Ministry of Justice demands ban on Nash Krai: court bans movement of funds on party’s accounts
3 June 2024 13:08
The Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal has blocked the movement of funds on the accounts of the Nash Krai party at the request of the Ministry of Justice. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Justice, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“The decision of the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal of 21.05.2024 in case No. P/857/6/24 upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice to ban the activities of the Nash Krai political party,”
– the ministry said.
The court ruling refers to measures to secure the claim by prohibiting Privatbank, Oschadbank, the State Savings Bank of Ukraine, Megabank, Pivdennyi JSB, Bank Vostok, and Ukrgasbank from performing actions on accounts aimed at conducting expenditure transactions on any payment instruments until the case is resolved on the merits.
The ruling may be appealed to the Supreme Court as part of the panel of the Administrative Court of Cassation within ten days from the date of its publication.
It should be noted that the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal opened proceedings on the claim of the Ministry of Justice to ban the activities of the Nash Krai party.
The case is scheduled for consideration on 12 June, with Judge Vasyl Hulyak presiding.
What is known about the Nash Krai party?
“Nash Krai is a pro-Russian political party that was registered on 23 August 2011. Initially, the newly created party was called the “Blokovaya Party“, but it de facto appeared in 2014 when the “Blokovaya Party” was renamed to “Nash Krai”.
The party was co-founded by Oleksandr Mazurchak, Yuriy Hranaturov, Oleksandr Feldman, Anton Kisse and Serhiy Kalsev, who were members of the Party of Regions before the Revolution of Dignity.
“Nash Krai” was also unofficially called the “party of mayors”, as it elected many mayors in the 2015 elections.
A number of mayors who until recently represented the Party of Regions also joined the party. These include former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Saldo, former Mariupol mayor Yuriy Hotlubey, former Berdiansk mayor Volodymyr Chepurnyi, former mayors of Boryspil Anatoliy Fedorchuk and Chernihiv Oleksandr Sokolov.
In the early parliamentary elections in the summer of 2019, three representatives of the party became MPs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the IX convocation: Anton Kissé, Valeriy Davydenko and Serhiy Shakhov.
In the 2020 local elections, Nash Krai took seventh place with 1,937 seats in local councils.
In June 2022, the SBU uncovered a scheme in which the party’s chairman and the head of its territorial branch sold a seat to the Verkhovna Rada for $2.5 million.
