A resigned judge did not receive a salary for a year

The High Council of Justice has dismissed Victoria Litvinova, a judge of the Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa, from her post.

This was reported by the HCJ press service.

The reason for the dismissal was the judge's own statement. In her declaration for 2024, which was published by the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, the judge indicated that her only income last year was interest on a bank deposit - 129 hryvnias - and she did not declare any other income. Her monetary assets include only 1.6 thousand hryvnias in the Privatbank piggy bank.

The declaration also indicates that the judge is a refugee in Switzerland.

As for real estate, the judge declared a 106.9-square-meter apartment in Odesa owned by her daughter, Anastasia Kogan , and two land plots of 3.8 hectares and one hectare in Odesa owned by the judge herself. Viktoriia Litvinova also owns an unfinished house in Odesa with an area of 238.5 square meters.

The judge also declared a loan she took from businessman Hennadii Kogan in 2019, amounting to 700 thousand hryvnias.

Gennadiy Kogan is a well-known businessman who was involved in the story with the judge of the Prymorskyi Court of Odesa, Viktoriia Lytvynova.

The High Council of Justice has reprimanded Victoria Lytvynova, a judge of the Prymorskyi Court of Odesa, who was ranked sixth in the rating of violations of anti-corruption legislation in July 2019 by the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. Agents checking the declaration of the "servant of Themis" found signs of providing false information in the amount of UAH 2.8 million.

In October 2018, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption sent to the court a protocol on preventing and resolving conflicts of interest and restrictions on receiving gifts by a judge of the Primorskyi Court of Odesa.

In 2016, the judge received a gift of UAH 960,000 and used the money to buy an apartment at 2 Katerynska Street in the historic center of Odesa. In her declaration, Lytvynova stated that the money was given to her by Gennadiy Kogan.

In February 2019, the Kyiv District Court of Odesa closed the proceedings in this case because the time limit for imposing an administrative penalty had expired. However, Victoria Litvinova did not like this decision and appealed to the Court of Appeal.

Кирило Бойко