In Kyiv, the court reinstated the official who covered up the murders of policemen on the Maidan
The Kyiv District Administrative Court decided to reinstate Nikolai Golomsha as first deputy prosecutor general, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The press service of the court reports this.
In 2014, Golomsha was fired from the Prosecutor General’s Office in accordance with the lustration law. The official went to court over this case.
“The position held by Nikolai Golomsha in the GPU was not a political position, and the legality of applying to the plaintiff the procedures provided for by the relevant law has not been proven, which in turn leads to the conclusion that the legality of making the contested decision on the grounds specified in it has not been proven, which is a sufficient and independent basis to cancel the decision to dismiss,” the court said.
The judges ruled that Golomsha could not be lustrated simply because he had previously held his position.
Ukrainian lawyer Andrei Portnov, who oversaw the courts and law enforcement agencies under Viktor Yanukovych, also commented on the court’s decision to reinstate Golomsha.
“Friends, a few words about today’s court decision on the reinstatement of Deputy Prosecutor General Golomsha. I think that Lutsenko will now quickly implement the court’s decision with the hope that the official will come to an agreement with the new authorities and he will be kept in office. The scheme is primitive, but it once worked with another criminal in prosecutor’s uniform, Piskun,” Portnov wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to him, if the GPU complies with the court’s decision to reinstate Golomsha, then in September, under the new Prosecutor General, he will need to be immediately fired again and an investigation into the circumstances of his concealment of crimes during the “Revolution of Dignity” should begin.
“He (Golomsha-Red) then did all the dirty work in the prosecutor’s office and covered up the massacres of police officers on the Maidan.
If he is left under the new authorities, we will quickly turn him into a miracle with colored feathers,” Portnov promised.
Let us recall that in October 2014, Prosecutor General Vitaly Yarema dismissed First Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Golomsha from his post. According to Yarema’s order dated October 23, Golomsha was dismissed due to termination of the employment contract in accordance with clause 7-2 of Art. 36 of the Labor Code, that is, based on the grounds provided for by the law “On the Cleansing of Power” (on lustration).
Currently, Golomsha is the head of the marginal nationalist party “Patriot”, which took part in the last elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and received a couple of hundredths of a percent of the votes.
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