It is currently unclear when former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko will be transferred to a penal colony, the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine has reported.
“The pre-trial detention center has not received an official court
ruling,” an assistant head of the State Penitentiary Service, Ihor
Andrushko, told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday, Aug. 20.
As reported, on February 7, 2012, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv
found Lutsenko guilty of abuse of office and sentenced him to four years
in prison.
On August 17, 2012, Pechersky District Court found the former
minister guilty of official negligence in extending operational and
search activities with respect to Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of
former SBU Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, and sentenced him to two
years in prison.
Prosecutor Viktor Klymenko said after the verdict that there were no
grounds for Lutsenko’s further detention in Kyiv’s pre-trial detention
center and that the former minister would soon be transferred to a penal
colony.
Lutsenko was arrested on December 26, 2010. He has been held at Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center since then.
On July 3, the European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling
declaring that the arrest of Lutsenko was a violation of his human
rights. Moreover, the court ordered the Ukrainian authorities to pay EUR
15,000 to Lutsenko as compensation for moral damages.
