Conviction Divination and fortune-telling services Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine · 2013

Ukraine: a woman known locally for telling futures and removing curses met a client in a hospital corridor and told her a curse lay on her family and her mother

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

a woman locally known as someone who tells people's futures and can remove a curse by divination

Organization

Nadvirna District Court, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Надвірнянський районний суд Івано-Франківської області)

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The court found the victim approached the defendant because of her local reputation for telling futures and removing curses, and that the defendant then told her a curse lay on her family and her mother — the claimed power being both the reason the victim came and the basis on which her money was sought.

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

Scope decision

The defendant is not named. Ukrainian courts anonymise participants in published judgments as a matter of course, and this record identifies her by case number and court — case no. 348/2861/13-к, judgment no. 36380281, Nadvirna District Court — in accordance with CODEBOOK §10. No attempt has been made to identify her from other sources; the victim and her mother are unnamed. This case differs from the street approaches recorded elsewhere in this archive in that the victim sought the defendant out on the strength of her local reputation, which the judgment states expressly. The meeting took place in a hospital corridor; the judgment does not suggest the hospital or its staff had any involvement, and none is asserted. The judgment obtained does not state the total sum taken and no figure is asserted here. The bail figure of 22,940 hryvnia is the security the defendant had posted, not a loss, a fine or a compensation award, and must not be read as any of those. The sentence was a fine; the defendant did not go to prison. This is a fraud record and not a record of any religious community.

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Proceedings

2013-12-23 · conviction and sentence at first instance

Nadvirna District Court, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine (Надвірнянський районний суд Івано-Франківської області). The defendant, anonymised in the published judgment as ОСОБА_3, was convicted of fraud under part 2 of article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and fined one hundred tax-free minimum incomes, being 1,700 hryvnia; the money bail she had posted, 22,940 hryvnia, was dealt with on the judgment taking effect. The court found that on 4 November 2011 the victim sought the defendant out in Nadvirna 'in order to learn about her future, since it had become known to her' that the defendant 'was engaged in telling about people's futures and could remove a curse by divination'. The two met on vul. Hrushevskoho and went together into a hospital building, where in the corridor the defendant, 'taking advantage of the trusting features of her character and friendly relations towards her', told her of a curse laid on her family and on her mother, and formed the intention to deceive her and obtain her money and other valuables.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a local reputation that led the victim to seek her out
the assertion that a curse had been laid on the victim's family and on her mother
abuse of the confidence and friendly relations that followed

Cited record

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court of record criminal judgment Вирок Надвірнянського районного суду Івано-Франківської області від 23 грудня 2013 року, справа № 348/2861/13-к, провадження № 1-кп/348/164/13, реєстраційний № 36380281 (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 victim «познайомилась із [обвинуваченою] з метою дізнатись про своє майбутнє, оскільки їй стало відомо, що [обвинувачена]... займається розповідями про майбутнє людини і може "знімати порчу" шляхом ворожіння»; that the two «разом пройшли у приміщення лікарні, де у коридорі стали розмовляти»; and that there, «користуючись довірливими рисами характеру та привітними стосунками до неї», the defendant «розповіла про наведену на сім'ю та матір... "порчу"» intending to deceive her «і таким чином заволодіти її грошовими коштами та іншими цінностями». The operative part convicts under ст.190 ч.2 КК України and imposes a fine of one hundred tax-free minimum incomes, 1,700 hryvnia, addressing the 22,940 hryvnia money bail on the judgment taking effect.

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Source and tier basis: https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/36380281 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; the reputation finding, the hospital-corridor meeting, the charge and the fine taken verbatim from the judgment, with the bail figure distinguished from any loss or penalty)

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