It's no secret that most large business assets are owned by companies with complex corporate structures, which makes it difficult to prove the connection between the asset and the ultimate beneficiary. This problem is particularly relevant for assets owned by sanctioned oligarchs in Ukraine.
The practice of the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACC) in confiscating these assets in connection with the application of sanctions clearly...
How the Russian trace of the company, which had been sold before the war, almost caused the confiscation of the business from its Ukrainian owners
One of the most resonant legal and economic news in recent days has become the HACC's refusal of the Ministry of Justice’s request to confiscate Khust and Zhezheliv Quarries. These assets were planned to be nationalised as a part of the process of confiscating russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s...
The author of this column, Andriy Sliusar, defended the interests of MP Yuriy Kamelchuk in this lawsuit.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine acquitted MP Yuriy Kamelchuk and found him not guilty of making false declarations. Earlier, prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's office suspected Mr Kamelchuk of failing to include an apartment he rented in Kyiv and a bank loan in the declaration.
Recently, prosecutors have...
In every motion to determine pretrial restriction, prosecutors refer to the practice of the European Court to justify human rights violations. They, actually, refer not really to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, but rather to some phrases taken out of context. The case against Andriy Kobolev is not an exception.
The European Convention on Human Rights was established to protect an individual from a state, not vice versa....
On November 14, 2022 the General Assembly of the UN approved its Resolution “Furtherance of remedy and reparation for aggression against Ukraine”.
As we have already analyzed in the previous publication, attention should particularly be paid to p. 4 of the Resolution under which “the General Assembly (…) recommends the creation by Member States, in cooperation with Ukraine, of an International Register of Damage to serve as a record, in...