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The editor-in-chief of “Censor.NET”, Yuriy Butusov, described the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the unconstitutionality of the criminal punishment for declaring false information “anti-state rebellion”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky must respond to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) to declare criminal liability unconstitutional for false statement.
This opinion was expressed on October 28 on Facebook by the editor-in-chief of the Censor.NET website, Yuri Butusov.
“Rebellion against the State”: [бизнесмен Игорь] Kolomoisky brought down the anti-corruption system with the hands of the Constitutional Court. Zelensky is afraid of turning away the client from the 95th quarter. The decision of the Constitutional Court to abolish article 366 part 1 – liability for illegal declaration – is a crushing blow to the entire anti-corruption system of Ukraine. This means that the entire meaning of the introduction of electronic statements by public servants and the meaning of the work of the National Anticorruption Agency are annulled, ”the journalist wrote.
He noted that, according to “Censor.NET”, more than 200 cases are related to inaccurate statements, which are handled by the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU).
“Once the decision of the Constitutional Court takes effect, responsibility for violations is removed from officials. What kind of life imprisonment for corrupt officials can Zelensky ask if the abolition of Article 366 does not even allow corrupt officials to be fined? ? ” – considers Butusov.
According to him, the KSU “just didn’t give a damn about state interests and anti-corruption reform.”
“The legality of article 366 must be completely restored. This is not a personal issue for the president, this is the subjectivity of our state, this is respect for the authorities, this is relations with our allies,” Butusov emphasized.
In August of this year, 47 popular deputies presented to the Constitutional Court their brief on the constitutionality of the provisions of the laws that constitute the so-called anti-corruption platform. We are talking about electronic declaration, special confiscation and Updated Art. 368-5 of the Penal Code, which criminalizes illicit enrichment.
On October 27, the Ukrainian media, referring to the sources, reported that the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognized art. 366-1 of the Penal Code, which establishes a criminal penalty for declaring false information.
The representative of the President of Ukraine in the KSU Fedor Venislavsky expressed the opinion that such a decision may have negative consequences for the European integration of Ukraine.
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