Bribe-taking judge opens fire, escapes arrest in Ukraine

09:28, 30.03.2016 1 min read

Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk has told President Petro Poroshenko about a failed attempt by NABU detectives to catch a judge who took a bribe and opened fire amid detention, the Ukrainian president's press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko said.

"The NABU director told the president about a special operation to apprehend a judge who received a UAH500,000 bribe. The judge opened fire from a firearm and, using his immunity, fled," Tseholko wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday.

Poroshenko has already instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to take all measures to apprehend the judge.