The judge received his first Russian passport in 1999, when he had already been a judge in Ukraine for six years.
The Security Service of Ukraine confirmed that the head of the Cassation Economic of the Supreme Court of Ukraine judge Bohdan Lvov of the citizenship of the Russian Federation.
“The SBU informed the Supreme Court that, based on the results of the inspection, it was established that Bohdan Yuriyovych Lvov received a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation No. 4512799636 dated 17.10 .2012, which was extended by Lviv B.Yu. instead of the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, which has lost its validity, No. 4598589684 dated 22.07.1999”, – says the official message of the special service.
Also, judge Lviv has a tax number of the Russian Federation 774319527956, which is contained in the register of real estate transactions in of Russia regarding an apartment in Moscow at the address of st. Leningrad highway 88.
“This shows that the judge of Lviv, B.Yu. citizenship of the Russian Federation according to the data of the Russian Federation registers,” the agency emphasized.
In the meantime, the investigation of the judge is continuing, the results of which are promised to be announced later.
At the same time, on Monday, October 3, at 12:00 p.m. meetings of the judges of the Cassation Economic Court as part of the Supreme Court, which will consider the dismissal of judge B. Yu. Lvivfrom the post of chairman of the Cassation Economic Court as part of the Supreme Court.
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We remind you that the journalists of the “Schemes” project established that judge Bohdan Lviv has Russian citizenship. Having received a Russian passport in the 90s, he not only did not give it up while climbing the career ladder in the Ukrainian justice system, but on the contrary, he renewed it in 2012 and his document is still not listed in the register of invalids. Lviv himself denied for a long time that he had citizenship of an enemy crane.
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At the same time, the majority of judges of the Cassation Economic Court as part of the Supreme Court at the meeting on September 19 did not support the introduction of the question of expressing confidence or no confidence in their chief judge into the agenda Bohdan Lviv. The judges decided not only not to deprive Bohdan Lviv of his mantle, but alsoto keep him in the position of chairman, although they limited his access to state secrets.
