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Medvedchuk handed motion on extension of his house arrest – Kuzmin
KYIV. Aug 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) – MP of the Opposition Platform – For Life faction Viktor Medvedchuk has been handed a petition to extend the term of house arrest, said his colleague from the faction, MP Renat Kuzmin.
"Today at 17:30, Medvedchuk received a new petition to extend the term of house arrest for another two months. Legal justification: Medvedchuk should be under arrest, because the prosecutor believes that he, Medvedchuk, may damage the materials of the criminal proceedings, with which the prosecutor’s office began to acquaint him," Kuzmin wrote on the Telegram channel on Tuesday.
As reported, On May 11, MPs Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak were notified that they were suspected of high treason and an attempt to misappropriate Ukrainian national resources in Crimea.
On May 12, Medvedchuk arrived at the Office of the Prosecutor General, got familiar with a copy of the suspicion presented to him and said that he did not intend to hide from the investigation, and that the suspicions were politically motivated.
On May 14, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv placed Medvedchuk under round-the-clock house arrest as a restraining measure.
Medvedchuk, in turn, filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights contesting the measures taken by the Ukrainian authorities, in particular, he accused the authorities of politically motivating his criminal prosecution, and later filed another lawsuit complaining of violation of the right to defense, the right to a fair trial and personal liberty.
