Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Parliament permits arrest of Court of Appeals chairman

The Verkhovna Rada approved the appeal of the Prosecutor General to detain and arrest chairman of Kyiv's Court of Appeals Anton Chernushenko.
In turn, 276 deputies voted for his detention. 273 MPs voted for the decision to arrest the Court of Appeals chairman.

As reported earlier, on June 24, the Prosecutor General's Office reported Chernushenko was suspected of committing serious criminal offenses. Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin initiated that he should be removed by the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine from performing his duties and appealed to the parliament with a request for permission to arrest Chernushenko.

The initiator of the document is MP Ruslan Knyazevich, who is chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and Justice.
The Chairman of Kyiv's Court of Appeals is suspected of passing obviously unjust court rulings.
Some media released SMS messages where Chernushenko mentioned which decisions should have been taken in certain cases, also citing the names of defendants in the cases.


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