UkrInform: Court returns indictment against Pavlo Hryb back to prosecutors

Published July 23, 2018 at 2:59 pm

Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb is seen in a court room of Russia's Krasnodar District Court on Oct. 18. Hryb was allegedly kidnapped by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in Belarus, and will remain in custody in Krasnodar region until Jan. 4.

Photo by facebook.com/Andrei Sabinin

The panel of judges of the North Caucasus Military District Court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has returned the indictment against Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb to prosecutors for revision.

Presiding judge Sergei Gorelov drew attention to the fact that the indictment refers to the old version of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of Russia. The article provides for eight years in prison, but is no longer in force. The prosecutor said that was a mistake and he meant the new version of the article, according to which the defendant faces up to 10 years in prison, Hromadske reports.