Nestor Shufrych is accused of maintaining contacts with a fugitive Ukrainian parliamentarian.
Nestor Shufrych served as emergency services minister under disgraced president Viktor Yanukovych.
Nestor Shufrych is accused of maintaining contacts with a fugitive Ukrainian parliamentarian suspected by investigators to have worked for Russian security services and of abetting plans to encourage pro-Moscow separatism in eastern Ukraine.“This is what the authorities need,” Shufrych said in a video issued by Public Suspilne Television as court officials placed him in handcuffs and led him away.
Investigators from the SBU security service said he also had close links with Viktor Medvedchuk, a business magnate and former parliamentarian sent into exile in Russia last year in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war. He held talks with separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and urged Ukraine’s authorities to consider making a deal with Moscow over the creation of pro-Russian territories there.
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