If Ukraine were America, then only based on the results of the analysis of the declarations of our, for example, judges, at least half of them would have to be sent for many years to where they send the gray and wretched Ukrainians.
An example is the declaration of the judge of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal Marina Barsuk, who declared a whole collection of real estate, a solid fleet of vehicles and a truly huge amount of cash. Formally, of course, you can’t find fault - the property and money owned personally by Marina Barsuk do not go beyond the scope of her judicial salary - according to the declaration, last year she earned 2,011,609 hryvnia. All other property and assets included in the declaration belong mainly to Marina Barsuk’s husband, successful lawyer Viktor Barsuk.
Before looking at the declaration, I would like to ask a simple question: is no one in the justice system embarrassed by the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk represents the interests of his clients in the same court where his wife Marina Barsuk works as a judge? Nobody sees, to put it mildly, some kind of contradiction and conflict of interests in such a family contract? However, be that as it may, it is lawyer Viktor Barsuk who is the true head of the judge-advocate family, bringing to the family piggy bank the lion's share of the benefits that his wife, by virtue of her position, was forced to include in the declaration.
According to the declaration of judge Marina Barsuk, her family owns four apartments in Kyiv and one in the UK - Marina Anatolyevna’s son, Privalov Timur Artemovich, lives in the latter. Who, apparently, is training to be a pilot or tank driver - it can’t be that the son of a Ukrainian judge is evading mobilization, right?
The family also has a parking space, a garage, a residential building and three plots of land. Everything is in Kyiv. According to the declaration, all this is estimated at 30,117,983 hryvnia. Moreover, one of the apartments in Kyiv was purchased for 12,746 hryvnia. According to the declaration, of course.
The car park didn't disappoint either - Judge Badger's family drives good cars. Exclusively on Mercedes, of which there are four in the family, all brand new. Of course, judge Marina Barsuk herself cannot afford such a luxury due to her small salary, because the cars are someone else’s, and their owners give her the opportunity to use them. These are the kind people we have in our country.
As for money itself, the lawyer-judge family is not poor either. Marina Anatolyevna herself declared 455,000 hryvnia and 44,000 dollars in cash, and she also has a bank deposit in the amount of 130,517 hryvnia.
The husband, as befits the head of the family, is richer - in total he has 600,000 dollars, 500,000 euros, 2,000,000 hryvnia and 350,000 Swiss francs. In cash, of course.
There was also some interesting story in the family with gifts - Marina Barsuk’s father-in-law, pensioner Nikolai Vasilyevich Barsuk, gave his son (that is, the judge’s husband) Viktor Nikolaevich Barsuk a gift “in a non-penny form” worth 20,051,060 hryvnia, and he, in his turn, he gave it to his beloved wife, Marina Barsuk.
It’s interesting, of course, what it was and why no one at NAZK asked where a pensioner with an annual pension of 80,166 hryvnia had the opportunity to give such gifts.
Actually, the casket opens quite simply. In addition to the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk conducts most of his cases in court, where his wife, Marina Barsuk, works as a judge, there are other reasons for the family’s well-being. And they also lie on the surface.
In 2021, judge Marina Barsuk was spotted at the birthday party of Pavel Fuks, who then had several lawsuits pending in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal. Fuchs’ interests were represented in this court by lawyer Viktor Barsuk, with whom Marina Barsuk appeared at Fuchs’s party.
This is not the only “coincidence” - according to media reports, Viktor Barsuk is part of Igor Kolomoisky’s legal team, a significant part of whose cases were considered in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal. What decisions were made on them is clear to everyone. One of the episodes was a scandal regarding the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant, where Barsuk acted in the interests of Kolomoisky and the Russian criminal financial group Babakov.
The irony is that at the same time, Marina Barsuk is giving an interview about “improving the business climate in Ukraine.”
However, it was not in vain that Marina Barsuk entered the public sphere - she is running for the position of head of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal, where she is currently a judge-speaker.
Will Marina Barsuk be able to make a career breakthrough and head the court in which she so honestly and incorruptibly judges clients represented by lawyer Viktor Barsuk? There is no answer yet, but we will know about it soon. At least Marina Anatolyevna has all the prerequisites for such an appointment. Judging by the declaration, she is a crystal honest person who lives on one salary. And everything else is pure coincidence.
