The court refused to grant the petition for disqualification of judge Victor Mogilevskogo and the Prosecutor of the Crimea Natalia Polonskaya, which supports the prosecution during the case about the attack on the life of employees of " Berkut ".
"The arguments of the defender are bogus and can not be confirmed," said the judge.
the message about the removal of the judge and the Prosecutor of the Crimea was filed by the lawyer of the defendant in the case of Alexander Kostenko Dmitry Sotnikov. He believes that the judge has "personal political interest" in this process, because "the media many times had published negative data about Kostenko" before the meetings. Poklonskaya, in the opinion of counsel, must also be dismissed as " not responding to allegations of use of torture by the defendant in the process of investigation ". Thus he Kostenko in the courtroom said that the petition of the lawyer to recuse the Prosecutor does not endorse, RIA " Novosti ". Centurions also read, like, quotes Poklonskaya with the negative comments about the accused from social networks." No of pages in the social networks I have not conducted. All pages are not mine, " replied the Prosecutor of the Crimea. On the first day of the week in the Kiev district court of Simferopol has opened the trial of the case Kostenko, who is accused of the attack on Crimean fighters of special forces "Berkut" guarding in February of last year the public order. on March 24 it was announced that Poklonskaya own persona will be to support the prosecution in court. Remember, the Crimean Prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the criminal case concerning Alexander Kostenko 1986.. Kostenko was placed in jail by a court decision in the Crimea on 8 February of the current year. According to the Ukrainian correspondents, in December-February 2014 Kostenko for example took an active part in law enforcement operations against the authorized authorities. The very popular and He and his comrade by the name Krasnov received after the publication of videos showing torture of workers of "Berkut" in the building of Kyiv city administration. At the end of February 2014 in Ukraine there was a coup, fresh authorities placed the responsibility for All the incidents that occurred in the course of the euromaidan, the past leadership of the country. Were criminal cases concerning a number of bureaucrats, and special police force "Berkut" was dissolved.

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