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Historically, Ukrainian courts have been seen as places where judges get rich by protecting corrupt interests, rather than pursuing justice. Consequently, they’ve become among Ukraine’s most distrusted institutions no small feat in a nation that largely distrusts its government and political leaders.
Two years ago, Ukraine created the High Anti-Corruption Court with the help of foreign experts to achieve a breakthrough.
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Resilience is the key angle through which policymakers imagine the next-generation Eastern Partnership (EaP). Achieving it is a tough challenge for the EaP countries. They are exposed to geopolitical risks and some of their internal and border conflicts are escalating. The coronavirus pandemic has put pressure on their societies and state resources.
This brief draws from the discussions at a conference organized by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, KfW Development Bank, and GMF. This yielded recommendations for the new, ambitious, and measurable post-2020 deliverables centered around building more resilient economies, empowering vibrant civil societies, and ensuring responsive and accountable state institutions.
It has recently become clear that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky loves kleptocracy as much as his predecessor Petro Poroshenko.
Zelensky has consistently protected corrupt officials from prosecution and killed anti-corruption reforms. Now he and his inner circle have destroyed two of Ukraine’s most high-profile graft cases – against Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff Oleg Tatarov and Ukraine’s most corrupt judge Pavlo Vovk.
Now it has also become obvious that Zelensky is as much of an authoritarian ruler as Poroshenko and is using extrajudicial tools to crack down on critics and redistribute assets.
As the West is trying to help Ukraine amid a new escalation of Russia’s aggression, Zelensky is making the country sink even lower by protecting the corrupt and lawless status quo.
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That is according to an HACC ruling dated April 5, 2021.This was reported by Ukrainian News.
The lawyers say NABU has filed 10 identical resolutions to suspend the case to circumvent the provisions on the allowed terms of a pretrial investigation, otherwise the case against their client would have to be closed for lack of any evidence. The HACC handed down the ruling to cancel the resolution of NABU senior detective V.V. Pachevsky (who heads NABU fifth department s third division of detectives) dated March 10, 2021, on the suspension of the preliminary investigation in the proceedings to provide refinancing to VAB by the NBU.