Kyiv Court of Appeals has taken a decision to free from custody Verkhovna Rada MP of the 8th convocation Serhiy Pashynsky, who is suspected of causing a grave body harm to an individual, and put him under 24-hour house arrest.
The court took the respective decision at its hearing on December 18 granting a motion of Pashynsky’s lawyer Andriy Fedur.
“The court decided to partially grant an appeal of lawyer Fedur,…to cancel a ruling of Pechersky District Court in Kyiv to extend keeping in custody of Pashynsky Serhiy by January 29, 2020,…to apply to suspect in the criminal case Pashynsky Serhiy a measure of restraint in a form of a house arrest banning him to leave his house located in the village of Khotiv of Vasylkivsky district of Kyiv region, at 2V Tsentralna Street,” chief judge reads a court’s decision.
In addition, Pashynsky was obliged until February 3, 2020 to communicate not with the victim and witnesses, hand over his passport, to wear an electronic control device (electronic bracelet) and to arrive upon request. The court decided to immediately bring Pashynsky from the courtroom to the address indicated in the decision.
On October 4, 2019, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) notified Pashynsky of suspicion of causing injury to a man in Kyiv region. The SBI report indicated that on December 31, 2016, in the Kyiv region there was a verbal conflict between the then MP and a citizen, during which Pashynsky shot the man in the left leg with a Glock-19 pistol. As a result, the victim received a gunshot fragmentation fracture of the femur of the left leg. According to the forensic report, bodily harm inflicted is serious.
On October 10, State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) Director Roman Truba said the “Pashynsky case” could be requalified, noting the victim for two and a half years was not recognized as such.
