The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will deliver a judgment in the Lutsenko v. Ukraine case at a public hearing in Strasbourg on July 3 at 1100, Radio Liberty reported on Friday, citing the court's press service.
The ECHR recalled that it received an application from former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko on January 21, 2011.
The court also said that in April 2011, it asked the Ukrainian government “to reply to a number of questions,” including whether Lutsenko had been detained for a purpose other than those envisaged in Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the right to liberty and security).
“The case concerns the complaint by a well-known opposition politician that his arrest and the decision on his detention were arbitrary and unlawful, and that he was not informed about the reasons for his arrest,” reads the press release.
The report notes that the previous hearing was held in Strasbourg on April 17, 2012.
On February 27, 2012, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv found Lutsenko guilty of committing official crimes and sentenced him to four years in prison, with confiscation of his property. Kyiv Court of Appeals on May 16 upheld this verdict.
The essence of the charges lies in the fact that Lutsenko, while serving as interior minister, allegedly facilitated the accrual of an illegal pension to his driver, Leonid Prystupliuk, the allocation of housing to him, as well as his inclusion in the operational services department.
Lutsenko is also charged with the extension of an investigative case concerning the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko.
