The US State Department imposed sanctions against the head of the Kyiv District Administrative Court, Pavlo Vovk, and two of his closest relatives — "for demanding bribes in exchange for interference in judicial and other state processes."
The State Department announced this on December 9.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine suspects the head of the District Administrative Court Vovk and other judges of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv — Ablov, Pogribnichenko, Celeberda, Ogurtsov, Kachur and Sanin — of corruption and attempts to seize state power. On July 17, 2020, NABU presented a recording of the conversations between Vovka and the judges of the Court, and later new recordings were made public. On the same day, NABU employees searched the court, after which Vovka and his deputy Yevhen Ablov were informed of the suspicion. The case is currently under consideration in court.
- On April 3, 2021, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted to the Council as an urgent draft law on the liquidation of the Kyiv District Administrative Court. Zelensky emphasized that the OASK was never able to regain trust in itself and called the proposal itself a signal for any court that "betrayed respect for the law." Instead of the District Administrative Court of Ukraine, the president proposes to form the Kyiv City District Administrative Court.