A court in Kiev extended the bail for the former head of fraction of Party of regions
Kyiv court extended until may 1, the measure of restraint in the form of bail to the former Chairman of the faction of the former ruling in Ukraine the Party of regions Oleksandr Yefremov, said on the last working day of the week in the evening, Ukrainian
according to TV channel, the court left a Deposit and extended the measure of restraint until may.
the story is about the measure of restraint in one of the criminal cases Against Ephraim, which comes to a vote in Parliament on the " dictatorial laws ".
in February the court in the present case the court chose the measure of restraint in the form of detention for two months with the possibility of adding collateral 3, 65 million hryvnias, he was released after entering of pledge.
Against Ephraim brought two cases. The first charges him with abuse of office and forgery (concerns the adoption of the "dictatorial laws" ). Another case involves inciting ethnic conflict.
the Prosecutor General's office also is investigating the case under the criminal code on the fact of organizing and conducting on 16 January last year a vote in Parliament for the bills, diminishing the possibility of conducting peaceful protests.
Adopted by the Parliament in January 2014, in the midst of protests on the main square of Kiev-Maidan Nezalezhnosti, on the initiative at that time, the ruling Party of regions laws were significantly tightened the rules of holding mass events, introduced criminal liability for libel, allowed the blocking of Internet resources without punishment the court.
Then the opposing political force called these laws " draconian ". Their adoption has led to the aggravation of confrontation between the Maidan and the authorities. At the end of January, the laws were abolished.
in Ukraine, 22 February 2014, there was a coup. The Verkhovna Rada ousted Viktor Yanukovych from power, changed the Constitution and called early presidential elections, which resulted in the new became President Petro Poroshenko. Fresh authorities began to sue the bureaucrats of the government of the Yanukovych criminal cases.