Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher, suspected of killing activist Kateryna Gandziuk, has been hospitalized because of problems with blood pressure, the Kyiv-based ezine Ukrayinska Pravda has reported, citing press secretary of the Kherson Regional Council Halyna Liashevska.
“He is in the hospital. He has had hypertensive crisis,” the ezine quoted Liashevska as saying.
According to her, Manher is in the intensive care unit in the Kherson Regional Cardiology Dispensary from Friday evening, April 5.
“He feels stable,” added Liashevska.
Earlier, on April 3, the Shevchenkivsky district court of Kyiv decided to put on an electronic bracelet on Chairman of the Kherson regional council Manher and take away his foreign passport, Hromadske reported.
In addition, it is noted that the court denied the motion of the prosecutor to change the measure of restraint from bail to detention.
As earlier reported, the court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention until March 3, 2019 (that is, for 16 days), setting bail at UAH 2.497 million. Manher posted bail the same day and was set free.
Manher is suspected of ordering Handziuk’s murder under Part 3 of Article 27, Paragraph 4, Paragraph 6, Paragraph 11, Paragraph 12, Part 2 of Article 115 of the Ukraine’s Criminal Code. If convicted, he could face a prison term from 10 years to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
An unknown person in Kherson on July 31, 2018 doused Gandziuk with sulfuric acid. Handziuk died of complications on November 4, 2018.
Manher, a former member of the Batkivschyna Party, suspended his membership in the party in January 2019. He denied all wrongdoing.
On March 4, Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district court refused to extend the term of the obligations imposed on Manher.
