Former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has written an application to the authorities of the Mena Penal Colony with a requirement to organize his hospitalization and continuous treatment in Chernihiv regional hospital or Kyiv emergency medical service hospital, his wife and defender, Iryna Lutsenko has said.
The press service of the People’s Self-Defense Party reported that on Friday Iryna Lutsenko organized an inspection trip to the penal colony where his husband is serving his sentence. MPs Yuriy Hrymchak, Yuriy Stets, Viktor Ukolov, Volodymyr Aryev, Andriy Pavlovsky and Volodymyr Filenko, ombudsperson Valeria Lutkovska visited the colony. The deputy prosecutor general of Chernihiv region and head of the Penitentiary Service of Chernihiv also arrived.
“The authorities of the Mena Penal Colony presented any confirming documents on receiving medications prescribed by Heath Ministry’s doctors during the latest examination on November 8, 2012 to neither the ombudsperson nor the deputy prosecutor general of Chernihiv region,” Iryna Lutsenko said.
She said that she intends via court to demand from the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine to deny reports on Yuriy Lutsenko by its press service.
He said that Yuriy Lutsenko did not sign an agreement on the undergoing a repeat medical examination at a laboratory on November 30, 2012.
She noted that if the authorities of the Mena Penal Colony do no observe all of the demand of Yuriy Lutsenko and violate his rights, the defenders of the former interior minister next week will submit the second claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court found Lutsenko guilty of a number of counts of abuse of office and sentenced him to four years in prison on February 27, 2012. Lutsenko was charged with interfering in an investigative case concerning Valentyn Davydenko, the driver of former SBU First Deputy Chief Volodymyr Satsiuk, as part of an investigation into the poisoning of then presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko on August 17, 2012 by Pechersky Court. The court sentenced Lutsenko to two years in prison.
On August 31, 2012, the ex-minister was transferred to the Mena Penal Colony in Chernihiv region.
The medical commission examined Lutsenko on November 8 and came to a conclusion that there was no reason for the ex-minister’s hospitalization.
Meanwhile, Iryna Lutsenko stated that during the examination the doctors discovered that the ex-minister has heart disease.
On November 15, Lutsenko refused from an examination with the help of medical equipment at Chernihiv Regional Clinical Hospital.
On November 29, 2012, Yuriy Lutsenko complained that for 20 days he has not been undergoing any of the medical procedures prescribed by his medical commission. The press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine denied the information and on November 30 it was reported that Lutsenko agreed to undergo a repeat medical examination at a laboratory.
