According to the results of the contest for judges of the new Supreme Court of Ukraine, 80 percent of judges are active or retired, one in four of them received a negative opinion of the Public Integrity Council (PIC), Center for Combating Corruption (CCC) has said.
It says that 25 judges out of 30 are acting or retired judges in the administrative, civil and criminal courts, and 18 judges in the economic court.
“Every fourth future judge of the Supreme Court, elected by the Ukraine’s High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ), violated human rights, or made politically motivated decisions, or can not explain his own income,” the CCC said.
The majority of candidates – nine judges – with negative conclusions of the PIC, will be sent to the cassation administrative court of the Supreme Court, eight judges – to the economic court of appeal, seven judges – to the civil court, and six judges – to the criminal court.
“Despite the loud statements made by the Ukrainian president on the renewal of the Supreme Court and HQCJ head Serhiy Koziakov on the unprecedented transparency of this process, the same judges have won the contest held by the Commission. Some of them also have questionable integrity or experience of political persecution in favor of the authorities,” the CCC said.
As reported, the HQCJ made public the winners of the contest for the position of judges of the new Supreme Court and, following the results of the competitive selection will send recommendations to the Supreme Council of Justice on 120 candidates for appointing judges of the respective cassation courts under the Supreme Court – administrative, economic, criminal and civil courts – 30 judges per each of the listed court.
