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💕 An official of the MIA Service Center, whose reinstatement was requested by members of parliament
Biletskyi Viktor Mykolayovych — deputy head of the Service Center in Zhytomyr. The most notable fact in his biography is not a corruption scandal, but a legal-political battle over the position, in which the opposition was the MIA itself and the lobbyists were the Servant of the People faction.
This is a unique case: other figures hide their tracks, while Biletskyi left behind court decisions, parliamentary inquiries, and publications in Zhytomyr media. There is material, and the more you dig, the more interesting it gets.
The court reinstated him, the MIA did not comply — leading to the deputies' statement
✔️15 September 2021: Zhytomyr Administrative Court in case No.240/16125/21 obliged the reinstatement of Biletskyi to the position of head of the Zhytomyr Service Center from 23 February. The court ordered “to allow the decision regarding reinstatement to be executed immediately.”
✔️ 8 December 2021: The Seventh Administrative Court of Appeal dismissed the Main Service Center of the MIA’s appeal — the decision took legal effect.
✔️17 December 2021: in the Verkhovna Rada a parliamentary inquiry was announced by 6 MPs of the Servant of the People party to Minister Denys Monastyrsky demanding the reinstatement of Biletskyi and the suspension of Andriy Voronin (then head of the Zhytomyr Service Center), who had been “notified of suspicion in a criminal offense.” The deputies:
🔸Arsenii Pushkarenko — head of the regional faction in Zhytomyr
🔸Serhii Kuzminykh — Chudniv constituency No.67
🔸Bohdan Kytsak — Berdychiv constituency No.63
🔸Dmytro Kostiuk — Novohrad-Volynskyi No.65
🔸Tetiana Hryshchenko — Malyn constituency No.66
🔸Tetiana Tsyba — Kyiv, by party list
6 January 2022 the MIA replied: “the information requires additional processing, the review period has been extended” — in other words, an attempt to formally “stonewall” the case.
🗝 What this means — and why this is a trigger
Biletskyi’s story shows a collision between the court and the MIA. And the Servant of the People faction — from which, incidentally, the minister came — is applying pressure on its own MIA. This is a complex construction in which Biletskyi is a figure for whom deputies from the ruling party fought. In other words, he has political cover at the highest level. 6 MPs of Servant of the People from various constituencies in Zhytomyr region — a rare case of a consolidated regional position of the faction. It is necessary to check which of them are still in politics, how they voted in the Verkhovna Rada, and whether they have other “protégés” among the Service Centers of Ukraine. This elevates the case from a local conflict to a level of corporate support for Biletskyi by the ruling party.
⚙️ Question: dismissed for what? Biletskyi was dismissed from the position due to reorganization of the structure and liquidation of the legal entity. The official basis for dismissal was an order of the Main Service Center of the MIA, issued (termination of civil service at the initiative of the appointing authority in case of liquidation or reorganization of a state body).
However, the court during consideration of case No. 240/16125/21 found this dismissal unlawful for the following reasons:
✔️De facto succession: The court determined that despite the change of name and liquidation of the previous legal entity, the newly created body fully took over the functions and tasks of the old service center.
✔️Procedure violations: Legislation obliged the employer to offer the employee another equivalent or lower position in the new (reorganized) body if such a position was vacant. This was not done.
✔️Artificial liquidation: The court concluded that the “liquidation” was formal and was used to replace the manager, since the scope of powers and the very nature of the institution’s work in Zhytomyr did not change.
An especially ironic fact — in 2021 (the same year of judicial reinstatement) Biletskyi defended a master’s thesis on “Strategic Directions of Anti-Corruption Policy” at Polissia National University. So the person whose reinstatement sparked a political battle officially presents himself in parallel as an expert on anti-corruption policy.
Head of the accreditation commission — control over driving schools
Biletskyi is the head of the accreditation commission. This means direct influence over: accreditation of driving schools, issuance and revocation of licenses. His boss Kozakov personally took licenses away from driving schools to cover himself and Haidu. Now Biletskyi is on Kozakov’s team — and head of that same commission. This is not a coincidence. This is a consolidation of power over the segment of “selling driving licenses through driving schools” in a single set of hands.
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