Maselko, who is also a lawyer for EuroMaidan protesters, said on July 13 that AutoMaidan was launching the PROSUD project, which aims to analyze judges’ property and professional performance.
Maselko has also called for firing and prosecuting judges who issued unlawful rulings against demonstrators in the EuroMaidan Revolution that ousted Viktor Yanukovych as president in 2014.
He has warned that the implementation of judicial reform legislation signed by President Petro Poroshenko on July 13 could keep corrupt judges in their jobs and maintain presidential influence over the courts.
Poroshenko has huge influence over the High Council of Justice, which is entrusted with carrying out the reform, he said.
Moreover, many corrupt and dishonest judges may keep their jobs due to flaws in the vetting process and a lack of civil society control over the reform, Maselko argued.
Anti-reformer of the week: Anatoly Matios
Anatoly Matios, the chief military prosecutor, has defended one of his subordinates – Konstyantyn Kulik, the chief prosecutor of the war zone.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine suspects Kulik, who owns luxury cars and real estate, of unlawful enrichment of Hr 2 million ($80,000). Kulik has also been lambasted for ties to pro-Russian separatist leader Yevgeny Zhilin, which he admits. Ukrainian courts ruled against putting Kulik under house arrest on July 5, and reinstated him in his job on July 13, which critics have seen as a triumph of corruption.
Critics also see the recent transfer of graft cases against ex-Tax and Revenue Minister Oleksandr Klymenko and tycoon Serhiy Kurchenko to Kulik and Volodymyr Zherbitsky, a deputy of Matios, as an effort to protect suspects close to the government. Matios, Kulik and Zherbitsky, who has been accused of having ties to Klymenko, deny all of the accusations.
Another subordinate of Matios, Maxim Yakubovsky, has been slammed for owning luxury property and links to pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. The office of Matios, an ex-top official in disgraced ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s administration, has also been accused of fabricating numerous criminal cases against volunteer fighters.
