Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) Oleksandr Novikov has drawn up two administrative offense reports against the head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Oleksandr Tupytsky in relation to a conflict of interest due to an undeclared land plot in Crimea.
“As early as Oct. 1, 2020, almost a month before the adoption of the well-known decision of the Constitutional Court, NACP sent a request to Oleksandr Tupytsky with a request to explain why he did not indicate in the declaration his land plot in Crimea, which he received under the laws of the occupying state. The NACP should have presented the judge with an administrative offense report for such a violation. On Oct. 27, the judge voted in favor of the decision, which, in particular, recognized the NACP’s right to draw up administrative offense reports as unconstitutional.
He said that after the Verkhovna Rada restored the aforementioned right of the NACP, two administrative offense reports were drawn up on Tupytsky: regarding the deliberate failure to indicate the land plots in the declaration and about the conflict of interest.
Novikov said that since Dec. 31, 2020, amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses have been in effect, according to which only the head of the NACP or his deputies can draw up a protocol on such administrative offenses if committed by a judge.
It is noted that during a full check of the declaration, the NACP revealed that there is a power of attorney in the Unified Register of Powers of Attorney, which on Nov. 4, 2018. Tupytsky authorized a certain person to be his representative as the owner of several objects.
“Among them is a land plot located in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Information about this land plot is absent in the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre. Tupytsky received the specified land plot for actual use in violation of the law of Ukraine on ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens and the legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
Thus, the delivered protocols will be submitted to the court.
