The employees of the department for investigation into crimes committed during the mass protests in Kyiv in 2013-2014 of the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) jointly with the prosecutors of a relevant department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO) on March 6 have notified a former head of Kyiv’s Dniprovsky District Court of suspicion.
“Ex-head of the court is suspected of being involved in organization of issuing deliberately unjust rulings by judges of the court (Part 3 of Article 27 and Part 2 of Article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), illegal prevention of organization and holding meetings, rallies, street marches and demonstrations upon a preliminary collusion with a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 28 and Article 340 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), illegal intrusion into work of automated records system of the court (Part 3 of Article 27 and Part 1 of Article 376-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” the SBI said on March 6.
According to the investigation, the former head of Dniprovsky District Court, who is currently a lawyer, on February 19, 2014 organized an illegal intrusion into the automated records system of the court D-3 and issuing of unjust rulings against eleven illegally detained citizens to prevent them from participation in the organization and holding of peaceful meetings, rallies, street marches and demonstrations in Kyiv.
“If he is proved guilty, the suspect may be sentenced to five to eight years in prison,” the SBI said.
