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The KSU said that only a court can decide to remove a judge (Photo: KSU)
According to the court’s press service, the president can remove from office those he designates, but the decision to remove the judge from the Constitutional Court can only be made by the court in an extraordinary plenary session.
«No other body or official can make such a decision in your place. Therefore, a special plenary session will be scheduled on this issue, ”the court said.
On Tuesday, December 29, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed KSU chief Alexander Tupitsky for two months. The representative of the head of state in the KSU Fedor Venislavsky said that this does not contradict the Constitution, because it is included in the powers of the president.
«According to Article 154, a person appointed by the President of Ukraine can be removed from office for up to two months during the pre-trial investigation, ”he explained.
The day before, the Attorney General’s Office sent a petition to the president to remove Alexander Tupitsky. The CCU said that this would be contrary to the Constitution.
On December 24, the KSU reported that the court received a subpoena to subpoena the head of the court to the Attorney General’s Office on December 28. «participate in the procedural action ”. According to media reports, he was summoned to raise suspicions. Tupitsky did not come, citing family circumstances. You are suspected of knowingly bribery of a witness and false testimony.
Prior to this, the Scheme program released an investigation into the possible judicial fraud of the head of the CCU. Journalists learned that Alexander Tupitsky in 2006-2010 was involved in the seizure of property of the plant in Zuhres, Donetsk region and, probably, through an authorized representative received a stake in the company.
Tupitsky, who headed the CCU on September 17, 2019, was in the limelight due to the scandalous decision to abolish criminal responsibility for lying in statements.
After that, several high-profile cases were closed, in particular, against the Mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov, the head of the Interior Ministry, Arsen Avakov, the former director of Ukroboronprom Pavel Bukin, as well as the Constitutional Court judge Volodymyr Moysik. .
Alexander Tupitsky was appointed a CCU judge in 2013 by then-President Viktor Yanukovych. During the Yanukovych government, he was a judge at the Kuibyshevsky District Court of Donetsk. In 2010-2013 he worked as a judge in the economic courts of appeal of Donetsk, Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk.
