Or the strange reaction of Kyiv Deputy Prosecutor Vladimir Gogol to citizens' appeals.
An honorary employee of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine and the permanent deputy of every Kyiv prosecutor since 2005, Vladimir Vasilievich Gogol has become so entrenched in his position that, not only but despite the victory of the "revolution of dignity," he allows himself to employ rather bizarre methods in his work. And the more public dissatisfaction with his work there is, the more confident the prosecutor is about the future.
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It seems like a small matter, but how telling: in the unequal battle between ordinary citizens and prosecutors parking their cars on sidewalks, crosswalks, and on the lawns outside the Moscow Prosecutor's Office building, the prosecutors are winning. Not only do the blue uniforms fail to consider resolving this issue in a civilized manner, so that people can walk around without getting hurt (and there have been such cases), but they also send all the victims packing, using papers.
So, they couldn't get the capital's prosecutor's office to resolve this problem, so citizens put their hopes in and turned to the Prosecutor General's Office.
The typical process and fate of one of the appeals to the prosecutor's office looks like this.
First, the head of the GPU forwards the letter to the "culprit," that is, to the capital's prosecutor's office, without even taking control of the progress and results of the investigation, only to reply to the authors.
Then the head of the Kyiv prosecutor's office, also without bothering with any formal response, forwards everything to the Kyiv Pechersk District Prosecutor's Office for a patently meaningless response. After all, what can a district prosecutor's office do to city employees?
The district deputy prosecutor then forwarded the letter to the district police department. About a month and a half later, the head of the police department wrote back that the parking lot at the Druzhby Narodiv Bulvar metro station was being cleaned up (for reference, this station is located several kilometers from the Kyiv prosecutor's office). Finally, dismissing the public outrage, Kyiv Deputy Prosecutor Vladimir Gogol summed it up: "All possible measures are being taken."
And this isn't unusual for today's unsubscribers. However, if we recall Gogol's "dislike" of such appeals to "people on the roads," everything immediately falls into place.
Hear the Public: Kick "Road Control"
Since 2010, Vladimir Gogol has been mired in scandals involving members of the public organization "Road Control," so much so that the matter even reached the Prosecutor General's Office. This is all because, for some reason, Gogol tried so hard to protect his colleagues from the prosecutor's office, even though the courts had ruled against them.
One such example is Alexei Kiriyenko, one of the movement's activists, who suddenly disappeared before the New Year. As it turned out later, he was placed in a special detention center and sentenced to three days under Article 185 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Criminal Procedure)—malicious disobedience to a police officer. According to the court ruling, he "violated traffic rules, failed to respond to warnings, used obscene language, and, upon arrest, started a fight, thereby committing malicious disobedience to police officers."
In fact, everything happened like this: at approximately 8:30 a.m. on December 24, 2011, after taking his child to school, Alexey Kiriyenko, returning home, saw a GAZ traffic police patrol, ID 2249, standing at the intersection of Shumsky and Bereznyakovskaya, violating traffic rules and stopping every car in a row.
Having parked his car around the corner, Kiriyenko picked up his cell phone and began silently recording the violation. A traffic police officer saw this, then four of his comrades grabbed the activist, dragged him to their car, and took him to the police station.
The traffic police confiscated the DK activist's cell phone and erased the recording of the entire incident. After the police, Alexei was taken to court and then straight to a detention center. By lunchtime, the activist was already in jail…
So, the prosecutor's office defended the traffic police. The Dniprovskyi District Prosecutor's Office ignored every argument from "Road Control." To convict someone, all that's required is a ticket, traffic police reports, and written statements from citizens without passports or any other documents. No one needs to be questioned, no lawyer is needed, and no truth-telling is required.
The activists did not leave this matter to chance and, in accordance with current legislation, they were given the right to file a complaint with a higher authority, in this case the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, which was obligated to conduct an independent investigation and provide a response.
However, the capital's prosecutor's office, represented by Vladimir Gogol, continued to ignore absolutely all of Road Control's arguments, and in a letter, he himself stated the following: "There are no grounds for taking any reactive measures, including those related to the employees of the Dniprovsky District Prosecutor's Office."
"DK" went further and filed a complaint addressed to the Kyiv City Prosecutor, stating that current laws do not prohibit the prosecutor's office from issuing a protest against a court decision if a citizen has filed an appeal.
In short, the court delayed issuing a decision (after all, it was against the prosecutor's office), so to prevent the activists from reaching the Prosecutor General's Office, the very prosecutors whose decisions were being contested were tasked with reviewing the complaints! So it turned out that when challenging Gogol's decision, they received a response from Gogol himself!
After such impudence from the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, DK nevertheless filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office and a lawsuit with the District Administrative Court.
And what about the Prosecutor General's Office? Having received a complaint identical in text to the lawsuit, the Prosecutor General's Office simply forwarded it to the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office for review.
The picture that emerges is this: the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office assigns your complaints to the same prosecutor, preventing you from moving up the ladder. When you send a complaint about the Prosecutor's Office to the General Prosecutor's Office, it's passed back down the drain, and the cycle continues. And all thanks to people like Gogol!
Following the above, the Prosecutor's Truth has the following questions:
Have Kyiv prosecutors even seen the Law on Citizens' Appeals, and why do Kyiv Deputy Prosecutor Vladimir Gogol and his colleagues systematically violate it?
— How much longer will Prosecutor Gogol continue to persecute people who prevent him from parking his car peacefully, or the activists who monitor traffic violations by people like him?
— Does a prosecutor with such a surname really have the conscience to answer people in writing like that?
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