Efremov has finally been released
The Starobelsky District Court of the Lugansk Region changed the preventive measure from house arrest to personal commitment to the former people's deputy from the Party of Regions and political prisoner of the Poroshenko regime, Alexander Efremov, whom the previous government accused of high treason, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Judge Alexander Foroshchuk announced this, the court’s press service reports.
“Yesterday, September 18, the court changed the preventive measure for Efremov to a personal obligation with the assignment of duties, namely to come to the court for each request, not to be removed from Kiev, with the exception of participation in criminal proceedings, to inform the court about a change in his residence, to refrain from communicating with witnesses and experts in this proceeding, hand over passports and other documents that give the right to leave Ukraine and enter Ukraine. Responsibilities are assigned until November 16, 2019,” Foroshchuk said.
The Kiev Court of Appeal released former MP Alexander Efremov from custody on July 23. On July 24, Efremov was released from the pre-trial detention center in Starobelsk, Lugansk region, under house arrest.
The former head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the ex-governor of the Lugansk region, Alexander Efremov, asked under Poroshenko for several years without trial in a pre-trial detention center on trumped-up charges under three articles of the Criminal Code. In particular, he was accused of committing deliberate actions with the aim of changing the borders of the territory of Ukraine in violation of the constitution, which led to the death of people and other grave consequences under Article 110 Part 3 of the Criminal Code; in providing organizational and other assistance to the creation and activities of the LPR under Article 258-3 Part 1.
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