Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has refused to change the measure of restraint for former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who is currently in custody.
Presiding Judge Serhiy Vovk announced the decision on Thursday, motivating it by new circumstances in the case, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reports.
Lutsenko has again asked Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court to take a decision on changing the measure of restraint against him.
At a court session on Thursday, he called on the court to summon all of the injured parties in his case simultaneously and again asked the court to release him from custody.
Lutsenko and his driver Leonid Prystupliuk were charged on Dec. 13, 2010 with the large-scale misappropriation of state owned assets, abuse of power and document forgery.
The former minister was arrested and taken into custody on Dec. 26. He is currently being held in a jail in Kyiv.
