Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Lisovychi, Tarashcha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine · 2011

Ukraine: two women who agreed a curse-removal scheme by telephone, met to plan it, then took a taxi to a couple's home — both jailed

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

two women acting together under the pretext of a rite of divination and the removal of a curse

Organization

Tarashcha District Court, Kyiv Oblast (Таращанський районний суд Київської області)

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The court found the pretext of a rite of divination and curse removal was the means by which the two obtained entry to the victims' home, and that the scheme was agreed and planned in advance around that pretext rather than arising opportunistically.

Curse or witchcraft threat
Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Scope decision

Neither defendant is named. Ukrainian courts anonymise participants in published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies them by case number and court — case no. 1-49/11, judgment no. 20138386, Tarashcha District Court — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. No attempt has been made to identify them from other sources; the victims are unnamed. The judgment is long and sets out several counts; the summary here is confined to the count the court sets out first, and no total loss is stated because the judgment obtained does not give one in a form that can be quoted with confidence. Damages were awarded jointly and severally, which the judgment records but does not quantify in the text obtained. Both defendants received custodial terms and were in custody at the date of judgment; unlike several other Ukrainian records held here, this was not a fine or a suspended sentence. This is a fraud record and not a record of any religious community: no tradition, congregation or organisation is implicated. appellateStatus is none-found: no appeal appears in the judgment obtained.

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Proceedings

2011-07-13 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Tarashcha District Court, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (Таращанський районний суд Київської області). Two defendants, anonymised in the published judgment as ОСОБА_8 and ОСОБА_11, were each convicted of fraud committed by prior conspiracy under part 2 of article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The first was sentenced to one year six months' deprivation of liberty and the second to two years six months, both remaining in custody with their terms running from 24 February 2011, and damages were awarded against them jointly and severally in favour of the victims. The court found that on 21 May 2010 the two reached a criminal agreement by telephone to obtain property by deception and abuse of confidence in Kyiv Oblast; that the following morning one travelled to the other's home where 'they jointly drew up a plan of their criminal activity'; and that the same day they travelled by taxi to the village of Lisovychi in Tarashcha District and entered the home of a married couple 'under the pretext of a rite of divination and the removal of a curse'.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a scheme agreed by telephone in advance and planned in person the following morning
travel by taxi to a household selected in another district
entry to a married couple's home under the pretext of a rite of divination and curse removal

Cited record

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court of record criminal judgment Вирок Таращанського районного суду Київської області від 13 липня 2011 року, справа № 1-49/11, реєстраційний № 20138386 (Єдиний державний реєстр судових рішень).: The full text of the criminal judgment, read directly from Ukraine's Unified State Register of Court Decisions. The court records that the two defendants «по телефону досягли злочинної змови на заволодіння чужим майном шляхом обману та зловживанням довірою»; that the next morning one «прибула до місця проживання [іншої]... де спільно склали план своєї злочинної діяльності»; and that the same day they «на невстановленому слідством автомобілі "Таксі" прибули в с. Лісовичі Таращанського району у домоволодіння подружжя», entering «під приводом обряду ворожіння та зняття порчі». The operative part convicts both under ч.2 ст.190 КК України, imposing one year six months and two years six months' deprivation of liberty respectively, with terms running from 24 February 2011 and damages awarded jointly and severally.

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Source and tier basis: https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/20138386 Corpus classification: court-of-record; evidentiary role: criminal-judgment.
Retrieval: 2026-07-29 · Preserved; Bound by Fear research cycle 2026-07-29 (Ukrainian-language sweep; full judgment read via the browser pane from reyestr.court.gov.ua; both sentences, the planning findings and the joint damages award taken verbatim from the judgment)

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