classified Leonov's actions under Article 368(4) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years in prison with confiscation of property and a 3-year ban on holding the position of judge. Leonov was not present in the courtroom when the verdict was announced, and in June 2023, the HACC Appeals Chamber put him on the wanted list.

In May 2023, the defense filed appeals against the first-instance court's verdict in respect of Leonov. In November of that year, the HACC Appeals Chamber ruled to partially grant the defense's appeals, removing from the reasoning section of the verdict the references to the record of the inspection of the judge's mobile phone and to the context of the messages it contained. In all other respects, the verdict was left unchanged.

Following the appellate court's ruling, the defense did not stop there and in December 2023 filed a cassation appeal against the first-instance verdict and the HACC Appeals Chamber's ruling.