Efremov was detained on a bunk for another two months
A new twist in the scandalous “Efremov case.” The Starobelsky District Court of the Luhansk Region extended until May 3 the preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to the ex-head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation, Alexander Efremov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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As the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine reported on Tuesday on its Facebook page, the court made this decision the day before, on March 5.
The next court hearing in criminal proceedings against the ex-people's deputy will take place on March 6, 2018.
As reported, Efremov was detained on suspicion of encroaching on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine on July 30, 2016 at the Kyiv airport.
Efremov is accused of committing criminal offenses under Part 3 of Article 10, Part 1 of Article 111, Part 1 of Article 258-3, Part 3 of Article 27, Article 341, Part 5 of Article 27, Article 341 Criminal Code of Ukraine. They want to blame him for organizing the seizure of the building of the Lugansk Regional State Administration in the spring of 2014 and “complicity in the seizure of the building of the Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Lugansk region, committing deliberate actions with the aim of changing the boundaries of the territory and the state border of Ukraine.”
He is also charged with organizational and other assistance in the creation and activities of the LPR and “high treason.”
Efremov was detained in prison for another two months.