The defense wants to appeal the detention of Ephraim
The defense plans to Appeal the decision of the Kyiv court about the arrest of the former head of the faction of the former ruling Party of regions in the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Yefremov, said correspondents, His lawyer Alexander Melnikov, reports
case under the criminal code on Ephraim was opened back in the summer of last year. He is suspected of abuse of office Under aggravating circumstances and official forgery. Ex-MP on Sunday was arrested by the employees of the Prosecutor General's office and the security Service of Ukraine during a special operation in Kiev. The court ruled to deny freedom of Ephraim with enrollment Deposit in the amount of 3, 6 million (138 thousand dollars).
"The appeal is Clear, we submit," said the lawyer, when asked reporters whether to appeal the Protection of the decision of the Pechersk district court about the arrest of Ephraim.
The judge on the first day of the week come to a conclusion about the reasonableness of the suspicion of Ephraim. In her vision, there is a risk that the ex-Deputy abscond from the investigation and trial, can travel abroad. Because of this relative to ex-Deputy forbidden selected measure in the form of detention until 14 April with the definition of the collateral in 3, 6 million. When the Deposit Efremov be released from custody.
Sunday day party which was ruling When suspended a year earlier from the power of President Viktor Yanukovych, strongly demanded the release from custody of Ephraim, the cessation of pressure on other leaders of the opposition forces. As emphasized in the statement, similar ways of dealing with the opposition are required to call the condemnation from the entire progressive community. The authors of the statement appealed to the international and European structures with application to pay close attention to the current situation in Ukraine, where, under democratic slogans and With the connivance of significant Western politicians built a real dictatorship domestic " kleptocracy ".
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