“The Shevchenkiv District Court of the city of Kyiv ordered to grant the right to exercise parliamentary powers to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the banned party “OPZZH” Nestor Shufrych from the pre-trial detention center. He is accused of treason, and he will not be able to participate in the plenary meetings of the Council. This is evidenced by the decision of the Shevchenkiv District Court, a copy of which was published by Oleksiy, a People’s Deputy from the “European Solidarity” parliamentary faction.”, — write on: ua.news
The Shevchenkiv District Court of the city of Kyiv ordered to grant the right to exercise parliamentary powers to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine from the banned party “OPZZH” Nestor Shufrych from the pre-trial detention center. He is accused of treason, and he will not be able to participate in the plenary meetings of the Council.
This is evidenced by the decision of the Shevchenkivsky District Court, a copy of which was published by People’s Deputy from the “European Solidarity” parliamentary faction Oleksiy Honcharenko in Telegram.
“During the preparatory court hearing on the above criminal proceedings, the accused Shufrych N. AND. a petition has been filed to ensure his rights as a people’s deputy of Ukraine, in particular in terms of providing the opportunity to exercise deputy powers and participate in plenary sessions of the parliament,” the court’s decision reads.
The petition is due to the fact that the mandate of People’s Deputy Nestor Shufrych was not terminated in the manner prescribed by law. The People’s Deputy and his defenders demanded that he be given the right to exercise the powers of a deputy, in particular, they brought him from places of detention to meetings of the Verkhovna Rada and created conditions for using a working computer.
During the meeting, the court came to a conclusion regarding the permission to exercise the powers of the people’s deputy.
“… authority of Shufrych N. AND. as a people’s deputy in the manner prescribed by the Law of Ukraine “On the status of a people’s deputy” did not stop, and Shufrycha N.I. the court verdict found him not guilty of committing the incriminated offenses, therefore, in the sense of Art. 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the guilt of the latter in committing any offenses has not been proven at this time. Therefore, the court came to the conclusion that in order to exercise the rights of the accused Shufrych N. I., who is a people’s deputy of Ukraine, there are all legal grounds for the obligation of the authorized persons responsible for ensuring proper conditions during the detention of the accused in custody within the framework of the applied preventive measure, to take measures to ensure the latter’s rights regarding his exercise of the powers of a people’s deputy of Ukraine in the form and in the manner determined by the current legislation,” the document states.
At the same time, Shufrych’s demands to bring him from the pre-trial detention center to the plenary sessions of the Verkhovna Rada and to create conditions for using a work computer were not met.
Now, a parliamentarian can exercise his parliamentary powers only within the framework of his stay in the pre-trial detention center.
In addition, the court sent the decision to the Verkhovna Rada for consultations, “…because, according to the regulations, a people’s deputy can vote on draft laws only in the session hall. That is, Shufrych will not be able to vote. But theoretically, he can participate online, for example, in Committee meetings. Whether to submit draft laws and resolutions through assistants,” Honcharenko explained.
We will remind that on November 14, people’s deputy Nestor Shufrych was extended the preventive measure in the form of detention.
The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the State Bureau of Investigation and the Prosecutor General’s Office, collected a well-argued evidence base of Shufrych’s anti-Ukrainian activities. According to the SBU materials, he was informed of the suspicion under Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason). People’s deputy from OPZZ Nester Shufrych is accused of financing the Russian Guard in Crimea.