Korban case judge involved in harassment of Automaidan activists

Date: 27 December 2015
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The judge should have been already dismissed for violation of the oath but he was hospitalized.

Lawyer of the Automaidan activists Roman Maselko posted this on his Facebook page.

According to him, during the Maidan protests, judge of the Dniprovsky District Court in Kyiv Mykola Chaus deprived Kostiantyn Velyschev of his driver’s license for six months although he did not go to the residence of former president Viktor Yanukovych in Mezhyhiria on that day and his car was in the garage all day long. On the same day, the judge deprived another driver, who intended to go to Mezhyhirya, of driver’s license.

It is an interesting fact that the judge never deprived people of driver’s license when considering the other cases under Article 122-2 not linked with the Maidan protests. And here he sentenced two people for maximum sanction without proper evidence. It is clear for me that Chaus like more than 120 other judges performed the instruction on the harassment of the Automaidan activists and delivered a deliberately unlawful judgment which is serious crime,” Roman Maselko noted.

Following the complaint of the lawyers, the ad-hoc commission studied the judge’s decision on driver’s license revocation and decided that he had violated the oath and must be dismissed. The same conclusion was made by the High Council of Justice, which was going to approve the final decision on Mykola Chaus on December 17. However, the judge did not appear as he had been hospitalized since December 14. His lawyer said that the disease was serious and the issue should be considered after the New Year.

Roman Maselko is surprised by the fact that the judge has recovered so quickly and is already considering a high-profile case. The lawyer also reminds that the former regime liked to use the judges “in limbo” for personal use.

As a reminder, judge Chaus ruled to continue the hearing on change of preventive measure for Hennadiy Korban, businessman, ally of ex-governor of Dnipropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky in camera. Earlier, Korban, who had been under house arrest, was forcibly taken from Dnipropetrovsk to Kyiv for choosing preventive measure and holding the medical examination in the Amosov Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. The businessman is accused of creating an organized criminal group, abducting people, and embezzling funds from the charity fund. The lawyers of Korban reject these allegations.

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