On the pages of her blog, well-known Ukrainian journalist Svetlana Kryukova comments on the decision of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions against several Ukrainian citizens, including well-known businessmen and media personalities.
Svetlana Kryukova notes that these sanctions will not significantly affect their lives, as they do not depend on Ukrainian companies, banks, and the public sector.
“They can travel, officially rent yachts for cruises in the Mediterranean, book luxury hotels, educate their children in expensive schools in the UK and Austria, as well as enjoy their bourgeois lifestyle in all available ways. Vice versa, these people have become a clear example for the progressive capitalist world of how obsolete the NSDC is and how ill-conceived Zelensky’s decision was, when he decided to expel highly qualified, wealthy, and efficient people from the country, who take their top managers and their families with them and begin to assimilate and invest abroad,” writes Svetlana Kryukova.
The journalist also notes the fact that European banks ignore the decisions of the National Security and Defense Council, and the very same financial Institutions do not block accounts of these people.
“The thing is that the EU countries will never, under any circumstances, legalize this quasi-judicial process, invented by modern reformers. If you can confirm your income and if you are not burdened with criminal cases, you won’t have any issues. The EU tends to consider sanctions as a criminal manual tool that does not fall under the rules of democracy and legal practice of the EU countries. The EU is the world of the rule of law and the independence of the judicial system, so Europe demands that any restrictive measures against citizens should be based on judicial decisions and not on political decrees,” writes Svetlana Kryukova.
She also recalls that not a single EU country has ever imposed sanctions against its own citizens in its entire period of existence. In all matters of justice, according to the old tradition, they use the Code of Criminal Procedure and the decisions of local courts, so the EU considers sanctions against its own citizens to be something impossible while supporting solely the rule of law. That is why the EU’s GDP is still showing small but steady growth from year to year.
“Moreover, Western countries have generously invested in the development of law enforcement agencies and the reform of the judicial system. In fact, this is the fourth reason why everyone has a legitimate question: Why do we need so many prosecutors and investigators if we have the Security Council that easily eliminates anyone, who dares to say something about Bankovaya Street, without trial or investigation, without opening criminal cases, without evidence and the right to react on unasserted claims?
In other words, they put a giant stamp on your forehead and do not explain why you are enslaved to the system, why your property was seized (even though it was not transferred abroad or registered on behalf of other people), why you are deprived of the right to live with your children, and so on. The thing is that the EU will never accept it. At the same time, they will like the law on establishing the personal responsibility of a group of officials who participated in criminal acts against citizens of Ukraine, sealed with their signatures and promises,” adds Svetlana Kryukova.
