Kharkiv, September 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Former Luhansk City Council deputy Roman Landyk, who is accused of beating up model Mariya Korshunova, has been sent from prison in Kharkiv to Luhansk.
"He stayed in Kharkiv for two days, in a usual prison cell, along with three more people. In the evening, he was sent to Luhansk, along with other detainees," the first deputy head of the State Penitentiary Service’s office in Kharkiv region, Oleksandr Krikushenko, told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter
However, he denied reports in local Internet media that Landyk had been brought to prison in Kharkiv in a highly excited state and that security guards had to closely follow him, fearing that the deputy will try to commit suicide.
On July 7, the prosecutor’s office of Luhansk region opened a criminal case against Landyk on charges of disorderly conduct (Part 3 of Article 296) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Landyk beat up a young woman in a restaurant on July 4. This incident was recorded on the video and the clip was posted on the Internet. The injured woman, aged 20, was hospitalized with concussion and bruises.
Landyk was expelled from the Regions Party and from the party’s faction in Luhansk City Council.
He was put on the wanted list and detained near Krasnodar. On July 20, Krasnodar Court of Russia decided to extradite Landyk to Ukraine.
Landyk is the son of Volodymyr Landyk, a member of the Regions Party’s faction at Ukraine’s parliament.
