Position: Judge of the Rakhiv district court of Zakarpattia region.
Sphere of corruption activity: Debt collection.
Region of corruption activity: City of Rakhiv.
Qualification: Part 2 Art. 369. Acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit. It is punishable by a fine of two to five and a half thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens or imprisonment for a term of two to five years.
Status: In February 2021, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison with confiscation of property, and in November, the Appeals Chamber of the Central Administrative Court reduced the sentence to 5 years in prison, with a ban on serving as a judge for 3 years and confiscation of all his property.
On July 13, 2022, the Court of Cassation completely overturned the verdict of the previous instances, lifted the arrest of the property and released Ivan Tulyk from custody. The court justified its decision by the fact that the indictment against Tulyk was sent to the court in violation of the investigation period.
The plot of the case: Ivan Tulyk was detained in March 2019 for receiving a bribe of 10,000 hryvnias from a local resident for not bringing him to administrative responsibility for driving a vehicle while intoxicated.
The size of the bribe of 10,000 hryvnias was equivalent to the fine for this offense, but in this way the offender avoided punishment in the form of deprivation of driving a vehicle for 1 year.
It should be noted that Ivan Tulyk did not personally consider this proceeding, but assured the violator that it could influence the judge who will consider it. Before the start of the court session, the violator handed Ivan Tulyk a bribe of 10,000 hryvnias in his office. After receiving the bribe, Ivan Tulyk was detained, the bribe was discovered in his office.
Judge Ivan Tulyk pleaded not guilty, stating that the money received was allegedly a returned debt and not a bribe.
After the announcement of Ivan Tulik's suspicions, the Supreme Council of Justice suspended him from his post. But after the cancellation of the prison sentence, Ivan Tulyk continued to work as a judge.
Persons potentially involved in corruption schemes: Ivan Tulyk's colleague, a judge of the Rakhiv District Court of Zakarpattia Oblast, who was supposed to consider a petition for an administrative offense. But there is no information about another judge in open sources.
Assets: In his declaration for 2023, Ivan Tulyk indicated that he has a Romanian passport.
Presumably, based on the previous experience, when according to the decision, which was later canceled, Ivan Tulyk had all his property confiscated, he no longer owns anything except a 45-year-old VAZ car. All property is registered to his wife and son, namely: a residential building with an area of 105 square meters. m, purchased in 2012 for 890,139 thousand hryvnias, registered to his wife Elena Tulyk.
The family also owns 5 plots of land with a total area of 25,024 thousand square meters, one apartment with an area of 53 square meters. m and a garage, which are also owned by Olena's wife.
The family owns three cars. A 1979 VAZ, a 2019 Haval car worth UAH 570,000 owned by his wife Olga, and a 2003 Audi car worth UAH 60,000 owned by his son Ivan Tulyk.
Ivan Tulyk indicated the pension in the amount of UAH 129,306, which he received in 2023, as the main source of his income. It should be noted that the salary received as a judge is not indicated in the declaration, although the place of employment is indicated in the declaration - the Rakhiv District Court of Zakarpattia Oblast.
The family of judge Ivan Tulyk keeps 500,000 hryvnias and 6,303,000 dollars in cash.
Scandals: There is no information in open sources about other scandals related to judge Ivan Tulyk, except for his receiving a bribe of 10 thousand hryvnias.
Persons who should have reacted to Ivan Tulyk's corrupt actions: We note that law enforcement agencies reacted to Ivan Tulyk's corrupt actions. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison, but the Court of Cassation released him from serving his sentence.
Sources:
The Supreme Court overturned the sentence of a prisoner for bribing a judge from Transcarpathia