Darnytsky district court of Kyiv sentenced one of the leaders of the “titushki” Yuriy Krysin to eight years in prison.
“Yuriy Krysin was sentenced to eight years in prison, the civil suit was partially satisfied,” lawyer Pavlo Dykan wrote on Facebook.
According to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, “the verdict was passed against a civilian participant in opposition to peaceful protest actions, who was found guilty of organizing and complicit in the kidnapping and torture of a Kyiv resident in January 2014”.
The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that the court proved that the accused was the organizer of a group of so-called “titushki” who were brought in to oppose peaceful protests.
“They mistakenly recognized a Kyiv resident for a participant in Euromaidan, kidnapped him from the Petrivka metro station in Kyiv, and transported the victim to their base on Kollektorna Street near the Boryspilska metro station. There the man was tortured while being demanded to provide information on the scheme of organizing rallies in the center of the capital, the distribution of roles, and the like. Some of the members of this group have already received convictions,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
By a court decision, the accused was found guilty of aiding and abetting torture (parts 4, 5, Article 27, part 2, Article 127 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and sentenced to seven years in prison. At the same time, taking into account the previous verdict of the Kyiv Court of Appeal, by which he was found guilty of committing hooliganism by a group of persons with the use of weapons against journalist Viacheslav Veremiy, the court finally sentenced him to eight years in prison.
The same decision of the court partially satisfied the civil claim of the victim. Now the verdict has not entered into legal force.
In these criminal proceedings, he was also accused of opposing peaceful protests, kidnapping, as well as committing hooliganism (Article 340, part 2 of Article 146, part 2 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), but earlier a decision was made by the court to discontinue production on this part due to expiration of the statute of limitations.
As reported, on February 19, 2014, a journalist for the Vesti newspaper Viacheslav Veremiy was killed in Kyiv – he died in an ambulance hospital from a gunshot wound to the stomach.
On August 9, 2016, investigators of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, as part of a pretrial investigation in criminal proceedings into the commission of crimes by “titushki” during the events on the Maidan in Kyiv in winter 2014, issued a notice of suspicion of organizing the persecution of journalists to a citizen of Ukraine, a native of Dagestan, Jalal Aliyev.
The second person involved in the murder of a journalist is a citizen of Ukraine Yuriy Krysin.
