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CHISINAU (Reuters) - A Ukrainian judge who left the country in 2016 facing corruption charges was taken back across the border into Ukraine after being abducted outside a gym, the Moldovan interior minister said on Monday.
Judge Mykola Chaus was accused by Ukrainian law enforcement of taking a $150,000 bribe and stashing money in a glass jar in his garden five years ago. His wife Svitlana says the bribery case was fabricated.
His lawyer Iulian Balan told Reuters that Chaus was not guilty of any crimes on Moldovan territory and that the only information he had about his client’s whereabouts came from the Moldovan authorities.
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