On April 28, Kyiv district court of Kharkiv changed the preventive measures for the "Anti-Maidan" activist Ihnat Kromskoy, famous under the alias "Topaz," to detainment.
Ihnat Kromskoy was taken in on March 28 under the criminal proceeding opened due to the fact of the attack on Kharkiv regional state administration on March 1. He’s suspected in organization of mass riots (Part 1, Article 294 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
On March 29, Lenin district court of Kharkiv sentenced him to around-the-clock house arrest. The prosecutor’s office submitted the appeal demanding to sentence Kromskoy to detention in custody. However, the Court of Appeals kept him under house arrest and made Kromskoy wear an electronic ankle tag and hand in his international passport.
On April 7, Kromskoy escaped the house arrest.
On April 25, employees of the Security Service of Ukraine detained Kromskoy while he was meeting with journalists from the Russian TV channel LifeNews.
“Judge Svitlana Kolesnyk changed the preventive measure to detainment without bail for 33 days, until May 28. We’ll submit an appeal within five days,” Kromskoy’s lawyer Oleksandr Shadrin told.
He said that it wasn’t clear where his defendant would be located – in pre-trial detention center in Kharkiv or Poltava.
As reported, Kharkiv citizen Ihnat Kromskoy was a member of “Anti-Maidan” security in Mariyinsky Park in Kyiv. He became famous under the alias “Topaz” after a video on the Internet that was made in the camp of the “Anti-Maidan.” The video stops, when the person filming it is attacked by the so-called “titushky” (thugs hired by the previous government), and he is calling for help by addressing Kromskoy, who’s escorting him, “Topaz, give a command!”
