{"id":9606,"date":"2021-03-27T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T09:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9606"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:11:32","slug":"zelensky-dismisses-tupytsky-from-the-post-of-ccu-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9606","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Dismisses Tupytsky from the Post of CCU Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky fired Oleksandr Tupytskyi as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 27, 2021 \u2013 Local News<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Zelensky&#8217;s decision revoked the decree <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9350\">appointing<\/a> Tupytsky a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which was signed in May 2013 by then-President Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he revoked the decree of September 17, 2013, on the appointment of another judge of the CCU &#8211; Alexander Kasminin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decree of President Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9350\">Zelensky<\/a> states that the decision was made because &#8220;certain judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, appointed by Viktor Yanukovych, continue to exercise their powers, pose a threat to state independence and national security of Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decree comes into force on the day of its publication &#8211; on March 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On December 29 last year Zelensky by decree <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9460\">dismissed<\/a> the chairman of the Constitutional Court for a period of two months. Among the reasons &#8211; Tupytsky is not only involved in one of the criminal cases but also, according to the DBR, gave false testimony and tried to bribe a witness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Constitutional Court did not come to the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office for interrogation, and after the Supreme Court refused to appeal the presidential decree, he went on vacation to a five-star hotel in the UAE. And after that, I tried to get to work several times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new judge of the CCU, Viktor Kichun, appointed by the Verkhovna Rada, took the oath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=9542\">An Extraordinary Meeting of the Verkhovna Rada To Schedule Elections in Kharkiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky fired Oleksandr Tupytskyi as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; March 27, 2021 \u2013 Local News \u00a0 It should be noted that Zelensky&#8217;s decision revoked the decree appointing Tupytsky a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which was signed in May 2013 by then-President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2795,2045,2793,1387,5081,1000,1058],"class_list":["post-9606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-alexander-tupitsky","tag-constitutional-court","tag-ksu","tag-presidential-decree","tag-scandalous-decision-of-the-ccu","tag-ukraine-news","tag-vladimir-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}