Kyiv's anti-corruption court gets its first judges
A presidential decree formed the first bench of the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine.
What did it mean for Ukraine's anti-corruption architecture when the High Anti-Corruption Court finally acquired judges? On 11 April 2019, President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree appointing 38 judges to the court, forming its first composition.
The decree turned an institution that had existed on paper into one with a bench. For the opinion pages of a review focused on reform, the appointment was a concrete step: the court now had the judges it needed to be assembled as a working body.
Elsewhere in the justice system, three days earlier, on 8 April 2019, the Kirovskyi court in Dnipro sentenced Oleksandr Puhachov to life imprisonment with confiscation of property. He had been charged over the killing of police officers in Dnipro on 25 September 2016.
