Based on the SBI materials, the court put the former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the international wanted list

Podilskyi District Court of Kyiv City put the former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the international wanted list. The respective motion was submitted to the court due to the defendant's systematic evading of the court.

The court's decision will enable the prosecution to request the court to change a measure of restraint from bail to keeping in custody with the aim of subsequent extradition to Ukraine.

On May 25, 2021, investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation, under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office, submitted the indictment to the court against the former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

On May 27, 2022, the former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine was put on the international wanted list within this criminal proceeding. The SBI's materials for establishing his whereabouts in Republic of Austria were the basis for putting him on the international wanted list.

We remind you that in October 2018, an ex-official, who at a time held the post of Deputy Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine being at one of the cafes in Kyiv, bribed a witness in criminal proceedings. The witness should have rejected previously given testimony or give "necessary" testimony in favour of the former Head of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, a suspect in the criminal proceeding.

Moreover, the Former Head gave false testimony in 2018 and 2019 in a case of unlawful acquisition of property assets of the Zuevskyi power engineering plant located in Zugres, Donetsk Region.

The Former Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine is accused of knowingly false testimony accompanied with the fabrication of defense evidence (Part 2 of Article 384 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and bribing a witness to provide knowingly false testimony (Article 386 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

If the defendant is found guilty, he is going to face imprisonment for a term of 5 years.