Lyudmila Mykolaivna Shkurdova

Position: judge of the Economic Court of Kyiv.

Date and place of birth: March 5, 1962

Information about relatives:

Yulia Serhiyivna Shkurdova, daughter - since 2011, she has been working first as a secretary, and then as an assistant judge at the High Economic Court of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Education:

Kharkiv Law Institute named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky

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

1992–2006 – arbitrator of the Arbitration Court of the Poltava Region;

2006–2011 – judge of the Military Court of Appeal of the Central Region;

Since 2011, he has been a judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv.

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:

In February 2019, judge Shkurdova, on the second attempt, accepted the lawsuit of Kolomoiskyi and the affiliated company Triantal Investments for the return of their shares in the bank.

In April of the same year, she began consideration of the case regarding the invalidation of the sale and purchase agreement of PrivatBank to the Ministry of Finance for UAH 1 during nationalization and the return of the bank's shares to its former owners - Ihor Kolomoiskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov.

The court rejected the request of the Ministry of Finance, which asked to leave the statement of claim without consideration. At the same time, the National Bank of Ukraine, NKCPFR, PrivatBank, as well as custodians Ukreximbank and Solid Dnipro were added to the list of defendants.

In June 2019, the judge closed the trial. Even at the stage of preparatory hearings, state lawyers complained in the press that she often limited them in their responses. However, Shkurdova allegedly treated the plaintiffs loyally.

On October 16, 2019, Shkurdova suspended consideration of Kolomoiskyi's lawsuit for the return of PrivatBank shares pending a decision in the case in the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal.

PrivatBank stated that the appellate instance, despite the violation of the deadlines for filing an appeal by 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.

This decision immediately gave the opportunity to the judge of the Commercial Court of Kyiv Shkurdova, who suspended the case in October 2019, to resume the proceedings and declare the sale of PrivatBank invalid and return the shares to the former owners.

Then the court session on the lawsuit was postponed several times, and the defendants' motion to dismiss judge Ludmila Shkurdova was rejected.

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

On November 0, 2015, it lifted the seizure of the property and monetary assets of the Eastern European Fuel and Energy Company, the owner of which is one of the "wallets" of Viktor Yanukovych's regime, Serhii Kurchenko. As part of this case, the court canceled its own decision of July 17, 2014.