Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, which is hear the criminal case against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, has declined motions to call and interrogate another 12 witnesses, and refused to ask for the departmental instructions of the Interior Ministry on holding operational-investigative activities.
As a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine reported, at the sitting of the court on Tuesday on the case involving Lutsenko on the poisoning of then candidate for the presidency, Viktor Yuschenko, Lutsenko and his defense team submitted a corresponding motion.
However the court turned it down, saying that it had been submitted prematurely.
The former interior minister also asked the court to provide him statements from the former head of operational-investigative group that conducted the inquiry into the poisoning of Yuschenko, Halyna Klymovych, and the former supervising prosecutor on the poisoning case, Viacheslav Perch, on their refusal to testify in court, and requested that those that were made by them earlier be made available. The court refused to provide Lutsenko with the statements.
And then former interior minister, appealing to the court said: “I’m declaring that I have had my mouth and eyes sealed up with sticky tape during this trial, since I’m deprived of all rights and protection.”
Lutsenko again said that the court hearings on his case have no relation to justice.
