“Will be transported from jail to the Rada”: court rules that Shufrych must work as an MP
28 December 05:46
Shevchenkivsky District Court, at the request of Nestor Shufrych, who is in jail, ordered him to fulfill his parliamentary powers. This was reported by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
He distributed a photo of a copy of the ruling, which states that Shufrych’s petition was partially granted.
The document states that those responsible for ensuring proper conditions during his detention are obliged to take measures to ensure Shufrich’s rights to “exercise the powers of a people’s deputy of Ukraine.” They specify that this must be done in the form and manner prescribed by law.
The ruling is not subject to appeal.
“So, as I understand it, now he will be transported from the pre-trial detention center to the Rada meetings? What a show!” the MP said.
However, it is not yet clear how the court’s decision can be enforced, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Therefore, the prosecutor’s office asked the court to explain the algorithm for executing this court decision.
What is known about the case of Nestor Shufrych
Nestor Shufrych is accused of treason and transferring funds to pay a security firm in the occupied Crimea in 2016.
“In 2016, in order to protect property on the temporarily occupied peninsula, the defendants organized the conclusion of a security contract with the illegal paramilitary formation of the occupation authorities in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea – FSUE “Okhrana” of the Russian Guard for the Republic of Crimea. Subsequently, they organized the transfer and transfer of more than 648.7 thousand Russian rubles to the Russian Federal Guard, which is involved in the war against Ukraine, for the protection of property,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said recently.
On Tuesday, September 3, prosecutors sent to court an indictment against Shufrych, a member of the Ukrainian parliament of the IX convocation from the banned OPFL political party. The MP’s aide will also be tried.
The defendants are in custody.
Shufrich himself has been in custody for almost a year. He does not admit his guilt. He considers the case to be politically motivated.
Nestor Shufrich
Nestor Shufrych is an MP from the OPFL party, which was banned in 2022. He is the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech. Formerly: Member of Parliament of many convocations, Minister of Emergencies of Ukraine (2006-2007, 2010), Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (2010-2012). He is an associate of Viktor Medvedchuk.
During his political career, he voiced a pro-Russian position and was a member of pro-Russian political parties: SDPU(o), the Party of Regions, and OPFL.
In 2013, he signed an appeal to the Polish Sejm from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party calling for “recognizing the Volyn tragedy as genocide against the Polish population and condemning the criminal acts of Ukrainian nationalists.”
He was involved in many fights in parliament and on television.
In 2017, he was accused by the Prosecutor General of tax evasion of UAH 40 million.
In 2019, he was accused of participating in an illegal safari in Africa, during which he allegedly killed endangered animals.
Since 2014, he has called the war in eastern Ukraine a “war between Ukrainians.”
At the beginning of the full-scale war, he was detained at a checkpoint in Kyiv when he tried to take a photo of it.
In 2019, he declared cash totaling UAH 137.48 million, including USD 2.45 million and EUR 2.3 million.
