Chervinskyi was granted bail of UAH 9 million - lawyer Hloba
On 15 July, the court granted Colonel Roman Chervinskyi bail in the amount of UAH 9 million.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the Facebook page of lawyer Kostantyn Hloba.
He noted that the trial lasted 7 hours, during which, according to the lawyer, "they discussed how the court of first instance had reflected the lawyers' speech on half an A4 page of its decision within three days".
Hloba also reminded that the representative of the four victims in the case of Colonel Roman Chervinskyi had announced the termination of the contract with them.
"The prosecutor is getting more and more nervous and justifies his failures with fictitious 'pressure from the lawyers'. It is increasingly difficult for the prosecutor to hide and deny the key role of the SSU in this operation. One of the victims' representatives today questioned the subject of the investigation, stating: "The SSU is investigating a case in which they are a defendant..." It is becoming increasingly difficult for judges to justify their rejection of Chervinskyi's defence arguments, and the debate is reflexively reduced to a primitive silent reaction. 27 People`s Deputies and 51 individuals have expressed a desire to take Chervinskyi on bail," he said about the progress of the case.
He added that the result was a bail of UAH 9 million.
Roman Chervinskyi's case
The media reported that the Ukrainian military had been recruiting a Russian pilot for several months to hijack the plane. According to media reports, Roman Chervinskyi was among them. Subsequently, as the SSU noted, the "operation" was carried out over the objections of the SSU and without the consent of the relevant state authorities. As a result, the enemy received information about the deployment of personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force and Ukrainian aircraft at the Kanatove airfield. This allowed the Russian Armed Forces to shell the airfield.
Later, Chervinskyi gave an exclusive interview for Censor.NET in which he spoke about the operation at Kanatove airfield.
In April 2023, the SSU served Chervinskyi with a notice of suspicion in the case of the shelling of the Kanatove airfield in Kirovohrad region by the occupiers. He was detained in the Ternopil region.
Major General Viktor Hanushchak, who was in charge of the military unit to which Colonel Chervinskyi was assigned as deputy commander, told Censor.NET that the operation at Kanatove airfield had been agreed with the top leadership of the Armed Forces. However, the court refused to hear Hanushchak and did not accept evidence in favour of Chervinskyi.
Roman Chervinskyi was one of the intelligence officers who organised an operation in 2020 to detain Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC, luring them to Belarus. There, the mercenaries were supposed to board a plane that would later be crash-landed in Ukraine by the Ukrainian special services. However, the operation failed. On 24 June 2021, President Zelensky confirmed the preparation of a special operation against the Wagnerites. Zelenskyy also said that the special operation against the Wagnerites was the idea of other countries and that Ukraine was involved in this issue as much as possible.
In December 2021, DIU intelligence officers Chervinskyi and Semeniuk spoke about the betrayal of the operation. According to Chervinskyi, several people from the President's Office could have leaked information about the operation to detain the Wagnerites. He also said that the Presidential Office threatened the ex-intelligence officers with criminal proceedings.
On 28 December 2023, Colonel Roman Chervinskyi was served a notice of suspicion of attempting to seize USD 100,000 by impersonating an official of the State Fiscal Service.
