Kyiv Pechersky District Court has finished interrogating witnesses in a criminal case against former Acting Defense Minister of Ukraine Valeriy Ivaschenko and moved on to interrogating the accused - Ivaschenko and the former manager of Feodosiya Shipbuilding and Mechanical Plant, Serhiy Mikheyev.
Mikheyev stated that in connection with the amending of the Criminal Code of Ukraine he had confessed his guilt to some of the charges brought against him under Article 365-2, instead of Article 365 as before, and asked the court to give him some time to prepare for his interrogation.
In turn, to the same question by the presiding judge, Serhiy Vovk, Ivaschenko said: "I don’t have to declare myself guilty either under the old code, or under its new version, as I committed no crime against the state."
Ivaschenko and his defence lawyers asked the court to announce a two-week break in the hearing due to the fact that doctors prescribed treatment in the pre-trial detention facility for Ivaschenko. In particular, they prescribed drops four times a day, and injections, and if the hearing is held with short breaks the treatment regime will be broken and be ineffective.
The court announced a five-week break in the hearing until 09.05 on March 1.
When asked by lawyers of Ivaschenko and Mikheyev why the break was so long, Vovk said that it was due to his participation in other hearings.
As reported, judges Serhiy Vovk and Oksana Tsarevych are also participating in a hearing on the criminal case against former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko.
