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❗️The Supreme Court refused to appeal the plea agreement that Kravchenko made with former MP Khrystenko to attack the NABU/SAP
Judges of the Cassation Criminal Court within the Supreme Court denied the appeal of NABU detective Ruslan Mahamedrasulov’s defenders to review the sentence of former MP Fedor Khrystenko.
Mahamedrasulov’s lawyers contested in the Supreme Court the ruling of the Kyiv Court of Appeal. With that ruling, the appellate judges returned the defenders’ appeal against the sentence and the agreement with Khrystenko, saying that it does not concern Mahamedrasulov’s interests.
However, the panel of Supreme Court judges (Andriy Chystyk, Serhiy Yeremeychuk, and Halyna Kret) rejected Mahamedrasulov’s lawyers’ complaint at a closed hearing.
Now Khrystenko’s sentence and his plea agreement of guilt cannot be appealed.
“This results in an absurd situation: in Khrystenko’s agreement Mahamedrasulov is accused of serious crimes, but the courts say the agreement does not concern him. Prosecutors under Kravchenko have classified the court case and keep it at the Office of the Prosecutor General. Under these circumstances, the text of the sentence and all materials are controlled by the prosecutors, not the court. And the Supreme Court has simply legalized the possibility of removing court cases, which could lead to serious violations of human rights overall. Tomorrow any prosecutor could want to control court sentences by using this precedent,”
– adds Mahamedrasulov’s lawyer and Deputy Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Center, Olena Shcherban.
Here are more details about this case: https://antac.org.ua/news/verkhovnyy-sud-vidmovyv-v-oskarzhenni-uhody-zi-slidstvom-iaku-uklaly-eksnardep-vid-opzzh-khrystenko-ta-ekshenprokuror-kravchenko-vykliuchno-dlia-ataky-na-nabu-i-sap/
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