The HACC Appeals Chamber has completed its review of the verdict against Oleh Halchenko-Avilov, former head of a department at the Prosecutor General’s Office, and his accomplice Ihor Osypovych. The court considered the defense's appeals against the first-instance decision.

The panel of judges dismissed the defense's appeals and upheld the HACC verdict. The ruling enters into force upon its pronouncement.

At first instance, the HACC found Halchenko-Avilov and Osypovych guilty.

• Oleh Halchenko-Avilov was sentenced to 6.5 years' imprisonment, confiscation of USD 60,100, and a three-year ban on holding certain offices.
• Ihor Osypovych was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment with full confiscation of property.

The materials concerning the case's principal figure, Zakhar Antypov, were severed into separate proceedings and suspended owing to his mobilization.

In his final statement, Oleh Halchenko-Avilov asked the appellate court to weigh every argument and piece of evidence more closely than the trial court had. He contends that a careful reading of all the evidence would show he committed no crime.

For his part, Ihor Osypovych asked the court to overturn the verdict and acquit him, denying that he committed any crime and pointing to the absence of direct evidence. Should the verdict stand, he asked it to strike the confiscation of property, since it is his family's only home and the mercenary motive was not properly proven.

The case dates to 2021, when the NABU and the SAPO uncovered a scheme to obtain a $150,000 bribe. Investigators allege that Zakhar Antypov, a prosecutor at the Prosecutor General’s Office, together with Halchenko-Avilov and Osypovych, promised the owner of Everad to help lift the seizure of four luxury cars. The vehicles had been impounded by police during searches in a fraud case over the sale of ineffective hypertension medicines.