Vitaly Antonovych Korsak

Position: judge of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal. 

Date and place of birth: 22.09.1966, p. Prudky, Krasnogvardiy district, Belgorod region, Russian Federation. 

Information about relatives: 

Angela Yuriivna Korsak, wife - since 2004 - a private notary of the Kyiv City Notary District. 

Education: Ukrainian Law Academy named after Dzerzhinsky in Kharkiv. 

Information about work (when, where worked, in what positions):

1984 – worker of the green construction section of the improvement and auxiliary farms of the Alushta Territorial Council for the Management of Trade Union Resorts.
1984 – 1986 – military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
1987 – operator of the KNS of the Morskyi Bereg Boarding House.
1991 – 1992 – bailiff of the Yalta City People's Court.
1992 – 1993 – assistant to the chairman of the Yalta City People's Court.
1993 – 2002 – judge of the Yalta City Court.
2002 – 2009 – judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
2009 – 2010 – first deputy chairman, judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
2010 – 08.2011 – Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
2011 – 2012 – Chairman of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
2012 – judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
2012 – 2018 – judge of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine.

2018 – 2019 – judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court of Appeal.

Since October 2019, he has been a judge of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal. 

Involvement in one of the cases (which case, position at the time of involvement):

Case "Kolomoiskyi v. Ukraine"

Violation of legislation within the framework of the case:

On December 9, 2020, the panel of judges of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal actually resumed the proceedings regarding the cancellation of the nationalization of PrivatBank, the bank's press service reported.

Judges Vitaly Korsak, Olga Popikova and Oleksiy Yevsikov annulled the decision of the judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court Larisa Shkurdova dated October 16, 2019 to stop the proceedings in case No. 910/1834/19.

"The appellate instance, despite the violated deadlines for filing an appeal with one of the defendants in the case and the operation of the so-called "anti-Kolomoi" law, actually resumed the proceedings regarding the cancellation of the nationalization of PrivatBank. These are the consequences that may result from the further consideration of the case filed by Igor Kolomoiskyi and TRIANTAL INVESTMENTS LTD (a Cypriot company that owned one of the largest blocks of shares in PrivatBank before its nationalization and is owned by Kolomoiskyi and Bogolyubov) regarding the illegality of the PrivatBank purchase agreement and the demand for shares pending consideration of another the lawsuit of Ihor Kolomoisky — on the recognition of the illegal nationalization of PrivatBank, which is currently being considered by the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal (case No. 826/7432/17)," Privatbank said.

These judges, despite the violation of the deadlines for filing an appeal and the operation of the so-called "anti-Kolomoi" law, actually resumed the proceedings regarding the cancellation of the nationalization of PrivatBank.

Involvement in other cases that had public resonance (in which case was noticed, status within this case, year, month):

In 2005, the judge of the Appellate State Court of Kyiv Korsak canceled the privatization of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, whose shares were owned by the concern "Prydniprovya". The mass media wrote that the Privat group of Ihor Kolomoiskyi, which owned 25% of shares of NZF, would benefit from the cancellation of privatization. At that time, Judge Korsak participated in a press conference held by the "Privat" group. And the initiator of the cancellation of privatization through the court was the then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who played along with Privat. 

In May 2021, the Canadian company TIU Canada demanded the removal of Popikova, Korsak and Yevsikov of the judges of the Northern Court of Appeal. They are considering the case of illegal disconnection of the solar power plant from the networks of Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant JSC."

TIU Canada explained that judges Korsak, Popikova and Yevsikov previously ruled in favor of Igor Kolomoiskyi, who controls NZF, in the case against the state-owned Privatbank.

Therefore, foreigners assume that judges will not be able to objectively consider the case related to this. the company

The president of TIU Canada, Michael Yurkovich, quoted by the press service, believes that it is impossible to count on an impartial hearing of the case when the judges have a track record of decisions in favor of the oligarch who is under US sanctions.

In May, all three judges recused themselves.