On August 26, 2024, a panel of judges of the HACC AC, consisting of Mykhailenko, Pavlyshyn, and Nykyforov, found former MP Solvar guilty and granted the prosecutor’s appeal. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Solvar is currently serving in the army.
Ruslan Solvar is an MP of VII and VIII convocations. He was accused of illegally receiving more than UAH 360,000 in compensation from the Verkhovna Rada for renting a room in the Kyiv Hotel in 2017–2018.
On September 23, 2022, the HACC AC overturned the acquittal and found Solvar guilty of abuse of office. The ex-MP was then sentenced to 3 years of real imprisonment with a fine of UAH 8,500 and a ban on holding certain positions for a year.
But on December 6, 2023, the cassation court suspended the enforcement of Solvar’s sentence and sent his case for a retrial to the appellate instance. The reason was that the NABU-SAPO charged the ex-MP with abuse of power, while the HACC AC changed the qualification formula to abuse of office when sentencing him.
During the repeated appellate hearing, the prosecutor asked the court to find Solvar guilty and sentence him to 3 years in prison with a ban on holding positions in public authorities.
The defense counsel instead asked to overturn the acquittal of the court of the first instance and send the case for a new trial so that the court would consider the position of the court of cassation in this case.
