Oleksandr Lysak, a lawyer for suspended State Fiscal Service chief Roman Nasirov, has said he and his colleagues will appeal to the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) about the unlawful arrest of their client.
“We are dissatisfied with the decision of the court. We had hoped they would listen to our arguments and satisfy our appeal. I think we needed the decision at the appeals court level in order to file with the European court,” he told journalists on March 13 after the court hearing.
Lysak said, “We are not thinking about posting bail at this time.”
As earlier reported, Kyiv’s Appeals Court on Monday upheld the ruling of Kyiv’s Solomyansky District Court that remanded Nasirov to pretrial custody for two months and set bail at Hr 100 million.
Detectives from the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) on March 2 presented charges against Nasirov and apprehended him in the Feofania hospital outside Kyiv.
He is suspected of committing a crime pursuant to Part 2 of Article 364 (embezzlement) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.
In the early hours of March 7, the Solomyansky district court remanded Nasirov to pretrial confinement for two months, setting bail at Hr 100 million.
Prosecutors from Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office had asked the court to set bail at Hr 2 billion.
