Ukrainian parliamentarian Nadiya Savchenko, who is under arrest, has not yet undergone a psychophysiological evaluation using a polygraph in the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Evaluations.
“The evaluation was not conducted,” Nadiya Savchenko’s sister Vera told Interfax-Ukraine on April 5.
Savchenko was not given a polygraph test because procedural issues had not been settled; the investigator had not provided the defense lawyers with the case materials, she said.
Vera Savchenko said the situation will be clarified in the next few days. “The defense lawyers are asking the investigators to provide the case [materials], they have three days to think,” she said.
The television channel 112.Ukraine cited a defense lawyer for Nadiya Savchenko as saying that she was not questioned on April 5, as the defense lawyers had not received the case materials and could not prepare for the questioning. A defense lawyer said the questioning will take place on a different day.
On March 22, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada granted the prosecutor general’s recommendation and gave its consent to prosecute, detain, and arrest Savchenko. That same day, law enforcement officials notified Savchenko that she was being treated as a suspect at the parliament, after which they escorted her to the Ukrainian Security Service department for Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
The recommendation on depriving Savchenko of immunity from prosecution was made as part of criminal proceedings opened on counts of preparations for violently changing or dismantling the constitutional system or the seizure of power by a group of individuals acting in concert, preparations for the assassination of a statesperson or a public figure by a group of individuals acting in concert, preparations for a terrorist attack by a group of people acting in concert, the establishment of a terrorist group, and the illegal handling of weapons, ammunition, or explosives by a group of people acting in concert.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ruled on March 23 to place Savchenko under arrest pending trial for 59 days, until May 20.
