High Council of Justice to consider permission to arrest judge involved in fatal accident in Kyiv

On Saturday, the High Council of Justice will consider a submission on permission to arrest Judge Aleksey Tandyr, who on the night of May 26 knocked down a National Guardsman to death at a checkpoint in Kyiv.

Source: High Council of Justice

Details: At a meeting on May 27, the High Council of Justice will consider the submission of Deputy Prosecutor General Anton Voytenko on granting consent to the detention of the chairman of the Makarovsky District Court of the Kyiv Region Oleksiy Tandyra.

What came before: The court granted the request of the prosecutor’s office to forcibly take biological samples from the judge.

Tandyr was suspected of committing a fatal accident while intoxicated under Part 3 of Art. 286-1 of the UKU. He faces imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years with deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a term of 5 to 10 years.

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Background:

• On the night of May 26, Alexei Tandyr, Chairman of the Makarovsky District Court of the Kyiv Region, knocked to death a National Guardsman at a checkpoint in the capital.
• The investigation into the case will be carried out by the State Bureau of Investigation under the procedural leadership of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office. The RBI reported that the judge refused to undergo an on-the-spot inspection. He was taken to the hospital in order to determine the state of intoxication.
• According to a source in the National Guard, a judge in a Lexus crashed into a military man when he went out onto the road to install engineering barriers, a source in the National Guard told Suspilny. The judge was drunk, and empty bottles of alcohol were lying in his car.