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The President of the Constitutional Court, Alexander Tupitsky, was summoned for questioning before the State Bureau of Investigation in the context of the case on the influence of a criminal organization on the activities of economic courts.
Investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation are monitoring the President of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine for his involvement in the commission of crimes as part of a criminal organization. This was announced today by the acting Director of the RRB Alexei Sukhachev, writes the press service of the department.
“During the judicial investigation the influence of a criminal organization in the activities of the economic courts is investigated, they make unfair decisions in the interest of close people for the illegal alienation of patrimonial assets. Thus, the president of the CCU is investigated for participation in a criminal organization, crimes committed in its composition, as well as taking measures to hide the crimes, “says the message.
On November 2, the head of the KSU was summoned for questioning.
Alexander Tupitsky was appointed a Constitutional Court judge in May 2013 based on the president’s quota. He is now 57 years old. It is originally from the Cherkasy region. In 1993–2010, he was a judge at the Kuibyshevsky district court in Donetsk, then before being elected to the KSU, he served in the economic appeals courts of the Donetsk, Lviv and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
He presided over the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in September 2019.
On October 27, 2020, the Constitutional Court canceled some of the provisions of the anti-corruption laws and indicated that the establishment of criminal responsibility for declaring deliberately inaccurate data, as well as the deliberate omission to present statements, is an excessive punishment for committing such crimes .
National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption in relation to the decision of the Constitutional Court closed access to the registry of electronic returns and he stopped its verification, storage and publication. The agency chief called the KSU’s decision “a crushing defeat for the anti-corruption reform.” NAPK stated that the registry of electronic returns will not work until Verkhovna Rada passes a new law that will give NAPK the ability to open such information.
The NAPC believes that the judges of the Constitutional Court made a decision on the unconstitutionality of criminal responsibility for false statements in their own interest, since in the statements of two of them the agency had previously identified signs of false information.
In addition, as a result of the blocking of NAPK’s access to state records, the National Agency cannot perform a special verification of the statements of candidates for leadership positions in state bodies, therefore, winners of local elections cannot be named to office, NAPK said.
During an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on October 29, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the submission to the Verkhovna Rada of an urgent bill on restoring the integrity of legal procedures in the Constitutional Court.
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