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The court arrested the former head of the Constitutional Court Oleksandr Tupytskyi in absentia. Now he can be extradited from Austria

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Anna Kholodnova
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The Podil District Court of Kyiv arrested in absentia the former chairman and judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Oleksandr Tupytskyi. This allows requesting his extradition from Austria.

This was reported by the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.

According to the investigation, in October 2018, for selfish reasons and in the interests of his acquaintance, the former head of the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine, Tupytskyi bribed a witness to refuse to testify or give false testimony in the case of the illegal takeover of the Zuyiv Power Mechanical Plant.

In addition, throughout 2018-2019, Tupytskyi provided an investigator of the General Prosecutorʼs Office of Ukraine in the same proceeding with false statements combined with artificial creation of evidence.