Zelenskyy appoints lawyer and anti-corruption agency detective to High Council of Justice

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed lawyer and academic Vitalii Makhinchuk and National Anti-Corruption Bureau detective Maksym Saviuk to the High Council of Justice.

Source: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration; Sudovo-Yurydychna Hazeta ("Judicial and Legal Newspaper")

Quote from the Deputy Prime Minister's Office: "This decision is an important step towards ensuring the full functioning of the High Council of Justice, a body that plays a significant role in Ukraine's democratic system.

The effective work of the High Council of Justice is linked, among other things, to the implementation of the Roadmap on the Rule of Law...

Currently, the High Council of Justice has 17 members. The High Council of Justice envisages 21 members. Therefore, four seats remain vacant."

Details: Prior to his appointment as a member of the Council of Justice, Vitalii Makhinchuk was acting director of the Fedir Burchak Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship at the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, according to Sudovo-Yurydychna Hazeta.

Makhinchuk was also deputy director of the Research Institute.

Since June 2024, he has been a deputy member of the Advisory Group of Experts (which conducts the preliminary selection of judges for the Constitutional Court of Ukraine) as nominated by the president.

Maksym Saviuk has been a senior detective in the First Main Detective Division of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine since 2016. He specialises in investigating criminal corruption offences committed in the judicial system and in the Prosecutor's Office.

Until 2016, Saviuk worked as an assistant judge at the Court of Appeal of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

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