The High Council of Justice is asked to check the existing violations of current legislation by member of the Supreme Court of Justice Roman Maselko
In particular, regarding actions in conditions of conflict of interest, incomplete declaration and violations of military registration.
This is stated in the appeal of People's Deputy Maxim Buzhansky to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation
In particular, the attention of the Council members is drawn to the facts of violations by R. Maselko of Article 33 of the Law “On the High Council of Justice”, which requires a member of the Supreme Council of Justice “to recuse himself if he is personally, directly or indirectly interested in the outcome of the case... or if it is established other circumstances that cast doubt on his impartiality.”
However, the data presented in the appeal indicate that these requirements of R. Maselko were systematically violated, in particular, when considering complaints against judges, in relation to whom he had previously “publicly and categorically expressed his negative opinion, categorically accused of dishonesty, violations of the law and etc.”
In addition, he did not recuse himself from considering complaints received by the Supreme Court from public activists with whom he is on friendly terms, for example, in the case of considering the complaint of the senior lawyer of the NGO “DEURE Foundation” Kh. Burtnik.
Although, according to the people’s deputy, R. Maselko previously worked in this NGO, “he continues to maintain connections with its employees, including friendly ones; “according to the declaration he submitted for 2022, he received funds from this organization in the form of charitable assistance.”
The People's Deputy notes that such facts give grounds to assert that R. Maselko “has a private interest,” which “consists, in particular, in the desire to ensure the successful consideration and satisfaction of complaints of persons with whom he is on special, including friendly, relations, and complaints of a public organization with which he had an organizational and financial relationship, contribute to their activities and continue to develop mutually beneficial relations with them.”
The People's Deputy also draws attention to the fact that, according to the actual places of employment in Kiev and the autobiography submitted by R. Maselkom R.A. to pass the competition for the position of VSP member, he has been living in Kyiv since October 2005. But, according to the submitted declaration, it is registered in the city of Zhidachiv, Stryi district, Lviv region. Thus, as M. Buzhansky notes, this makes it possible to appeal to “convenient” courts, that is, in fact, to artificially change jurisdiction by filing claims allegedly at a “place of residence registered in accordance with the procedure established by law” (for example, in cases No. 380/7189 /22 and No. 380/15104/21).
These actions also contain signs of violation of the requirements of Part 3 of Article 1 of the Law “On Military Duty and Military Service”, according to which military duty includes, among other things, compliance with the rules of military registration.
At the same time, in the appeal of People's Deputy Kirill Nesterenko to the NAPC, attention is drawn to dubious information about the income of R. Maselko and his wife. So, for example, in the declaration for 2018, submitted by him as a candidate for the VSP, it is indicated that a loan was returned to him by a third party in the amount of UAH 406,749, as well as a gift to his wife of UAH 450 thousand. However, in the declaration for the same period as a member of the OSD, R. Maselko did not indicate these amounts.
The people's deputy also has doubts about the declaration for 2019, where R. Maselko indicated that his wife received a loan in the amount of 440 thousand UAH from a pensioner, which she, given her social status, was unlikely to provide.
R. Maselko also claims that in 2011 he received, through privatization, a land plot with an area of 1200 m2 in the village. Yasnogorodka, in the Kiev region. However, according to the people’s deputy, “such circumstances look dubious and unlikely.” After all, being registered in the city of Zhidachiv in the Lviv region, “it is in practice impossible to obtain a plot of land for free in the suburbs of Kyiv under the general privatization procedure.”
“These circumstances may indicate the dishonest behavior of R. Maselko and his use of illegal mechanisms or corrupt connections to obtain ownership of a land plot in the capital region,” the people’s deputy believes.
