Overview
- Nasirov’s conviction became final when the appellate chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court ruled Thursday.
- The sentence includes a 17,000 hryvnia fine and a three-year ban on holding public office.
- The judges granted a narrow defense request by excluding testimony from former tax official Liudmyla Solotva and by recalculating time credited for pretrial detention.
- Co-defendant Volodymyr Novikov kept his acquittal after the appeal.
- Prosecutors say Nasirov’s 2015–2016 approvals let firms tied to ex-MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko delay payments, costing the state over 2 billion hryvnias, and he remains a suspect in a separate 2022 NABU bribery case.