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Ukraine's Constitutional Court strip several powers of the National Agency for Preventing Corruption

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Four of the judges are under investigation for failing to properly declaring assets in their declarations, and refused to recuse themselves from the case, despite calls to do so from the government and anti-corruption campaigners.
 
Something should jump out even from the emphasis in the first paragraph: why does constitutionally crippling the National Agency Against Corruption endager Western funding and European visa-free travel?

The obvious answer that everybody implicitly knows but that's improper to say on Ukrainian TV is that the NAAC is the foremost pillar of Western control of the state organs of Ukraine. Hence also how the ambassadors from G7 countries started to loudly wurble their concern about the constitutional court's bad decisions.

[Babel] The Constitutional Court explained its decision by the fact that the previous powers of the NAAC allowed the department to influence all judges, including the judges of the Constitutional Court. And this means "control of the judiciary by the executive branch." The Constitutional Court does not completely deny the need to declare, but requires that the principle of the independence of the judiciary be observed.
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After the decision of the Constitutional Court, the head of the NAAC Alexander Novikov said that earlier the agency had found "signs of declaring false information" in two judges of the Constitutional Court - Irina Zavgorodnyaya and Sergei Golovaty, and judge Vladimir Moisik in the NAPK was suspected of using a forged document. When all these facts became known, Novikov did not elaborate. .... After the publication of the court's decision, the Scheme program reported that the head of the Constitutional Court, Alexander Tupitsky, bought land in Koreiz in Crimea in 2018, formalized an agreement under Russian law, but did not enter the land into the declaration.
The matter entered the court on Oct 8. The court decision was made on the evening of Oct 27. Radio Free Europe reported the above on the head of the Constitutional Court on Oct 28. Uh-huh.

It's almost self-demonstrating how this works in practice: there are some crooks of various levels, which is frankly probably the majority of them, all caught on their hooks. When they don't govern or judge in the 'right' way, someone tugs on the lines.
 
Rule of Law, Ukrainian edition...

Zelensky is proposing the removal of all members of the constitutional court.
[UkrPravda]Zelensky proposes to terminate the powers of all judges of the Constitutional Court: the text of the bill
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Article 2 refers to the termination of the powers of the composition of the Constitutional Court, which was in force at the time of the scandalous decision.
However, he does not seem to have enough support in the Rada, probably because this is nothing less than a complete usurpation of power of a constitutionally protected branch of government, for which the legally appropriate outcome is life imprisonment.

Meanwhile, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, or specifically its agents like Evgeniy Shevchenko call for the 47 Rada deputies that filed the lawsuit to examine the constitutionality of the NAAC in the first place to be shot:
[FB] Here is a hit list of those duputy-freaks who are the authors of the submission to the KSU, the purpose of which is to destroy the anti-corruption structure, destroy relations with Western partners, and return Ukraine to the orbit of Russian influence.
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P.S .: Most of this FSB agency travels in armored Mercedes, so patriots who are ready to destroy enemies and occupiers not only at the front but also in the rear should find an RPG (hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher), or ideally an anti-tank missile system. Medvedchuk and some other privileged scum love helicopters, so it is desirable to have a MANPADS (portable anti-aircraft missile system). Home addresses will be published soon, and the hunting season is open to everyone - in principle, since 2014. The war continues and either they will destroy us or we will destroy them.
There is also a small but dangerous croud outside the Constitutional Court that is threatening the judges.

A side note about the criminality of firing inaccurate information on declarations of property, which is the main issue forced by the NAAC, is that apparently no one ever sees prison over it. Its function really is just kompromat collected by Western curators.
 
Mission Accomplished! There is no more corruption, so we can close the offices, shutter the agency! ;););)
Which offices, though?
1) National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
2) National Agency Against Corruption
3) Specialised Anticorruption Prosecutoriat
4) Highest Anticorruption Court​
The court, by the way, is not under the Ukrainian judicial system, but is instead controlled by the Americans.

Almost nobody that matters actually gives a damn about the so-called corruption involved, which didn't decrease one iota after the years of operations of these various extra-governmental agencies. Rather, this is basically a revolt by local interests, probably led by the likes of Kholomoisky and Avakov, who believe that Ukrainians should be pillaged and fleeced by other Ukrainians, and the various grant-eaters that are paid to believe that Ukrainians should be cannon fodder to serving Western economic and geopolitical interests.

Naturally, it is important to push this through before the American elections.
 
Mission Accomplished! There is no more corruption, so we can close the offices, shutter the agency! ;););)
You don't get how Ukraine works. These 'anti-corruption' organs have in fact just created another level of corruption in the country. The people working in them, instead of exposing existing corruption, use the information they possess to blackmail corrupt officials and take part of their spoils.
 
I thought for a moment that this was an inter-Oligarch mudfight again, but apparently there's a geopolitical aspect to this, and given Biden's own vested interests in "Ukraine", this gets interesting.
The main problem is that if the 'Texans*' succeed, IMF will cut Ukraine off from new loans, which will result in a quick government insolvency, inability to pay off state employees, pensions, etc - which will be promptly followed by another maidan, this time with very different slogans and goals. The disabling of the new 'anti-corruption' organs would mean effective loss of western control over Ukraine (and no, it won't mean that Russia will gain control, it will revert back to the local oligarchs who had it since Kuchma became president), and no control means no more money.
It's very interesting (in a sad and a bit morbid way), the President and the Parliament (or the part of it still loyal to Zelensky) going against the Constitutional Court, especially since the constitution doesn't give them any legal option on how to do it. Any law they adopt to this end will be unconstitutional and can be quickly struck down by the CC. Democracy at its finest :ROFLMAO:

* from the famous "In Texas only Texans can rob banks" (The Magnificent Seven, 1960). This is actually used quite often in Ukrainian political commentary :)
 
I thought for a moment that this was an inter-Oligarch mudfight again, but apparently there's a geopolitical aspect to this, and given Biden's own vested interests in "Ukraine", this gets interesting.
While it's true that the Democrats are much more hands-on compared to the GOP, it's not even just the Americans.

A pretty indicative recent episode is President Zelensky's recent meeting with MI-6 [112, etc.]. It's telling not because Ukraine has something to discuss with British intelligence, but rather because it's not Zelensky meeting with the prime minister or foreign secretary, nor director of SBU meeting with director of MI-6.

I mean... I'm not even sure what to say about this. Can you imagine, say, Macron, Merkel, or Trudeau not simply going to Moscow to discuss something, but rather heading straight to Lubyanka? ... It's like the British are not even bothering with the kayfabe that Ukraine is a sovereign state and are intentionally putting the prezedent in his place.
 
Well. Ukraine has never had much respect on the world forum. Historically. First instance of a Western Ukrainian state was squashed flat by the Poles with the support of the French anyhow.
 
A pretty indicative recent episode is President Zelensky's recent meeting with MI-6 [112, etc.]. It's telling not because Ukraine has something to discuss with British intelligence, but rather because it's not Zelensky meeting with the prime minister or foreign secretary, nor director of SBU meeting with director of MI-6.
I've heard a theory that they were giving Ze instructions on what to do with Yermak, since he's considered the most probably culprit behind the failure of the 33 Bogatyrs operation. I'm not sure I believe it since Yermak is still the head of Ze's office.
 
Oh man I'm dying here... :ROFLMAO:
Yesterday Zelensky has admitted that Yanukovich has been removed from power in 2014 unconstitutionally and used it as an example of how - also unconstitutionally - to remove the Constitutional Court. Because by now it's universally accepted that the Constitutional Court cannot be removed by Verkhovna Rada (the parliament of Ukraine) and it even seems that the proposed law doesn't have sufficient support from VR deputies, even in Ze's own party.
How can somebody calling themselves a president of a European country say "we have violated the constitution once, we can do it again" is beyond me.
 
How can somebody calling themselves a president of a European country say "we have violated the constitution once, we can do it again" is beyond me.
This is a question of the holiest of holies: money.

BTW the constitutional court had a two-hour conference which I'm not going to watch, but to use Semchenko's summary: the court is very sorry that they've accidentally followed the constitution because they did not have did not have clear instructions on high on what decision to make. The colonial revolt is not doing too hot.
 
Soooo are they revolting or not revolting or pretending to revolt?
The people won't revolt. They did so in 2014 and it didn't help a bit. They changed direction 180 degrees in 2019 when they elected Zelensky, and it also didn't help a bit. So now most Ukrainians are completely disillusioned with Ukrainian politics, they just don't see a reason to try again. If you see a protest in Ukraine it's mostly a group of 100-200 extremists paid by some oligarch trying to scare somebody who is swimming against the flow.
As for the CC situation, IMO the people who stand behind it will get to some agreement with the ruling party and the situation will calm down.
 
The people won't revolt. They did so in 2014 and it didn't help a bit. They changed direction 180 degrees in 2019 when they elected Zelensky, and it also didn't help a bit. So now most Ukrainians are completely disillusioned with Ukrainian politics, they just don't see a reason to try again. If you see a protest in Ukraine it's mostly a group of 100-200 extremists paid by some oligarch trying to scare somebody who is swimming against the flow.
As for the CC situation, IMO the people who stand behind it will get to some agreement with the ruling party and the situation will calm down.
There's some degree of irony that democracy doesn't give greater freedom but instead is a real illusion because your country is at the mercy of foreign powers.
 
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