The judge of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, Pavel Vovka, has been temporarily suspended from judicial duties. This decision was adopted by the Third Disciplinary Chamber.
About this informs The Supreme Council of Justice.
“The judge of the District Administrative Court of the city of Kyiv Vovka Pavel Vyacheslavovich was temporarily suspended from the administration of justice based on the decision of the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the High Council of Justice“, the VRP reported.
On November 13, the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the High Council of Justice passed a decision to bring the judge to disciplinary responsibility and impose disciplinary sanctions in the form of a motion for his dismissal from office.
“The term of suspension of a judge from the court lasts until the High Council of the court adopts a decision on his dismissal or annulment of the decision of the Disciplinary Chamber“, the VRP reported.
What is Judge Vovk known for?
Pavlo Vovk was educated at the Law Academy named after Yaroslav the Wise, graduating in 2000 with a degree in “law”. After that, he worked as a senior assistant prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office of the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv, where from
Vovk later held the position of deputy general director of the legal company Rada, and was also an assistant to People’s Deputy Serhiy Kivalov, who belonged to the Party of Regions. In 2007, he became a judge of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, and already in 2010 he headed this court. The Supreme Council of Justice appointed him to the post of chairman of the OASK.
In 2017, Vovk tried to pass the selection to the Supreme Court of Ukraine, but received a negative opinion of the commission.
Note that in 2020, journalists presented a two-part investigative film “Counseling Room” about Pavel Vovka’s connections with officials and top officials – Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, former head of the OP Andriy Bohdan. The investigation was created on the basis of NABU tapes, which were obtained by journalists.
The case of Vovka
In the declaration for 2016, submitted in March 2017, Pavlo Vovk left only one apartment in Kyiv as his property. However, already in May of the same year, NABU searched him in the country house of his ex-wife, who was not in the declaration, was added
After the searches, the Lviv court seized part of the property: documents, $20,000, coin prices, and three gold bars of 50 grams each. Protest already in October 2017, the Court of Appeal of the Kyiv region canceled the seizure, explaining its decision by the fact that the seizure of property should have been imposed on
Subsequently, on July 17, 2020, Vovka was convicted of creating a criminal organization and seizing power. As the head of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, he, together with other judges of this court, became considered in making legal decisions, and Vovk himself – in seizing control over the judicial system.
Wolf strongly denied the allegations, saying he was on vacation at the time of the check and calling the records on which the investigation was based falsified.
In addition, the media reported that Vovk traveled abroad several times after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which raised additional questions about his story
