Vovk Sergey Volodymyrovych

Position: judge of the Pechersk district court Kyiv.

Date and place of birth: March 2, 1978., m. Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region.

Information about relatives:

In accordance with declaration of family ties of the judge for 2015-2019:

Vovk Ksenia Mykhailivna (wife of a judge) - from 2013 to 2017 worked in the staff of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
Fyodor Mykhailovych Tatarchuk (brother of the judge's wife) - worked as a senior official in the Department of Internal Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since 2013 he has been practicing law.
Tatarchuk Ivan Mykhailovych (brother of the judge's wife) - since 2017 - assistant to the judge of the patronage service of the department of ensuring the work of the first court chamber of the secretariat of the civil court of cassation of the Supreme Court. Until now, since 2012, he held various positions in the apparatus of the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine for consideration of civil and criminal cases.

Education:

IN 2000 graduated from Odesa University named after Mechnikov, in 2001 he obtained the qualification of master of law at the same university.
IN 2014 graduated from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.

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

IN 2006 by decree of the President V. Yushchenko appointed as a judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv.
In 2011 Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada elected as a judge indefinitely.

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

The case of Sheremet - judge of the Pechersk district court Kyiv.

The case "Kolomoiskyi v. Ukraine"

Violation of legislation within the framework of the case:

On September 2, 2020, he passed a decision on compulsory collection of almost 10 billion hryvnias from the state commercial bank "Privatbank" in favor of the companies of the Surkis brothers.

He authorized the detention of Antonenko and Kuzmenko. Responsible for choosing a preventive measure against Antonenko and Kuzmenko in the form of detention without reliable evidence, and house arrest for Yani Dugar. Gave an unreasonable permission to search Yana Dugar's home.

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

As are reported "Our money", in April 2011, Judge Vovk was a member of the panel of judges passed the verdict found the employees of the State Employment Center guilty of receiving a bribe and replaced the punishment with a probationary term for 2 years.
As point out "Our money", this case related to the situation when the director of the State Employment Center, Volodymyr Halytskyi, was detained on suspicion of systematic bribery seven directions activity, seizing money and 30 kilograms of gold for a total amount of $7 million during the arrest. His employees were listed as co-participants in the mentioned criminal proceedings and appeared as transmitters/receivers/custodians of money.
It is noteworthy that, despite bringing the center's employees to criminal liability, the panel of judges decided to return the property seized from them to the officials: the head of the department received a Swiss watch "Rado", mobile phones, the seizure was lifted from the land plots and the residential building, 26 thousand UAH were returned. and $5 thousand, which were removed from the official office, and 1.9 million hryvnias, 200 thousand euros and 300 pounds sterling, which were in his bank box. The court returned to the secretary $27 thousand and 10 thousand UAH, seized during the search of the apartment, as well as $43 thousand and 1 thousand UAH, which were seized in the official office. The court returned to the driver $50 thousand that were in his bank box, as well as $1802, 1336 hryvnias. and 1,750 Russian rubles seized during a personal search and two cars, a residential building and an apartment were seized.

In 2012, the former acting Minister of Defense Valery Ivashchenko was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Such a decision was made on Thursday by the judge of the Pechersk District Court, Serhiy Vovk.
Details - in materials of "Ukrainian Pravda".
In the resolution of the European Parliament dated 14.05.2012 p. Ivashchenko was recognized as convicted for political reasons.

In 2012, ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Yury Lutsenko was sentenced to 4 years in prison. The corresponding decision was announced by the judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Serhiy Vovk.
More details - in the material of "Ukrainian Pravda".
In the resolutions of the European Parliament from 09.06.2011 p. and from 14.05.2012 p. it was noted that the preliminary report of the Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights on the cases of Lutsenko and Korniychuk cited a large number of violations of the European Convention on Human Rights, the trials against other high-ranking officials from the former government are unacceptable and are a manifestation of selective justice, and also expressed concern about the growth of selective persecution of figures of the political opposition in Ukraine and Lutsenko was recognized as having been convicted of political motives.

In 2019, the judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Serhiy Vovk, satisfied the lawsuit of former Yanukovych adviser Andrii Portnov for the protection of honor and dignity and decided to collect almost 7 million hryvnias from the state budget in his favor. During the August 2 hearing, Portnova's lawyer stated that the Canadian government continued sanctions against her client based on letters from the prosecutor's office. They allegedly wrote a lie about Portnov's involvement in violations of the law.
More details - in "Investigation-info" material.

On September 2, 2020, Judge Vovk made an "exotic" decision, with which, at an intermediate stage of the process, he satisfied the demands of six British companies of brothers Hryhoriy and Ihor Surkis to write off 350 million US dollars from the state-owned "PrivatBank" in their favor, even without winning the entire proceedings on the merits. "PrivatBank" claims that the plaintiffs used the so-called "fan" scheme to bypass the automatic system of distributing cases among judges: the Surkis companies submitted three almost identical applications at the same time, after which they withdrew two of them, leaving only the one that was considered by Vovka. At that time, he had another, related case under consideration.
More details - for link

Dishonesty

Disciplinary sanctions and punishments

Scandals

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Media about:

(presence of circumstances indicating a probable violation by the pursuer of the Law of Ukraine "On Prevention of Corruption"):

In 2009, the Kyiv prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Vovka for forging and using a forged court decision, stealing a civil case and fraudulently taking possession of a 70-hectare plot of land. The corresponding decision was made as a result of the review of the court's activities.
"In particular, it was established that the judge of the Pechersk District Court S. Vovk, in violation of the requirements of the law, issued a decision by which he recognized the ownership right of 0.10 hectares for each plaintiff (a total of 4.3 hectares) on French Boulevard in the city of Odessa" , - said Moskal.
"At the same time, the judge, exceeding his official powers, without reference to the norms of substantive law, illegally changed the purpose of the land from recreational to land for the construction and maintenance of a residential building and farm buildings and structures," the deputy claims.
More details - in materials of the "Ukrainian Week" publication.

After the Revolution, the dignity of the Wolf was announced suspicion in the adoption of a known unjust decision, by which he took the car and apartment from the citizen in absentia. However, in January 2020, the Vyshgorod District Court of the Kyiv Region declared him innocent and acquitted the judge.
More details - in materials of "Ukrainian Pravda".

Investigative Department of the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Kyiv in June 2015, the pre-trial investigation in the criminal proceedings against the judge of the Pechersk District Court of the capital Serhiy Vovka was completed. As reported, S. Vovk is suspected of abusing his official position and deliberately violating the requirements of the law, making a knowingly unjust decision in a civil case. By his decision, the judge illegally deprived the citizen of the right of ownership of the property belonging to him. The specified criminal offense is classified under part 2 Art. 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (provision of a knowingly unjust decision by a judge). However, the Court of Appeal of the city of Kyiv refused the Kyiv Prosecutor's Office to keep the judge of the Pechersk Court Serhiy Vovka in custody.
Details - for link.
On January 15, 2020, the Vyshgorod District Court of the Kyiv Region found Serhiy Vovka innocent in this case.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (GPU) has started criminal proceedings against the judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv, Serhii Vovk, for the fact that he unblocked funds from the accounts of the former Minister of Agriculture Mykola Prysiazhniuk. This was stated by the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Oleksiy Baganets, reports Espresso.TV.

Journalists of the publication "Ukrainian Week" suspected judge Serhiy Vovka of the inconsistency of the rate of accumulation of property and his income. Yes, it was said that in 2010, the judge, despite not having such a large salary (in 2010, he received 77,290 hryvnias, 6,114 of which was material assistance - about 6,500 hryvnias for monthly expenses), had already managed to earn money for an apartment with an area of 205 square meters, a plot of land with an area of 1,800 square meters, a Ford truck. And also Toyota and Honda cars for the family - in particular, the young wife of the 40-year-old judge, Ksenia Mykhailivna.
The year 2011 brought the honest (at least, more frank than his colleagues when filling out declarations) judge 960 new square meters of "golden" land near the Black Sea in the village of Karolino-Bugaz (Odesa region), 760 "squares" near the same sea in the village of Zatoka (also Odesa), two previously missing apartments in Odesa (24.3 and 177 square meters). He also indicated in the last declaration the tiny premises belonging to his family members in the capital - 13.4 and 9.5 square meters

Serhiy Vovka was suspended from work five times, but every time he returned to work at the Pechersk Court of Kyiv.
March 1, 2011 — the Supreme Council of Justice dismissed Vovka from the post of judge of the Pechersk District Court for violating the oath.
March 10, 2015 — At the meeting of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, based on the request of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine a decision was made remove 5 judges from their positions, including Serhiy Vovka.
In February 2016, Vovk returned to work, the GPU appealed to VKKS to remove Vovk from his post.
April 4, 2016 — for by the decision of the Higher Qualification Commission Vovka judges were suspended from work for two months. This was the fifth case of suspension.

The Pechersk District Court ordered the Prosecutor General's Office to remove from the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations the information about the notice of suspicion to the head of the District Administrative Court, Pavlo Vovka, due to its "improper delivery". After studying the complaint, investigating judge Serhiy Vovk of the Pechersk Court satisfied it and ordered the OGP to exclude the information about the serving of suspicion on the head of the OASK, Pavlo Vovk. He established that the head of the court was improperly served with the suspicion while he was on vacation. Also, the detectives allegedly sent suspicion to Vovka at the wrong address.
Source – material "Word and Deed".

On July 5, the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv granted the request of "Privatofis" LLC, related to Ihor Kolomoisky, and lifted the seizure of 415 real estate objects of the company. This is stated in the court decision published in the Unified Register of Court Decisions on July 12, reports "Interfax-Ukraine". The judge came to the conclusion that "the seizure was imposed without evidence of proportionality of the value of the immovable property, on which the seizure was imposed, with the amount of damage caused by the criminal offense," the case file states.

During an unannounced session late on June 6, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv rejected the request of the investigation to extend the detention period of the main suspect in the organization of the murder of the Berdyan activist, a participant in the hostilities in Donbas, Vitaly "Sarmat" Oleshko - Mykhailo Sigida. Judge Serhiy Vovk decided to release Sigida from custody to house arrest.
More details - Radio Svoboda material.

In December 2020, he praised the decision to transfer the case against the Deputy Head of the Office of the President Oleg Tatarov from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). As noted in the anti-corruption prosecutor's office, judge Vovk, by making such a decision, went beyond the limits of the powers granted to him. The SAP emphasizes that the determination of liability is not the competence of a judge - it can be done by the prosecutor (Part 5 of Article 218 of the Criminal Procedure Code). Also, according to the special prosecutor's office, there is a ban on the transfer of cases investigated by NABU to another law enforcement agency (Part 5 of Article 36 of the Criminal Procedure Code).
More details - in "Investigation-info" material.

Vovk Sergey Volodymyrovych (Wikipedia).

Vovk Serhii Volodymyrovych (Chesno).

Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine On granting consent to the detention and arrest (taking into custody) of the judge of the Pechersk District Court of the city of Kyiv Vovka S.V.

Why do scandalous judges Serhiy Vovk and Pavlo Vovk continue to administer justice?

Judge Vovk returned to work.

The Pechersk court ordered the OGP to withdraw information about Vovku's suspicion.

Kafka from the Wolf. PrivatBank almost lost $350 million to the Surkis in the Pechersk court. What's next?