Kravchenko was elected as new head of Supreme Court
The Plenum of the Supreme Court elected a new chairman. Stanislav Kravchenko was elected.
This was reported by Censor.NET.
108 out of 148 plenary members voted for it.
For Albert Yezerov - 2, Natalia Kovalenko - 13, Ivan Mishchenko - 14.
The candidates for the positions were:
Stanislav Kravchenko - Head of the Criminal Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court (the candidacy of the Head of the CCU of the Supreme Court was proposed by a group of judges of the Supreme Court)
Natalia Kovalenko - judge of the Administrative Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court
Albert Yezerov - judge of the Administrative Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court
Ivan Mishchenko - judge of the Commercial Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court
Earlier, journalist Natalia Sokolenko reported that Kravchenko had released Gongadze's killer, Pukach, from custody in 2003.
On 16 May, the NABU and the SAPO announced that they had uncovered a bribery scheme involving the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court. Law enforcers detained the current head of the Court, Kniazev, and seized $2.7 million. Later, the SAPO served Kniazev and his accomplice, a lawyer, with a notice of suspicion.
On the same day, the plenum of the Supreme Court voted to pass a motion of no confidence in Chief Justice Vsevolod Kniazev. As a result, he lost the status of the head of the Supreme Court but remains a judge of this instance.
On 18 May, the High Council of Justice granted the SAPO's motion to arrest Kniazev.
The head of the SAPO, Oleksandr Klymenko, clarified that the bribe was passed to a law firm that was actually used to cover a back office that allowed them to influence decisions of the Supreme Court and other courts. He did not name the law firm. The interests of Ferrexpo Zhevago were represented in the Supreme Court by the law firm Iliashov & Partners, but the firm denied any involvement in the case.
