The High Council of Justice unanimously refused to temporarily remove from office the head of the District Administrative Court of Kiev Pavel Vovk.

This was announced on Facebook by the head of the Anti-Corruption Center Vitaly Shabunin.

Vovka and the UASK judges are suspected of creating a criminal organization of 12 people, the purpose of which was to seize state power by establishing control over the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine (VKKSU), the High Council of Justice (SCJ) and creating artificial obstacles in their work.

Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova filed a petition to remove judges from judicial duties, since a criminal case was opened against them..

During the meeting, journalists were not allowed into the premises of the VSP, explaining this by the lack of free seats and quarantine. There was also no broadcast of the meeting: the SCJ said that it was possible only at the request and agreement of the parties.

During the meeting, the SCJ refused to disqualify council member Pavel Grechkovsky, who appears on the "

On July 17, NABU announced that it was conducting searches in the OASK and handed suspicion to its head - Vovk, his deputy and five other judges. Vovk himself denied the statement that he had been handed the suspicion.

On the same day, the bureau published transcripts of telephone conversations of the head of the OASK, at which the seizure of state power was planned, and on July 21, all episodes on the OASK were collected.

On August 4, the Pechersk court ordered the Prosecutor General to withdraw the case of Vovk and the OASK judges from NABU and transfer it to another law enforcement agency. LIGABiznesInform informs about it.