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📁 The case about the luxurious lifestyle of Cassation Commercial Court judge within the Supreme Court Serhii Zhukov is "stalled"
⚖️ The High Council of Justice has officially suspended consideration of the disciplinary case against Zhukov (and likewise against Zhukova Yevheniia Oleksiivna, Zhukov’s wife and also a judge) until the materials of the criminal proceeding are received and a written permit to use them is obtained due to the disappearance of circumstances that could interfere with the pre-trial investigation, and also until the results of the monitoring of Judge Zhukov’s lifestyle conducted by the NACP are received.
In essence this is classic delay. To draw less public attention to it, the HCJ took an interesting step. In the press release on the official website they deliberately changed the usual order of presenting information. Normally news about the consideration of already-open cases is published at the top (at the very beginning), while questions about opening new cases are placed below.
This time they turned everything upside down: information about the Zhukovs was deliberately "buried" deep in the text (69-th paragraph), trying simply to hide it from journalists' and the public’s view.
⚙️ What is the main problem with this decision? The law provides for unlimited timeframes for the pre-trial investigation in a criminal proceeding, and there are no set deadlines for monitoring either, so the proceeding against Zhukov could hang in limbo for years.
A separate question for the NABU, which once again demonstrates selectivity and does not provide the HCJ with the necessary information about Zhukov, which literally gave the Council free rein to suspend the case.
In some cases they provide it, in others they do not. It looks like a perfect tactical move. Why remove a judge or see a case through to the end? It’s much more convenient to assemble a team of judges "on the hook" — to bring them around.
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