Oleksandr Tupytskyi

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Tupytskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Миколайович Тупицький; born 28 January 1963) is a Ukrainian former official, lawyer, and judge who had been the 12th chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine from 2019 to 2022. On 29 December 2020, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed Tupytskyi from the post of Chairman of the Constitutional Court for a period of two months, but the Constitutional Court ruled the decision of the President illegal and refused to comply with the decree. The suspension was extended for a period of one month by the Decree of the President of Ukraine. At the same time, together with his wife, he has been under US visa sanctions in connection with "significant acts of corruption" and "receiving a monetary bribe while working in the Ukrainian judicial system.". On 14 May 2013, he was appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine by President Viktor Yanukovych. He had been the deputy chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to 2018 to 2019. He is a candidate of sciences in public administration as of 2009.