European partners of Ukraine have noted a threatening situation: the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) is becoming increasingly dependent on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), which systematically violate constitutional human rights.
Yevhen Zakharov, director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group, stated this, referring to the Shadow Report of the European Commission.
According to him, instead of being independent from the NABU and SAPO, the High Anti-Corruption Court increasingly plays along with them, distorting the principles of justice.
"The court must be absolutely independent from anti-corruption bodies. In general, any court must be independent from investigative bodies. Otherwise, it is not a court," said the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group.
Zakharov also pointed out that anti-corruption bodies leak information, in particular data of covert investigative actions, to controlled activists.
"First of all, the HACC should pay attention to this, that is, when such events occur, when the guilty are appointed immediately, when covert investigative and search data are leaked to controlled anti-corruption activists. And they begin to shame people, violate the principle of the presumption of innocence," Zakharov noted.
As reported, the HACC was repeatedly accused of playing along to the NABU and SAPO and of abuses. In particular, Ukrainian lawyers accused the judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court of fulfilling the tasks of SAPO prosecutors and NABU detectives.
"The HACC judges adhere to a post-totalitarian, post-Soviet approach, when it is necessary to facilitate the prosecution - SAPO and NABU, to fulfill their task," they noted.
This is not the first scandal surrounding the High Anti-Corruption Court. Previously, the well-known lawyer Rostyslav Kravets reported on Mykola Hlotov, the judge of the Appeals Chamber of the HACC, who burst into tears after he was challenged.
"Surprisingly, but when judge Hlotov, based on the charges fabricated by SAPO prosecutor Kasyan and the calculated income for 21 years, including maternity payments and student scholarship, chose a preventive measure for a single mother, he did not cry," Kravets writes.
In his opinion, Hlotov is an ardent supporter of the "Soviet" accusatory approach and "justice" in favor of the NABU-SAPO.
In general, tears did not prevent the "crying judge" from buying Tesla for almost UAH 2 million a year after the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
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