Oleksandr Tupytskyi

At the same time, together with his wife, he has been under US visa sanctions in connection with "significant acts of corruption" and "receiving a monetary bribe while working in the Ukrainian judicial system.".

[6] The decision was harshly criticized by Ukrainian and international politicians, experts and journalists, seeing it as an attack on the fight against corruption in Ukraine.

On 7 November 2020, activists of the NGO "Anti-Corruption Center" came to his house in Vasylkiv, registered as his mother-in-law, and, after clashes with the police, installed a gallows near the fence.

[8] On 20 December, Zelenskyi signed a decree on the suspension of Tupytskyi for two months from the post of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, based on a request from the Prosecutor General's Office.

[12][13] On 19 January 2021 employees of the State Security Department did not allow Tupytskyi to enter the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and his office, after which he called the police and wrote a statement about "obstructing him in the performance of official duties.

[25] The European Solidarity party explained the appeal to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine with the intention to prevent the "usurpation of power" by Zelensky.

In the lawsuit, he demanded that the Constitutional Court's inaction regarding the non-payment of wages in the period from 18 April to 28 August 2020 be recognized as illegal.

[29] On 9 December 2021, the US Treasury Department added Tupytskyi, along with the former deputy head of President Yanukovych's Administration Andriy Portnov, to the sanctions list, accusing him of using influence to make custom decisions in courts and undermining the reform of the judicial system.

[31] In December 2020, the "Schemes" program published a recording of Tupytskyi's conversation about involvement in referee fraud and receiving bribes, conducted by the SBU.

[32] Tupytsky convinced the witness not to testify to the law enforcement officers and talked about business schemes in which he was probably involved.

[37] On 26 March the Chairman of the NAKC, Oleksandr Novikov, drew up a protocol regarding Tupytskyi, because he canceled the meeting of the Constitutional Court, which was supposed to consider the appeal of the State Bureau of Investigation about his commission of a misdemeanor.

In July 2021, the SBI reported that it was investigating Tupytskyi for involvement in two more criminal offenses — in particular, regarding the possible arbitrary assignment of power and interference in the automated distribution of court cases.

[42] On 10 January 2021 the publication "Censor.net" published a report about Tupytskyi's vacation at the royal villa in Dubai, the cost of which is over ₴300,000 per day.

[45] He has publications on state mechanisms to improve the quality of professional training of judges, economic law, and problematic issues of constitutional justice.