Experts say that judges from VAKS and VKKS are demanding preferential housing loans, despite issues of corruption and manipulation with official apartments.

The High Anti-Corruption Court, despite scandals surrounding official housing, has allocated 60 million UAH for this year to purchase it. Additionally, the High Council of Justice is demanding that the Cabinet of Ministers provide preferential loans at 3% for judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court, members of the High Council of Justice, and the High Qualification Commission of Judges, who earn salaries in the hundreds of thousands of hryvnias. Political expert Oleg Posternak wrote about this.

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“Judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court, members of the High Council of Justice, and the High Qualification Commission of Judges, earning salaries in the hundreds of thousands of hryvnias, are urgently demanding preferential housing loans despite the manipulations with official housing and corruption. Thus, the High Council of Justice has publicly appealed to the Cabinet to include its representatives and other dignitaries in the list of beneficiaries eligible for mortgage loans with a fixed annual rate of 3% in hryvnias,” he wrote.

He quoted former court chairman Pavlo Vovk, who described the accessible mortgage lending and preferential mortgages for members of the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges, and the Supreme Court, whose salaries range from 300,000 to 400,000 UAH per month, as mockery.

The expert also noted that in 2025, the High Anti-Corruption Court plans to spend around 60 million hryvnias on the purchase of official apartments. This is despite recent revelations about manipulations with official housing in this court.

“As always, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has surprised everyone the most, as it seems that soon only the name ‘High Corruption Court’ will remain. For example, HACC judge Markiyan Halabala illegally received official housing, even though he was already provided with housing in Kyiv. Judge Vitaliy Kryklivyy was caught in manipulations with official housing through his wife, who is also a judge at HACC,” he emphasized.

Recently, Bihus.info reported on the mass privatization of official housing by judges and police officers in its investigation, yet for some reason, they have no information about the scandals in HACC, Posternak wrote.

“Is there anything about official housing for ‘our anti-corruption’ in this Bihus investigation and why?” – the expert quotes well-known lawyer Oleg Shram, noting that Bihus.info did not mention the scandals surrounding official housing in HACC.

Posternak also reminded about the scandalously known HACC judge Yekaterina Sikora, who, with the help of colleagues in another court, sued the state for half a million hryvnias in compensation. At the same time, she was caught in illegal enrichment: according to the investigation, she provided false information about several cars, apartments (!), and parking spaces that appeared for her and her family during her active judicial work, he wrote.

“Another HACC judge, Valeriya Chernaya, became the owner of an elite car from a dealership – a BMW X6 – in the midst of the war. Her colleague, HACC appellate chamber judge Mykola Glotov, bought a ‘Tesla’ for nearly 2 million UAH a year after the start of the full-scale invasion. And such judges, without hesitation, take housing for free. Square meters are never excessive. Even if you have a penthouse in the center of Kyiv or a house in the countryside and do not plan to live in official housing, the state still pays,” he reported.

The expert emphasized that today, housing is primarily needed for the military and people who have lost everything due to hostilities, not for the privileged judges of HACC and oversight bodies like the High Council of Justice.

“It’s not just a few individuals taking money from the state. It’s an army of elite judges from HACC, members of the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges, their secretariat employees, family members, etc. An army! Millions of state funds,” Posternak summarized.