If Ukraine were America, then only based on the results of the analysis of the declarations of our, for example, judges, at least half of them would have to be sent for many years to where they send the gray and wretched Ukrainians.
According to political scientist Oleg Posternak, the dismissal of Smirnov, who oversaw the judicial system in the OP, launched the process of personnel changes in the leadership of the Ukrainian courts. Oleg Posternak reported this on his page on the social network Facebook.
“The race for positions has already begun; leadership positions may be headed by extremely controversial figures! In the coming weeks, tons of compromising evidence will be leaked into the information space, investigations and materials will be published that will humiliate some judges and exalt others. Declarations of 2023 will become the main source of compromising evidence and scandals!” – predicts Posternak.
“In particular, judge of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal Marina Barsuk is very keen to head the judicial body in which she serves. The appointment of Marina Barsuk will be very useful for her husband, lawyer Viktor Barsuk, who is ready to spend a lot on his wife’s career growth. Marina and her husband live a beautiful luxury life. In her declaration, Marina Barsuk did not declare a single piece of real estate, but reported hundreds of thousands of savings shared with her husband in euros, Swiss francs and hryvnias. The declared fleet of elite cars MERCEDES-BENZ S580/2021, G63AMG/2019, S600/2009, EQV/2021, which Marina Barsuk can use, stands out especially,” admits Oleg Posternak, according to publicly available declarations of judges for 2023.
Formally, of course, you can’t find fault - the property and money owned personally by Marina Barsuk do not go beyond the scope of her judicial salary - according to the declaration, last year she earned 2,011,609 hryvnia. All other property and assets included in the declaration belong mainly to Marina Barsuk’s husband, successful lawyer Viktor Barsuk.
Before looking at the declaration, I would like to ask a simple question: is no one in the justice system embarrassed by the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk represents the interests of his clients in the same court where his wife Marina Barsuk works as a judge? Nobody sees, to put it mildly, some kind of contradiction and conflict of interests in such a family contract? However, be that as it may, it is lawyer Viktor Barsuk who is the true head of the judge-advocate family, bringing to the family piggy bank the lion’s share of the benefits that his wife, by virtue of her position, was forced to include in the declaration.
According to the declaration of judge Marina Barsuk, her family owns four apartments in Kyiv and one in the UK - Marina Anatolyevna’s son, Privalov Timur Artemovich, lives in the latter. Who, apparently, is training to be a pilot or tank driver - it can’t be that the son of a Ukrainian judge is evading mobilization, right?
The family also has a parking space, a garage, a residential building and three plots of land. Everything is in Kyiv. According to the declaration, all this is estimated at 30,117,983 hryvnia. Moreover, one of the apartments in Kyiv was purchased for 12,746 hryvnia. According to the declaration, of course.
The car park didn’t disappoint either - Judge Badger’s family drives good cars. Exclusively on Mercedes, of which there are four in the family, all brand new. Of course, judge Marina Barsuk herself cannot afford such a luxury due to her small salary, because the cars are someone else’s, and their owners give her the opportunity to use them. These are the kind people we have in our country.
As for money itself, the lawyer-judge family is not poor either. Marina Anatolyevna herself declared 455,000 hryvnia and 44,000 dollars in cash, and she also has a bank deposit in the amount of 130,517 hryvnia.
The husband, as befits the head of the family, is richer - in total he has 600,000 dollars, 500,000 euros, 2,000,000 hryvnia and 350,000 Swiss francs. In cash, of course.
There was also some interesting story in the family with gifts - Marina Barsuk’s father-in-law, pensioner Nikolai Vasilyevich Barsuk, gave his son (that is, the judge’s husband) Viktor Nikolaevich Barsuk a gift “in a non-penny form” worth 20,051,060 hryvnia, and he, in his turn, he gave it to his beloved wife, Marina Barsuk.
It’s interesting, of course, what it was and why no one at NAZK asked where a pensioner with an annual pension of 80,166 hryvnia had the opportunity to give such gifts.
Actually, the casket opens quite simply. In addition to the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk conducts most of his cases in court, where his wife, Marina Barsuk, works as a judge, there are other reasons for the family’s well-being. And they also lie on the surface.
In 2021, judge Marina Barsuk was spotted at the birthday party of Pavel Fuks, who then had several lawsuits pending in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal. Fuchs’ interests were represented in this court by lawyer Viktor Barsuk, with whom Marina Barsuk appeared at Fuchs’s party.
“It is significant that Fuchs’ companies at that time had litigation in the Northern Economic Court of Appeal, where Marina Barsuk works. Fuchs’ interests were represented in court by Viktor Barsuk. This is not the first such circumstance where a legal entity. Badger’s company won in court, where his wife works. Such an episode was also the scandal with the court regarding the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant, where Barsuk acted in the interests of Kolomoisky and the Russian criminal financial group Babakov. The Barsukov family does not see any conflicts of interest in this,” said Oleg Posternak.
We managed to find this unsightly story on the Internet , although Marina Barsuk is clearly trying to get rid of any mention of it.
Marina Barsuk considers the case of the GOC
The irony is that at the same time, Marina Barsuk is giving an interview about “improving the business climate in Ukraine.”
However, it was not in vain that Marina Barsuk entered the public sphere - she is running for the position of head of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal, where she is currently a judge-speaker.
Will Marina Barsuk be able to make a career breakthrough and head the court in which she so honestly and incorruptibly judges clients represented by lawyer Viktor Barsuk? There is no answer yet, but we will know about it soon. At least Marina Anatolyevna has all the prerequisites for such an appointment. Judging by the declaration, she is a crystal honest person who lives on one salary. And everything else is pure coincidence. Probably not, since Mrs. Barsuk, after the first publications about her declaration, began to actively clean up the Internet in order to save the remnants of her reputation before her important appointment.
" Ukrainian Observer "
From the banquet to the court: the judge considering the claims of the oligarch Fuchs’ company was seen at his party
Judge Marina Barsuk, who is considering cases on claims from Pavel Fuks’s company, was previously a guest at the oligarch’s birthday party
In 2021, she walked at the oligarch’s party, and today she decides the fate of the assets that interest him. Judge Marina Barsuk, who is handling cases on claims from FC Investohils Vesta, was spotted last year at the birthday party of the sanctioned Pavel Fuks. It is he who actually controls the financial company. Is there a conflict of interest here? StopCora journalist Kirill Volny looked into it.
Russian-Ukrainian businessman Pavel Fuks, in an interview with one of the publications, himself confirmed that he is buying up the debts of domestic companies in pools through Investohils Vesta FC. One of these pools included the famous tire manufacturer Rosava and the Belotserkovskaya Thermal Power Plant.
In the future, the Fuchs structure implements the collection of debts or property of such enterprises through litigation. As the journalist notes, an analysis of the list of judges who heard cases on the claims of FC Investohils Vesta indicates the presence of a certain connection between some of them and Fuchs.
For example, Marina Barsuk works as a judge of the Northern Economic Court of Appeal. She is married - her husband Viktor, according to media reports, is part of Igor Kolomoisky’s legal group.
As Ukrayinska Pravda investigators discovered , in 2021 the couple attended a party in honor of Pavel Fuks’ birthday. Kolomoisky also attended the holiday. And already six months after the celebration, Marina begins to consider cases based on the claims of the Fuchs company.
Kirill Volny met with the judge to find out whether the servant of Themis saw a conflict of interest in her actions. However, Badger refused to comment on camera.
Let us remind you that a financial company from the orbit of Russian-Ukrainian businessman Pavel Fuks is probably trying to bypass the law to sell off the property of the thermal power plant and the Rosava tire plant in Bila Tserkva. In this regard, citizens may be left without heating and water supply in winter.