Tsukerman filed a lawsuit against Zelenskyy, but the court stayed the proceedings

Oleksandr Tsukerman, a person involved in the "Midas case," has filed a lawsuit with the Cassation Administrative Court within the Supreme Court against President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeking to overturn the decree under which sanctions were imposed on Tsukerman. However, the court left the application without motion, as the content of the lawsuit does not provide proper justification as to which rights, freedoms, or interests are being violated regarding Tsukerman, UNN reports. 

Details 

Tsukerman filed the lawsuit under number 990/184/26 on May 15. In the lawsuit, Tsukerman demands that the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 843/2025 dated 13.11.2025, which imposed sanctions on Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman, be declared unlawful. 

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However, as early as May 19, the Cassation Administrative Court within the Supreme Court refused to open the lawsuit for Tsukerman and ruled to leave the application without motion. 

The ruling states that Tsukerman, through a lawyer, requested to declare unlawful, invalid, and to cancel the Presidential decree in the part concerning the introduction of sanctions against him. 

In support of the claims, the plaintiff's representative noted that sanctions may be applied to foreign states, foreign legal entities, legal entities under the control of foreign persons, foreigners, stateless persons, as well as entities engaged in terrorist activities, whereas their application to citizens of Ukraine is permitted only in exceptional cases expressly provided by law. 

In view of the above, the application of sanctions to the plaintiff, in his opinion, contradicts the requirements of the Law of Ukraine "On Sanctions," as the plaintiff does not belong to the circle of persons to whom the relevant restrictive measures can be applied, nor does he fall under the cases in which their application to citizens of Ukraine is permitted.

Having examined the materials of the lawsuit, the court established that it does not meet the requirements 

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff's representative stated that the sanctions applied to the plaintiff in the form of asset blocking, prevention of capital withdrawal outside Ukraine, suspension of economic and financial obligations, restriction of trade operations, prohibition of securities transactions, prohibition of increasing the authorized capital of business entities, and prohibition of acquiring ownership of land plots restrict the plaintiff in the exercise of his right to property.

However, the content of the submitted lawsuit does not show proper justification regarding other sanctions applied to the plaintiff, namely, it does not specify which rights, freedoms, or interests of the plaintiff are violated by each of the relevant restrictive measures, what specifically such violation consists of, and how the application of these sanctions affects his legal status. Under such circumstances, the lawsuit must be left without motion, and a ten-day period from the date of receipt of a copy of the said court ruling must be set for the plaintiff to eliminate its deficiencies by filing a new version of the lawsuit indicating the justifications for the violation of the plaintiff's rights, freedoms, and interests by the contested decree 

Recall 

On November 10, the NABU and SAPO reported on an operation to expose a corruption scheme of influence on strategic state sector enterprises, in particular, JSC "NAEK "Energoatom". The operation was named "Midas".

The NABU released "tapes" in a large-scale corruption case in the energy sector, where code names are mentioned. Meanwhile, the SAPO showed an "interesting artifact" with Russian symbols, which law enforcement officers found during a search in the office of one of the co-organizers of the corruption scheme.

The SAPO later disclosed details, noting that the main activity of the criminal organization was the systematic receipt of unlawful benefits from "Energoatom" contractors in the amount of 10 to 15% of the contract value. 

Law enforcement officers established that the function of legalizing illegally obtained funds was assigned to a separate office of the criminal organization located in the center of Kyiv. "In total, about 100 million USD passed through the so-called 'laundry'," the NABU said.