Government officials once again failed to provide the Supreme Court with documents on sanctions against Poroshenko

The Supreme Court is considering Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit against President Volodymyr Zelensky on the illegality of the Decree on Sanctions. In the courtroom are people’s deputies of Ukraine, media representatives, and representatives of diplomatic missions.

Government representatives have again failed to provide the Supreme Court with all the documents on the introduction 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 current Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko signed a submission to the National Security and Defense Council regarding sanctions against Poroshenko. According to representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy in the Supreme Court, such a protocol is missing.

Earlier, Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko reported in the Verkhovna Rada that the sanctions were adopted, among other things, on the basis of the decision of the working group on sanctions policy.

“In fact, all processes taking place in the government are taking place in accordance with the law on sanctions policy. We have an interdepartmental working group on sanctions policy, which determines the appropriateness of introducing certain sanctions on the government in accordance with the submission of the Security Service of Ukraine or other bodies,” said Svyrydenko, who was the Minister of Economy at the time.

On July 23, the panel of judges of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court, considering Petro Poroshenko’s claim against President Zelensky to cancel the Decree on sanctions, accepted the request from the National Security and Defense Council, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy to provide all documents related to the decision-making process on sanctions. The deadline for submitting documents is August 11.

During the previous hearing, it also emerged that President Zelensky’s representative in court could not answer the question of how the decision-making process took place, since she did not participate in the NSDC meeting. She also stated that the sanctions were applied for the purpose of discipline, to prevent potential threats to national interests from the fifth President.

“The first hearing was on April 17, and every month there was only one hearing. 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 nevertheless began to discuss the case in essence. It could be anything,” lawyer Ilya Novikov told reporters.

Let us recall that on July 17, the next session of the Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court began on Petro Poroshenko’s claim regarding illegal sanctions .

Subsequently, Petro Poroshenko, during his speech in the Supreme Court, where his claim regarding the illegal Decree on sanctions is being considered, stated that the government is entangled in its own lies .

As lawyer Igor Golovan noted at the end of the hearing, the authorities are artificially delaying the trial in the Supreme Court on Petro Poroshenko’s claim regarding illegal sanctions .

Earlier , the Financial Times in its article “Volodymyr Zelensky accused of worsening authoritarian regime after anti-corruption raids” listed cases that testify to the rollback of democracy in Ukraine .