The confrontation saga between ex-Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk and ex-Economy Minister Timofiy Mylovanov continues.
Danyliuk’s lawyers from the Miller firm announced on Aug. 5 that they had filed a lawsuit over his disqualification from the competition for the Economic Security Bureau director. Mylovanov heads the selection committee for the new agency that was created to investigate economic and white-collar crimes other than those within the jurisdiction of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
Danyliuk was excluded as a contender on July 29 because he didn’t submit his Indiana University MBA for a nostrification procedure to the Ministry of Education, which issues a formal recognition of foreign diplomas, according to Mylovanov.
But Danyliuk’s lawyers said that the disqualification was illegal because the nostrification certificate was not in the list of required documents for candidates to submit.
“The competition for the director position of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine should be suspended due to violation of procedures,” the law firm wrote on Facebook.
The lawyers filed a lawsuit in the Kyiv Administrative District Court. The court has to open a case until Aug. 8, according to the lawyers.
The move comes a week after Danyliuk and Mylovanov took their confrontation to an actual fight at Danyliuk’s birthday party on July 31. Danyliuk allegedly punched Mylovanov there.
The two exchanged insults on Facebook after that. Danyliuk accused Mylovanov, now adviser of President Volodymyr Zelensky, of acting on Zelensky’s orders. Mylovanov said that Danyliuk is “not a reformer, but a ‘gopnik’ (derogatory slang word) and a poser.” Mylovanov accused Danyliuk of being “no different from (ex-President Viktor) Yanukovych or (billionaire oligarch Ihor) Kolomoisky” and called him “unfit for the office of the head of the Bureau of Economic Security.”
