Kyiv District Administrative Court Chief Pavlo Vovk, Arsen Avakov, Deputy Prosecutor General Roman Hovda, and a “naked lady” — what do these characters have in common?
The Kyiv District Administrative Court handles state-level cases — it deals exclusively with the select and the powerful: Avakov’s people, Zelensky’s friends, senior prosecutors. Thanks to this convenient arrangement:
- They rescue defendants in the “Avakov’s backpacks” case, then fix judges’ problems and purge uncooperative staff
- They help an influential prosecutor get rid of an “a**hole”
- They shield the owner of the “naked lady” from a fine of over 200,000 hryvnias following a phone call from “above”
And this is far from a complete list of the “achievements” of arguably the most powerful court in the country — the one that handles complaints against the highest branches of government. What exactly is being traded in this supermarket of justice is the subject of our investigative film, The Deliberation Room.
