They don’t abandon their own: the Rada committee refused to lift Lutsenko’s immunity from the people’s deputy from the “People’s Front”
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Regulations refused the Prosecutor General’s Office to give consent to lift parliamentary immunity from the people’s deputy from the “People’s Front” and ex-battalion commander of the “Peacemaker” battalion, Yevgeny Deydey.
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The committee made this decision based on the results of today’s meeting on the “Deydeya case.” The majority of committee members voted for this decision.
“The Committee believes that the proposal of the prosecutor’s office to provide consent to prosecute MP Evgeniy Sergeevich Deydey, which was introduced by Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko ... is insufficiently motivated, unfounded and one that does not contain specific facts. The conclusions are based on assumptions, and the legality of obtaining evidence is questionable, which cannot confirm the fact that a people’s deputy of Ukraine committed a criminal offense under Article 368 Part 3 of the Criminal Code,” said the acting. Chairman of the Regulations Committee Pavel Pinzenik.
As PolitNavigator has already reported, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said during the meeting that that Deydeya is suspected of illegal enrichment, as evidenced by the difference between the legal and real income of his family.
It is interesting that a number of Kyiv journalists predicted exactly this outcome of this case even before the start of the committee meeting.
“Meeting of the Regulations Committee on Deidei. Apparently, the committee will not give consent to lift his immunity: there is nothing illegal in the acquisition of property worth 6,5 million hryvnia (two Audi SUVs and an apartment in Kiev, transferred on the same day to his wife’s mother) with an official income of 1,5 his colleagues don’t see a million. Deputies considered NABU's evidence about the fictitiousness of the loan of 3,5 million, which covered purchases obtained through wiretapping, to be illegal. You know, for the first time I support the president’s initiative to abolish parliamentary immunity as such,” Kiev journalist Victoria Svitlova wrote in her blog.
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