14:36 18.12.2017

Issue of choosing measure of restraint for judge to be resolved after HCJ permission - Kholodnytsky

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Issue of choosing measure of restraint for judge to be resolved after HCJ permission - Kholodnytsky

The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) has prepared documents on a judge of the High Administrative Court, who is suspected of unreliable declaration of property, for the High Court of Justice (HCJ), SAPO Chief Nazar Kholodnytsky has said.

"We have established the fact that he... did not declare all of his property, in particular, his apartments," he said on the 112 Ukraine television channel on Friday, December 15.

According to him, this judge, who in fact has a home in Kyiv, judicially intended to receive official housing as a person in need of it.

"Then we will have investigation and trial. I think that we will complete this proceeding within two months envisaged [by law]," he said.

When asked what kind of responsibility such actions foresee, Kholodnytsky said: "This is not a serious crime, and it does not entail a serious measure of restraint, but the very fact of criminal responsibility for a judge is already a wide response."

Speaking about when the measure of restraint can be chosen for the judge, he said: "Documents have already been prepared, and we appeal to the High Council of Justice, we will get their permission, and after that we will be able to apply to the court."

According to Kholodnytsky, a session of the High Council of Justice is to be held on Saturday, December 16.

Earlier, detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) handed a notice of suspicion to a judge of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine due to the declaration of unreliable information (Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The SAPO judge included deliberately false information in his annual electronic declarations for 2015 and 2016.

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