The Pechersky Court of the city of Kyiv granted the request of the prosecutorʼs office to extend the term of detention of the MP Nestor Shufrych. He will spend two more months in the pretrial detention center — until December 15.
This is reported by "GRUNT".
The MPʼs lawyers said they plan to file an appeal.
Shufrychʼs case
On September 15, Nestor Shufrych was suspected of treason. According to the investigation, he "closely cooperated" and carried out the tasks of the former secretary of the NSDC Volodymyr Syvkovych, an FSB agent who coordinated the Russian agency in Ukraine. One of Shufrychʼs main tasks, according to the investigation, was subversive activity in the information sphere — he constantly spread the Kremlinʼs narratives that the Ukrainian state is an "artificial entity", that Ukraine and Russia have "one history" and that Ukrainians and Russians are " one nation". Thus, the SBU claims, Shufrych tried to develop pro-Russian sentiment in Ukrainian society.
- On September 15 , the court sent Shufrych to custody for 60 days, until November 13, without the right to post bail. At his home in the village of Kozyn in the Kyiv region, a number of medals, a collection of coats and a dozen Soviet awards were found. Babelʼs sources in SBU also reported that during searches they found a document with the scheme of autonomy for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It provides for the renaming of these regions to "regions", broad autonomy, holding elections, and the formation of separate "governments" and "parliament". Under the document, dated July 2014, are the signatures of Viktor Medvedchuk and Shufrych.
- On September 20, the Rada removed Nestor Shufrych from the post of chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Speech.