Oleh Posternak: HACC judges, HCJ and HQCJ members with salaries of hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, despite fraud with official housing and corruption, urgently demand preferential housing loans

Did you know that a regular consumer loan for a military man is now a very complicated story: 9 out of 10 banks will stupidly refuse a military man, because they are not sure that he will survive.

But some elite judges will survive! They will receive an apartment for free. Already this year. And then they will also take a preferential loan.

So, the High Council of Justice (HCJ) publicly appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers to include its representatives and other dignitaries in the list of beneficiaries who are entitled to mortgage lending at a fixed annual rate of 3% in hryvnia.

Attention! It is not just a few people who will take money from the state. This is an army of the most elite judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC), members of the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ), employees of their secretariats, members of their families, etc. An army! Millions of state money.

"Available mortgage lending and preferential mortgages for members of the HCJ, the HQCJ, the Supreme Court, etc., whose salaries are UAH 300,000-400,000 per month? It looks like a mockery.

This is something similar to the tender to find a new head of Naftogaz for UAH 4.5 million. Another surrealism," writes lawyer and former head of the court Pavlo Vovk on his channel.

But most of all, as always, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC), whose name seems to soon be the “High Corruption.”

These are the very judges of the HACC who have salaries of hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, luxury apartments and cars, have trips to resorts and "training" abroad several times a year... And in 2025, the HACC plans to spend about UAH 60 million on the purchase of official apartments. That's right! And this is despite the recent revelations of fraud with official apartments in this very court.

Bihus.info recently reported on the mass privatization of official housing by judges and police officers in its investigation. But, surprisingly, they have not heard anything about scandals with the HACC.

"Is there anything about official housing for "our anti-corruption" in this investigation of the Bihus and why?" asks the well-known lawyer Oleh Shram, head of the Public Control Council NGO, manager of the Right to Protection Bar Association.

"While the displaced are huddled on 13 square meters in modular towns, the "right people" are getting new square meters without waiting in line," he notes.

And indeed, there is a lot of interesting behind the scenes. For example, how the judge of the HACC Markiyan Halabala illegally received official housing, despite the fact that he was provided with housing in Kyiv. Judge Vitalii Kryklyvyi was caught in fraud with official housing with the help of his wife, who is also a judge of the HACC.

The "need" of the HACC judges, who allegedly have nowhere to live, is a separate story. The scandalously known HACC judge Kateryna Sikora, who, with the help of colleagues in another court, "extorted" half a million hryvnias in compensation from the state, is being caught on the signs of illicit enrichment. According to the investigation, she provided false information about a number of cars, apartments (!), and parking lots that she and her family got during the active administration of justice.

Another judge of the HACC, Valeria Chorna, became the owner of an elite car with a salon - a BMW X6 at the height of the war. And her colleague, judge of the HACC Mykola Hlotov, bought a Tesla for almost UAH 2 million a year after the start of the full-scale invasion.

And such judges, without delay, take housing for free. Square meters are never superfluous. Even if you have a penthouse in the center of Kyiv or a house outside the city and you are not going to live in an official one. The state pays anyway.

But isn't this housing needed more by the military and people who lost everything due to hostilities, rather than by elected judges of the HACC and supervisory bodies like the High Council of Justice, whose inefficiency and bias, lawlessness, and corruption are being shouted about at almost every turn?