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Olha Veretilnyk
Advocate (Individual Legal Practice)
Independent Legal Practice — Kyiv, Ukraine
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⚠️ Violation Context
Recognition of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation violates fundamental principles of international law and Ukrainian sovereignty.
Ukrainian Law Violations:#
- Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
- Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
- Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Legal Regime on the Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine” — Establishes that Crimea remains Ukrainian territory under temporary occupation.
- Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders.
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2024 - 2026
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👤 Biography & Current Position
Olha Veretilnyk#
Member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (third and fourth composition)
Olha Veretilnyk (Веретільник Ольга Сергіївна) served as a member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (third and fourth composition, August 14, 2023 – present), representing Transparency International Ukraine.
Why This Profile Exists#
The Public Integrity Council of Ukraine — the institution in which Olha Veretilnyk served — systematically applied integrity criteria that treated connections to occupied Crimea as equivalent to connections with the Russian Federation. This methodology rests on an unstated but consistent institutional premise: Crimea is under Russian jurisdiction.
Every PIC conclusion that cited a judge’s Crimea property, post-2014 travel to Crimea, or family ties on the peninsula as an integrity risk was, in effect, treating Crimea as a foreign (Russian) territory requiring justification before Ukrainian authorities — not as sovereign Ukrainian territory where Ukrainian citizens have every constitutional right to live, travel, and own property.
This directly contradicts:
- Ukraine’s Constitution, Articles 2, 73, 133–134 — Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine; its status can only be altered by an all-Ukrainian referendum
- The Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory (2014) — explicitly maintains Ukrainian sovereignty over Crimea
- UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (2014) — affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration of Crimea’s status
Olha Veretilnyk, as a member of the PIC, participated in this institutional pattern of implicit recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea.
International Law Violations#
- UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (March 27, 2014) — Affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration in Crimea’s status.
- Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994) — Commits signatories to respect Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty.
- UN Charter Principles (Article 2(1) and 2(4)) — Prohibit acquisition of territory by force; establish sovereign equality of states.
Ukrainian Law Violations#
- Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
- Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Any change to Ukraine’s territory requires an all-Ukrainian referendum; Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
- Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders in violation of the Constitution.
Role in the PIC’s Crimea-Recognition Pattern#
Veretilnyk participated in both the third (2023-2025) and fourth (2025-present) compositions of the Public Integrity Council, which applied the December 16, 2020 Integrity Indicators treating travel to or connections with Crimea as equivalent to connections with Russia. As co-coordinator of the third composition and member of the fourth, she was directly involved in institutional decisions that operationally recognized Russian jurisdiction over Ukrainian territory, violating Ukraine’s constitutional framework regarding Crimea’s status.
Education and Career#
Olha Veretilnyk is a criminal law advocate specializing in high-profile corruption cases, most notably representing the father of murdered activist Kateryna Handziuk. She served as co-coordinator of the Public Integrity Council’s third composition and currently serves on the fourth composition, representing the Center for Economic Strategy. Her participation in PIC conclusions treating Crimea-related connections as integrity risks constitutes an implicit institutional recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea, contradicting Ukraine’s constitutional order and the Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory.
Controversies and Criticism#
Participation in Crimea-recognition methodology. As a member of the Public Integrity Council, Olha Veretilnyk participated in the application of integrity assessment methodology that implicitly treats Crimea as operating under Russian jurisdiction. Every PIC conclusion that penalized judges for Crimea-related connections — property, travel, family ties — reproduces this premise in an official state-adjacent procedure.
Constitutional contradiction. The methodology applied by the PIC in which Olha Veretilnyk served operates on a factual premise — that Crimea is under Russian administrative control — that Ukraine’s legal system requires treating as an illegal occupation rather than an established institutional reality.
Summary#
As a member of the Public Integrity Council’s third and fourth composition (August 14, 2023 – present), Olha Veretilnyk participated in the institution’s ongoing practice of citing Crimea-related facts — a property, a family tie, a pre-2021 visit — as integrity risks in judicial vetting, a practice that implicitly treats the peninsula as lying outside Ukraine’s sovereign legal order.
This site currently catalogues 33 PIC conclusions involving Olha Veretilnyk, citing a Crimea-related connection — running from the earliest, on Dziuba Oleh Anatoliiovych (June 8, 2024), to the most recent, on Podzirov Andrii Olehovych: PIC Treats 13-Day Crimea Trip for Son's Dance Festival as Integrity Violation Requiring 'Urgent Necessity' Justification (September 30, 2026). Each is documented separately below, with its underlying document and vote record.
ℹ️ What Else We Know
Professional Activities#
- Criminal defense lawyer who represented the father of murdered activist Kateryna Handziuk in high-profile corruption cases
- Co-coordinator of PIC’s third composition and member of fourth composition representing Transparency International Ukraine
- Graduated from State Tax University and practices individual legal advocacy since 2023
- Previously worked at Anti-Corruption Center and Miller Law Firm, including on politically sensitive cases
- Licensed advocate registered with Kyiv Oblast Bar Association since February 2018
📅 Career Timeline
August 2023 - Present
Member, Public Integrity Council (Fourth Composition)
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
August 2023 - Present
Co-coordinator, Public Integrity Council
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
August 2023 - 2025
Member, Public Integrity Council (Third Composition)
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
PIC — Kyiv, Ukraine
June 2023 - Present
Advocate (Individual Practice)
Independent Legal Practice — Kyiv, Ukraine
Independent Legal Practice — Kyiv, Ukraine
April 2022 - June 2023
Advisor
Miller Law Firm — Kyiv, Ukraine
Miller Law Firm — Kyiv, Ukraine
October 2019 - May 2022
Advocate
Miller Law Firm — Kyiv, Ukraine
Miller Law Firm — Kyiv, Ukraine
Previously
Lawyer
Anti-Corruption Center
Anti-Corruption Center
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Olha Veretilnyk
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📋 Documented Instances
Podzirov Andrii Olehovych: PIC Treats 13-Day Crimea Trip for Son's Dance Festival as Integrity Violation Requiring 'Urgent Necessity' Justification
📅 September 30, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC adopted negative integrity conclusion on judge Podzirov citing visits to temporarily occupied territories without urgent necessity (including a 13-day June–July 2014 Crimea trip) and concerns about free use of an apartment.
"The candidate together with his family visited the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea more than four months after the start of the temporary occupation by the Russian Federation. At the same time, according to sub-paragraph 1.5 of paragraph 1 of the Indicators... trips to the Russian Federation, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or other temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine out of urgent necessity to close relatives or to resolve property matters do not in themselves indicate a violation of the relevant indicator. In this case, the candidate explained the trip to the temporarily occupied Crimea by the need to ensure his son's participation in a dance festival. That is, the stated purpose of the trip was not related to the need to visit close relatives, or to resolve property matters.
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Official meeting
Blyzniuk Ihor Volodymyrovych: PIC Cites Cohabitant's Parents' Trips to Occupied Crimea as Grounds for Deliberate Concealment Finding
📅 September 18, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC adopted negative conclusion on Court of Appeal candidate Blyzniuk, citing cohabitant's parents' Crimea trips as deliberately concealed.
"The mother of the person cohabiting with the candidate visited the temporarily occupied Crimea: she left on 19.07.2019 through the temporary checkpoint at the administrative border of Ukraine at Kalanchak and returned to the controlled territory on 30.07.2019 through the same checkpoint. The father of the person cohabiting with the candidate visited the temporarily occupied Crimea twice… The candidate answered: '…I am not aware of such trips by members of my family or close persons.' Thus, the candidate, deliberately, with the aim of concealing information about… the temporarily occupied territory… provided knowingly false information.
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Official meeting
Antonov's Father and Brother Used Crimea Checkpoint in August 2019: PIC Treats Administrative-Boundary Crossing as Integrity Risk
📅 September 1, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited Antonov's father and brother crossing the Kherson–Crimea administrative boundary checkpoint in August 2019 as an integrity risk.
"In 2019, the candidate's father crossed the border through the checkpoint — a former entry-exit control point on the administrative boundary between Kherson Oblast and the temporarily occupied Crimea. The candidate's father departed on 2 August and returned on 21 August 2019. [...] The candidate's brother departed on 2 August 2019 through the checkpoint — a former entry-exit control point on the administrative boundary between Kherson Oblast and the temporarily occupied Crimea. [...] The totality of the cited data — regular trips by the candidate's close relatives to the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied Crimea — creates a justified need to obtain exhaustive explanations from the candidate.
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Yushkov Mykhailo Mykhailovych: Repeated Trips to Occupied Crimea (2018–2020) and Mother-in-Law's Russian Passport Cited as Integrity Grounds
📅 August 31, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC approved a negative integrity conclusion on appellate court candidate Yushkov, citing his 2018–2020 trips to occupied Crimea and his mother-in-law's Russian passport.
"The candidate for the position of judge visited the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent necessity — that is, in the absence of critical and/or urgent, vitally necessary circumstances that cannot be resolved in any other way than by personal presence in those territories — despite the threat to his own security, that of his close persons, and to Ukraine's national security. [...] According to information obtained from open sources, including data arrays containing information from Russian registries, it has been established that the candidate's mother-in-law holds a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation (series, number, issued by the UFMS in Kaliningrad Oblast of the RF in 2014). This information is important in the context of evaluating the candidate, also taking into account the facts of his repeated visits to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and the likely ties of his mother-in-law to the aggressor state.
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Official meeting
Bikezina Olena Vasylivna: PIC Cites July 2014 Travel from Occupied Donetsk to Occupied Sevastopol and Family Crossings as Integrity Concerns
📅 August 28, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC issued negative conclusion on appellate judge candidate Bikezina, citing her 2014 travel to occupied Sevastopol and family crossings into occupied territories.
"The Public Integrity Council draws attention to the fact that the Candidate, who intended to become a judge and took the oath on 31.03.2015, on 02.07.2014, after the occupation by the Russian Federation of Donetsk and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, traveled from the TOT of Donetsk to the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the city of Sevastopol and remained there until 10.08.2014. Visits by representatives of judicial bodies and members of their families to occupied territories and the aggressor state without urgent need are perceived negatively by society and may damage the authority of the judiciary as a whole.
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Official meeting
Lapchenko Oksana Mykolaivna: PIC Issues Negative Integrity Conclusion Citing Conflict of Interest and Unexplained Asset Origins; Husband's Crimea Visits and Occupied-Territory Ties Noted as Additional Concerns
📅 July 29, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC adopted a negative integrity conclusion based on conflict-of-interest findings and unexplained asset origins; the husband's two trips to occupied Crimea and family-owned property there were recorded as additional concerns requiring explanation.
"The candidate's husband Lapchenko P.P. twice visited the temporarily occupied Crimea during the periods 12.08.2018–21.08.2018 and 16.08.2021–26.08.2021. [...] My husband's mother is the owner of a residential house located at: Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Chornomorskyi district, village Medvedeve [...] The cited information regarding systematic trips by close relatives and the candidate's husband himself to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as information about their use of passports of the russian federation and documents issued by the illegal occupying bodies [...] raises reasonable doubts in an outside observer regarding the existence and nature of the connections of the candidate's husband's close relatives with the aggressor state.
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MEDIUM
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Fomin Pavlo Viktorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 9, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's and his mother's trips to occupied Crimea in 2018–2019 as creating Russian intelligence recruitment risk.
"The candidate and members of his family visited the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2018 and 2019. […] Having weighed and assessed all the facts and circumstances, the Public Integrity Council considers that, despite the absence of a direct prohibition on visits during the period between 2014 and 2021, such trips without urgent necessity, firstly, created risks to the candidate's independence and exposed him to the risk of falling under the influence of the aggressor state's special services, and secondly, demonstrated a dismissive attitude on the part of the candidate's family toward the civic consensus on publicly condemning Russia's aggressive actions and observing the unspoken principle of refraining from travel to the territory of the aggressor state.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Fedorova Olena Viktorivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 7, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC flagged family trips to occupied Crimea in 2014–2015 via Moscow–Simferopol train as insufficiently justified integrity risk.
"In the opinion of the Public Integrity Council, the explanations provided by the Candidate regarding her visits in 2014–2015 to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are not sufficiently convincing and are not confirmed by proper and admissible evidence. In particular, the Candidate justifies the necessity of the trips by family circumstances — the need to assist her husband's elderly relative due to a deterioration in his health. However, no documentary evidence has been provided to demonstrate the severity of that person's health condition, the necessity of the Candidate's and her family members' personal presence, or the impossibility of providing such assistance in another way (in particular, through other relatives or remotely).
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Radchenko Vitalii Yevhenovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 3, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC flagged candidate's sister crossing Crimea administrative boundary checkpoints and obtaining a Russian passport as integrity concerns.
"The candidate's sister crossed through KPVV [name] (at the time — a crossing point on the line of demarcation in Donetsk oblast) between 09.01.2018 and 25.05.2018. On 29.05.2018 the candidate's sister crossed through KPVV [name] (a temporary crossing point on the administrative boundary of Ukraine bordering Crimea annexed by Russia), and returned on 25.07.2018 through KPVV [name] (a temporary crossing point on the administrative boundary of Ukraine established shortly after Russia's forcible annexation of Crimea in 2014).
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Gida Olga Serhiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 May 31, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited judge's September 2017 trip to Crimea with minor child and partner's property in occupied territory as integrity violations
"The judge did not display civic consciousness and patriotism, and committed acts that indicate support for aggressive actions of other states against Ukraine. The judge visited temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need, i.e., in the absence of critical and/or urgent vital circumstances
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shalahinova Anastasiia Volodymyrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 May 27, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited systematic trips to occupied Crimea and appeals to occupying courts as primary grounds for negative integrity finding
"The candidate visited temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need... despite threats to her own security, close persons and national security of Ukraine and appealed to judicial institutions of the occupying authority... The candidate made at least 6 entries to temporarily occupied territory, namely: 19.07.2014 - Exit 605 - 02.09.2014 - Entry 604
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Korytska Viktoriia Oleksandrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 April 14, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited judge's two post-occupation trips to Crimea and interactions with Russian border guards as primary basis for negative integrity conclusion
"undoubtedly when crossing the administrative border of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the judge communicated with Russian 'border guards' and 'customs officers', followed their orders and demands, provided documents for verification confirming her identity and right of entry to Crimea, as well as her belongings for customs inspection and processing
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Radchenko Vitalii Yevhenovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 30, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC flagged family ties to occupied Crimea including medical treatment in Alushta and Russian passport acquisition as integrity concerns.
"The candidate's mother left through the Kalanchak checkpoint - there is no information about her return. The candidate's sister left through the Chonhar checkpoint (temporary crossing point through Ukraine's administrative border with Crimea annexed by Russia), and returned through the Kalanchak checkpoint. According to available information, a woman with the same name as the candidate's sister received a Russian passport. The candidate's wife's mother underwent medical examination in occupied Alushta.
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Maksym Mykolaiovych Hloba: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 30, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited Hloba's multiple trips to Russian Federation during 2013-2014 period as unjustified travel violating integrity standards
"During the period from 25.12.2013 to 13.06.2014, the Candidate repeatedly visited RF territory. The Public Integrity Council critically evaluates the provided explanations, as the Candidate's stated motives for visiting RF territory do not indicate the presence of objective or urgent necessity for such trips and are of a domestic nature.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shofarenko Yurii Fedorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 26, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited undisclosed apartment sale in occupied Simferopol as integrity violation
"The candidate in his asset declaration for 2015 declared income of 2,304,000 UAH received from the disposal of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The sale of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea after the beginning of its occupation, in the absence of information about applicable legislation and procedure for formalizing such a transaction, may indicate a risk of carrying out relevant actions within the legal framework of the occupying state or with the participation of persons connected to the occupation authorities.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Zinchenko Oleksii Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 22, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's August-September 2014 trips to occupied Crimea and Russia as primary grounds for negative integrity finding.
"Thus, in August-September 2014 — during the active phase of the Russian Federation's armed aggression against Ukraine, including the tragic events near Ilovaisk and the beginning of the occupation of parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the Candidate made at least three trips: two directly to the territory of the Russian Federation (Belgorod Oblast) and one to the temporarily occupied territory of the AR of Crimea.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Tetiana Dmytrivna Shevyrina: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 16, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited family relatives in occupied Crimea and multiple post-occupation family trips to peninsula as primary integrity violation
"The candidate and members of her family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need... The candidate and her family have relatives in the temporarily occupied territory (AR Crimea) and recorded multiple trips by family members (after occupation)... the candidate's father visited temporarily occupied RF territories (AR Crimea) 11.04.2017–23.04.2017 and 01.07.2017–10.09.2017... the candidate's father-in-law made 8 more trips to RF territory and 2 trips to temporarily occupied Crimea
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Medvediev Kostiantyn Viktorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 January 31, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's loan guarantee based on future Crimean property inheritance as integrity risk due to occupation-related legal uncertainties.
"Thus, the Candidate effectively admitted that the source for repaying the multi-million loan in the future should be property that was not inherited by him at the time of receiving the funds, was not in his ownership, and regarding which there are significant legal and factual uncertainties related to the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kolomiiets Nataliia Oleksiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 January 28, 2026
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC flagged candidate's in-laws' post-2022 trips to occupied Crimea and their apartment ownership in Simferopol as integrity risks.
"Such trips without urgent necessity, firstly, created risks for the candidate's independence and exposed her to the risk of falling under the influence of the aggressor country's special services, and secondly, demonstrated a dismissive attitude from the candidate's family toward the civic consensus regarding public condemnation of RF's aggressive actions and adherence to the unspoken principle of refraining from trips to the aggressor country's territory.
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LOW
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shabratskyy Hryhoriy Oleksiyovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 December 31, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited post-occupation trips to Luhansk via Russia and family ties on occupied territory as integrity risks from Russian intelligence services.
"The candidate and members of his family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need, i.e. in the absence of critical and/or urgent vital circumstances... According to the integrity declaration for 2022 submitted with the competition documents, the candidate and his wife repeatedly visited temporarily occupied Luhansk in 2015 and 2016 through the territory of the Russian Federation.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kuznetsov Roman Oleksandrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 December 29, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited three post-occupation trips to Crimea and family ties to occupied Sevastopol as basis for negative integrity finding.
"The Candidate crossed the administrative border with the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times after the start of occupation: KPVV 'Kalanchak': 12.08.2018 (exit) – 20.08.2018 (entry); KPVV 'Chaplynka': 24.10.2019 (exit) – 26.10.2019 (entry); KPVV 'Kalanchak': 19.08.2021 (exit) – 26.08.2021 (entry).
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shevyrina Tetiana Dmytrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 December 2, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited family trips to occupied Crimea after 2014 as integrity risk equivalent to visiting aggressor state territory
"The candidate and members of her family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent necessity... the candidate's father visited temporarily occupied RF territories (AR Crimea) 11.04.2017–23.04.2017 and 01.07.2017–10.09.2017. Besides this, the candidate's father-in-law... during 2018–2021 the candidate's father-in-law made 8 more trips to RF territory and 2 trips to temporarily occupied Crimea: 22.08.2018–30.08.2018 and 21.07.2019-27.07.2019.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Khaidarova Inna Oleksiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 November 23, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited judge's 249-day residence in post-annexation Crimea as primary basis for negative integrity finding.
"The judge was present on the territory of the RF-annexed Crimean peninsula for 249 days in the period 2014-2015. With high probability, the judge adhered to the occupying laws of the aggressor country, had security guarantees from the occupying authorities and used foreign currency as a means of payment on the territory of Ukraine. The judge's voluntary trip to occupied territory without urgent need and prolonged residence there only testify to the absence of a clear civic position of the judge regarding the occupation of part of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 November 11, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited post-occupation trips to Crimea and apartment ownership there as integrity violation basis.
"The candidate repeatedly crossed the administrative border after the occupation and accompanied his minor daughter to temporarily occupied Crimea and has an apartment there... The candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times through crossing point 601 (Chongar) between 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Rudenko Viktoriia Vasylivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 24, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited husband's undeclared farm in occupied Crimea as integrity violation
"Moreover, according to the Opendatabot database, he is the founder of the 'Sosman' farm, which conducts activities in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea... The totality of the stated facts — non-declaration of the actual husband in 2009-2021, his trips to the aggressor country in 2014-2015 and possible involvement in entrepreneurial activities in the occupied territory of Crimea — the PIC considers as evidence of the candidate's non-compliance with integrity criteria and professional ethics of a judge
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Yatsun Oleksandr Serhiiovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 16, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's family members' systematic visits to Russia and occupied Crimea as integrity violation.
"The candidate's father-in-law visited the territory of Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation during 17.06.2021–22.06.2021. In the conditions of ongoing armed aggression of the RF against Ukraine, the 'urgency of need' to visit the territory of the aggressor state or temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in each specific case must be assessed considering the predicted risks and threats.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 September 26, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited three trips to occupied Crimea in 2016 and undisclosed apartment in Partenit as primary integrity violations.
"State Border Guard Service data shows that the candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea through checkpoint 601 (Chongar) at least three times during 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016. The 2015 declaration did not specify the value of an apartment in Partenit (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) owned by my son.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Basova Vita Ivanivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 July 28, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC flagged candidate's brother's vacation trips to post-occupation Crimea as integrity concern
"The judge's brother traveled to Crimea after the occupation for vacation. Given the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, travel to the Russian Federation for purposes is not justified or ethical, just as trips to occupied Crimea for vacation purposes.
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LOW
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Lavreniuk Tetiana Anatoliivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 16, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited systematic post-occupation trips to Crimea to visit parents as primary basis for negative integrity conclusion.
"The judge visited temporarily occupied Crimea without urgent need after the start of armed aggression. The candidate and her family members visited the occupied Crimean peninsula after the start of Russian aggression. According to border crossing database data, from 2017 to 2020 the candidate together with her husband traveled to temporarily occupied Crimea 2-4 times per year, staying 1-2 weeks. In explanations to the HQCJ during the 2018 interview, the judge stated the purpose of these trips to occupied Crimea was visiting her parents who lived there.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Minaieva Kateryna Volodymyrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 May 18, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited mother's unexplained 1.2 million hryvnia investment in Yalta apartment as evidence of suspicious wealth sources
"the judge's mother, who according to the judge invested 1.2 million hryvnias (150 thousand dollars) in 2012-2014 in purchasing an apartment near Yalta from her own savings and salary at PJSC HC Kyivmiskbud, received only 180 thousand hryvnias and 176 thousand hryvnias per year respectively in 2013 and 2014 at Kyivmiskbud, which would have covered only a quarter of what was invested in the apartment
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Litvinov Serhii Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 April 1, 2025
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited judge's family trips to occupied Crimea in 2018-2020 as integrity violation for visiting occupied territory without urgent need
"repeated trips by the judge personally and his family, presumably for vacation purposes, to occupied Crimea in 2018-2020 violate the integrity criterion, according to which a judge cannot visit temporarily occupied territories without urgent need after the start of armed aggression, as this exposes his professional activity and state interests to risk
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Makarenko Volodymyr Viacheslavovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 November 17, 2024
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited grandmother's property sales in occupied Simferopol as basis for integrity concerns about wealth sources
"On 12.06.2014 the judge's grandmother sold an apartment with total area of 46.5 sq.m in Simferopol for 2,000,000 Russian rubles or approximately 683,400 hryvnias at the official ruble to hryvnia exchange rate from NBU. Also on 30.05.2014 the judge's grandmother sold a land plot with area of 0.0497 ha, located in Simferopol district, for presumably 750,000 Russian rubles (poor copy quality) or approximately 254,925 hryvnias at the official ruble to hryvnia exchange rate from NBU.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Dziuba Oleh Anatoliiovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 8, 2024
| 📍 Olha Veretilnyk voted in favor: PIC cited wife's business registration in occupied Sevastopol and Russian documentation as collaboration evidence.
"Using information from business aggregators, it was established that a person named "Dziuba Svetlana Vladimirovna" registered as an individual entrepreneur in Sevastopol on August 16, 2016, i.e., after the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russian forces, with the type of activity "production of other outerwear". According to the data, Dziuba S.V. in 2014 (not earlier than July 2014) obtained a Russian passport and an individual personal account insurance number (in Russian - SNILS), which is valid.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting