Yashchenko Mykola Anatoliyovych

Position:

Judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal

Date and place of birth: 

The information is being clarified

Information about relatives:

Yashchenko Tamara Stepanivna - wife
Maryna Mykolaivna Udovychenko - daughter
Serhii Petrovych Udovichenko is a son-in-law
Udovychenko Artem Serhiyovych is a grandson

Education:

The information is being clarified

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

2001 – 2011 – judge of the local Avtozavodsky district court of the city of Kremenchuk, Poltava region (from 2006 elected to the position of judge indefinitely);
2011 – 2018 – judge of the Court of Appeal of Kyiv
2018 - including - a judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal.

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

July 3, 2020 the board of judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeals consisting of Valery Mykolayovych Lashevych, Mykola Anatoliyovych Yashchenko, Ivan Oleksiyovych Rybak refused to satisfy the defense's complaint and left Serhiy Sternenko under 24-hour house arrest.

Violation of legislation within the framework of the case:

The information is being clarified

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

1. As can be seen from the register of court decisions and information from the publication "Ukrainian Pravda", Judge Yashchenko was a member of the panel of judges, which left unchanged the life sentence imposed by the Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv on the former head of the Department of External Surveillance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Oleksiy Pukach, on the charge of murdering journalist Heorhiy Gongadze.
2. According to information from the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, on February 6, 2019, Judge Yashchenko was a member of the panel of judges that decided decision about cancellation decisions of the investigating judge of the Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv, which imposed an arrest on the corporate rights of Arkona Gas-Energy LLC with a ban on any registration actions. As reported on the "Word and Deed" website, The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine is investigating the alleged abuse of office by officials of the State Geology and Subsoil Service of Ukraine when granting a special permit for gas production without competition and at an undervalued price to Arkona Gas-Energy.
3. Earlier journalists of the "Schemes" program wrote, that behind the Arkona Gas-Energy company are people connected to the entourage of President Petro Poroshenko.