One vote lacked: the judge of the Supreme Court of Bohdan Lviv could not be released for the passport of the Russian Federation

21 out of 43 judges of the Cassation State Court voted for his dismissal of Lviv. Voting was anonymous. The judge of the Economic Court of Ukraine voted against the dismissal of Bohdan Lviv from office during today's meeting. About it reports the Center for Combating Corruption. 39 judges out of 40 attendees took part in the secret ballot. 21 persons voted in favor of Lviv's dismissal of Lviv. One voice lacked for a positive solution.

The decision is considered to be made when the majority of the total number of judges, ie 43 people, votes. "As for Lviv, its fate has already been decided: the SBU confirmed the existence of a Russian passport. While only the Cassation State Court sinks, but the entire Supreme Court can imitate this ship, unless there are appropriate steps of the President of the Court - Vsevolod Knyazev," - said in a statement of the Center counteraction to corruption.

On September 15, investigators of the Project "Schemes" published information that the 55-year-old chairman of the cassation economic court of Ukraine Bohdan Lviv has a citizenship of Russia. As it became known, he received a Russian passport in 1999, although at that time he had already worked as a judge in Ukraine. In 2012, Lviv updated the Russian document in connection with the 45th anniversary. The wife of a judge who was born in Moscow also has Russian citizenship, investigators say.

On September 16, the judge complained to the authors of the investigation with the State Bureau of Investigation and the Security Service of Ukraine. At the same time, he specified that the Russian authorities are indeed keeping records of his data on Russian citizenship. However, according to his version, these data were forged for discrediting. Today, Lviv posted on Facebook information that has passed the polygraph to prove its innocence. "I passed the polygraph.

There was no need for me personally. I am a citizen exclusively of Ukraine," - he stressed. However, the Security Service of Ukraine confirmed that Lviv has Russian citizenship. The Chairman of the Board of the Analytical Foundation of Dejure, Mikhail Zernakov, stressed that the high -ranking Ukrainian judge was not released, even though the SBU had confirmed the presence of Russian citizenship today.

"That is, most of the Supreme Court's commercial judges are fully arranged as a corrupt Russian head," Zhernakov wrote on Facebook. On September 30, a proposal for the deprivation of Bohdan Lviv citizenship of Ukraine appeared on the website of the electronic petitions of the President of Ukraine if he has a Russian passport. The author of the initiative was Alina Mikhailov. In four days, more than 6,000 Ukrainians were signed under the petition.