Client - оne of Ukraine’slargest road construction companies and its ultimate beneficial owner.

‍Matter - representation of theclient in complex cross-border criminal proceedings concerning alleged bribery,initiated pursuant to an international request for mutual legal assistance.

‍Role - BLACK FORT partnersact as lead defence counsel, developing and implementing a comprehensivestrategy in parallel criminal investigations conducted in Ukraine and Poland.

‍Jurisdictions - Ukraine | Poland

‍AuthoritiesInvolved - National Anti-Corruption Bureau ofUkraine; Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland — Centralne BiuroAntykorupcyjne, CBA.

‍Practice - White-Collar Crime

‍Team - 2 partners; 3 lawyers.

‍Status - the proceedings areongoing.

‍Significance of the Matter - the matter is one ofthe first publicly known examples of a parallel anti-corruption investigationconducted simultaneously by Ukrainian and Polish law enforcement authoritieswithin the framework of cooperation between the Office of the Prosecutor Generalof Ukraine and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Poland.Thecross-border nature of the proceedings required the coordination of the defenceacross two jurisdictions and the resolution of complex issues relating tomutual legal assistance, the collection, transfer, admissibility and use ofevidence, extradition risks, and the interaction between two distinct criminalprocedure systems.