“Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko will appeal to the Bar Qualification and Disciplinary Commission to file a complaint against the lawyer of suspect Artem Kosovo in the murder of 10-grader Maxim Mamterukhin at the Kiev Funiculator station.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Kravchenko after the court session on August 14, quotes Hromadske, Prosecutor General on social networks
Details: The meeting in the murder of a young man on a funicular on Thursday once again delayed through lawyers. Later it became known that the defenders of the suspect Artem Kosovo Dmitry Zemnitsa and Bogdan Kushnir would not come to court: the first terminated the contract and the other came out of the case “because of workload”.
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“We have already calculated that it was a sixth abuse of the right to defense, the sixth disruption of the court hearing, the defense counsel refused to defend the accused. We believe that this is an abuse of the right, it is a violation of the right to defense. We will contact the disciplinary commission of defenders to be punished and deprived of the law.
Ruslan Kravchenko came to a meeting of the Shevchenkivsky District Court on August 14 to personally represent the case.
After the lawyers of the suspect Artem Kosovo left the case, he was appointed a new free lawyer who asked for a house arrest for the client.
At the same time, the Prosecutor General requested the court to continue the suspect in custody for 2 months without determining the bail. In the end, the court decided to leave Kosovo until October 11.
During the break, the accused answered the questions of relatives of the dead teenager, activists and journalists. In particular, Kosov asked the mother of the deceased, but stated that he did not admit his blame.
The suspect in the murder of a teenager on the Kiev funicular calls for an “impartial case” – reports from the court our journalist from the courtroomVideo: Irina Sitnikova / Hromadske pic.twitter.com/kjc2ind9vm
– Hromadske (@hromadskeua) August 14, 2025
Prehistory:
- On April 7, 2024, a minor guy was killed at a funicular station because of a deadly neck. On the same day, the State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings on the death of a young man.
- Law enforcement officers reported suspicion of a deliberate murder of a discharged employee of the State Security Department, who pushed a teenager at the Kiev Funiculator station.
- On April 9, Tatiana Sapyan, the State Bureau of Investigation Bureau, reported on the national telephone that the accused of murder of a teenager did not admit her guilt, examination showed that he was drinking at the time of the crime.