Oleksandr Pavlovych Korniets (
Ukrainian: Олександр Павлович Корнієць; 27 March 1972, in
Kiev
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
)
is a
Ukrainian lawyer. Deputy Prosecutor of Kiev region, he was arrested along with Volodymir Shapakin in early July 2015 accused of taking a bribe and after searches found important amounts of money and diamonds. The then dubbed "diamond prosecutors" were released on bail a few days later.
In April 2016 Korniyets filed a libel lawsuit against a Hromadske journalist,
Dmytro Hnap in what has been described as a
witch hunt launched by
Petro Poroshenko's supporters.
Poroshenko’s troll army borrows Kremlin techniques
''Unian'', 19 April 2016
References
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Lawyers from Kyiv
1972 births
Living people