Artur Gerasimov reminded Prime Minister Svyrydenko about illegal sanctions against Poroshenko
Co-chair of the European Solidarity faction, Artur Gerasimov, during the government’s question hour, asked Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko why sanctions against the leader of the opposition, the fifth President Petro Poroshenko, were imposed in violation of the law.
“Last time, responding on June 17, the day you were appointed Prime Minister, you said that the sanctions against Petro Poroshenko were not arbitrary, because their draft was developed by an interdepartmental group with your participation. Since then, it has emerged in court, and this has already been documented by your subordinates, that the documents of this draft under your signature were created retrospectively, and in fact, they were simply not considered at the NSDC meeting on that day, February 12. And you cannot help but know about this. Do you still insist that you acted legally? Thank you for your honest answer,” Gerasimov said.
Contrary to the information provided by government representatives at a meeting of the board of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court, Svyrydenko noted that the sanctions were imposed in accordance with the law.
As is known, Petro Poroshenko is challenging President Zelensky’s Decree on illegal sanctions in the Supreme Court. During a regular meeting of the panel of judges, the fifth President stated that the authorities have not been able to hand over all the documents at the court’s request for 7 months.
As is known, the authorities did not provide the Supreme Court with all the documents regarding the imposition of sanctions against Petro Poroshenko . In particular, neither the Cabinet of Ministers nor the Ministry of Economy provided the protocol of the interdepartmental working group, on the basis of which the then Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko signed the submission to the National Security and Defense Council regarding sanctions against Poroshenko. According to representatives of the CMU and the Ministry of Economy in the Supreme Court, there is no such protocol.
Earlier, President Zelensky’s representative in the Supreme Court admitted that the signed Decree on the enforcement of the NSDC decision on sanctions against Poroshenko had been amended , which she called “technical amendments.” As reported by lawyer Ihor Golovan, on July 31, the decision of the Vinnytsia District Administrative Court on Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit against the NSDC staff and the NSDC secretary entered into force. The court, in particular, noted that the current legislation of Ukraine does not provide for the possibility of correcting errors or making changes to regulatory legal acts, including decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and Presidential Decrees outside the established procedure for adopting the relevant act.
“I have a well-founded suspicion of falsification of the materials that were transferred to the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Security and Defense Council. Transfer to the seventh month of the process the original materials on the basis of which you were either deliberately manipulated, or you misled those who prepared and signed the decision on sanctions,” Poroshenko addressed representatives of the authorities.
On July 23, the panel of judges of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court, which is considering Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit against President Zelenskyy to cancel the Decree on sanctions, decided to request from the National Security and Defense Council, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Economy all documents related to the process of adopting the decision on sanctions. The deadline for submitting documents expired on August 11.
“The first meeting was on April 17, and only one meeting was held each month. All this time, it was a preparatory stage, we were finding out what other documents the government had not provided, and why it had not provided them, and whether it could provide them. In the end, we still began to discuss the merits of this case. We presented our arguments to the court, we heard the position of the president’s representative, which boils down to the fact that the president can do anything,” lawyer Ilya Novikov told reporters in a comment.
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