Zelenskyi convenes National Security and Defense Council to resolve constitutional crisis
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council to resolve the Constitutional Court issue.
UP reports, referring to the comment of the President's press secretary, Yulia Mendel.
"Today (December 29 – ed.), President Volodymyr Zelenskyi convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, which addressed the issues of the constitutional crisis," Mendel said.
She said that the details of the meeting would be officially announced later. The meeting is now over.
In addition, Serhii Leshchenko, a member of Ukrzaliznytsia's supervisory board, said that the situation regarding the head of the Constitutional Court, Oleksandr Tupytskyi, had been considered at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. According to Leshchenko, President Zelenskyi will issue a decree removing Tupytskyi from the post for a month under Article 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.
To recap, the CCU head, Oleksandr Tupytskyi, is suspected of bribing a witness and misleading the court by knowingly giving false testimony.
The Prosecutor's General Office sent a notice of suspicion of the head of the CCU Oleksandr Tupytskyi by mail in connection with his non-appearance on Monday for procedural actions.
The PGO also sent a request to the President of Ukraine to remove Tupytskyi from office as a judge for two months.
Recently, Schemes journalists, referring to a recording of a conversation involving Oleksandr Tupytskyi, reported that the current head of the Constitutional Court, when he was a judge in Donetsk in 2006-2010, helped to seize the plant's property in Zugres with the help of influence and acquaintances among judges, and allegedly received a stake in this company.
In October 2018, investigators from the Prosecutor's General Office with the SBU participation recorded Tupytsky'is conversation as part of criminal proceedings against the former head of the Supreme Economic Court, Viktor Tatkov, now wanted.
