Marina Barsuk, a candidate for the post of chairman of the Northern Court of Economic Appeals, has come under the crosshairs of the public and the media community due to her connections with influential personalities such as Oleg Fuchs and Igor Kolomoiskyi, as well as an impressive fleet of vehicles and significant amounts of cash listed in her declarations .
An example is the declaration of the judge of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal, Maryna Barsuk. Who declared a whole collection of real estate, a solid car fleet and a truly huge amount of cash. Formally, of course, you will not get attached - the property belongs to Maryna Barsuk personally, and the money does not go beyond her judge's salary - according to the declaration last year, she earned 2,011,609 hryvnias. All other property and assets included in the declaration belong mainly to Maryna Barsuk's husband, successful lawyer Viktor Barsuk.
Before looking into the declaration, I would like to ask a simple question - is no one in the justice system embarrassed by the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk represents the interests of his clients in the same court where his wife, Marina Barsuk, works as a judge? No one sees, to put it mildly, any contradiction and conflict of interests in such a family arrangement? However, be that as it may, lawyer Viktor Barsuk is the real head of the judge-lawyer family, who brings to the family coffers the lion's share of the benefits that his wife, due to the position she holds, was forced to include in the declaration.
According to the declaration of judge Maryna Barsuk, her family owns four apartments in Kyiv and one in Great Britain - the son of Maryna Anatoliivna, Pryvalov Timur Artemovich, lives in the latter. Who is probably studying to be a pilot or a tanker driver - it can't be that the son of a Ukrainian judge evades mobilization, right?
The family also has a parking space, a garage, a residential building and three plots of land. All are in Kyiv. According to the declaration, all this is estimated at 30,117,983 hryvnias. Moreover, one of the apartments in Kyiv was bought for 12,746 hryvnias. According to the declaration, of course.
The car fleet was also not up to speed - Judge Barsuk's family drives good cars. Only on "Mercedes", of which there are four in the family, all are brand new. Of course, judge Maryna Barsuk herself cannot afford such a luxury because of her small salary, so the cars are someone else's, and their owners give her the opportunity to use them. We have such good people in the country.
As far as money is concerned, the lawyer-judge family is not in trouble either.
Maryna Anatoliivna herself declared 455,000 hryvnias and 44,000 dollars in cash, she also has a bank deposit of 130,517 hryvnias. The man, as befits the head of the family, is richer - he has a total of 600,000 dollars, 500,000 euros, 2,000,000 hryvnias and 350,000 Swiss francs. In cash, of course.
There was also an interesting story with gifts in the family - Maryna Barsuk's father-in-law, pensioner Mykola Vasyliovych Barsuk, gave his son (that is, the judge's husband) Viktor Mykolayovych Barsuk a non-monetary gift worth 20,051,060 hryvnias, and he, in turn, gave his beloved wife, Maryna Barsuk.
It is interesting, of course, what it was and why no one at the NAZK inquired about how a pensioner with an annual pension of 80,166 hryvnias has the opportunity to give such gifts.
Actually, the box opens quite simply. In addition to the fact that lawyer Viktor Barsuk conducts most of his cases in the court where his wife, Maryna Barsuk, works as a judge, there are other reasons for the family's well-being. And they also lie on the surface.
In 2021, judge Maryna Barsuk was spotted at the birthday party of Pavel Fuchs, who at that time had several lawsuits pending in the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal. Fuchs' interests were represented in this court by lawyer Viktor Barsuk, in whose company Marina Barsuk appeared at Fuchs's party.
This is not the only "coincidence" - according to the media, Viktor Barsuk is a member of the legal team of Ihor Kolomoiskyi, a large part of whose cases were considered in the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal. What decisions were made regarding them is clear to everyone. One of the episodes was the scandal regarding the Poltava GZK, where Barsuk acted in favor of Kolomoisky and Babakov's Russian criminal and financial group.
The irony is that at the same time, Marina Barsuk is giving an interview about "improving the business climate in Ukraine."
However, Maryna Barsuk entered the public sphere for a reason - she is applying for the position of the chairman of the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal, where she is currently a judge-speaker.
Will Marina Barsuk manage to make a career move and head the court in which she so honestly and incorruptibly judges clients represented by lawyer Viktor Barsuk? There is no answer yet, but we will soon find out. At least, Maryna Anatoliivna has all the prerequisites for such an appointment. Judging by the declaration, she is a crystal honest person who lives on one salary. And the rest is pure water.
