"Servant of People" Shevchenko sent to custody without bail until January 11
On November 15, the court imposed a pre-trial restraint on People's Deputy Yevhen Shevchenko, who is suspected of treason. He was sent to custody without the right to be released on bail.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office.
"At the request of the prosecutors of the Prosecutor General's Office, a preventive measure of detention for 60 days without the right to be released on bail was imposed on the People's Deputy of Ukraine suspected of high treason," the statement said.
The case of the "servant of the people" Yevhen Shevchenko
As Censor.NET previously reported, on 20 April 2021, People's Deputy from the Servant of the People party Yevhen Shevchenko met in Minsk with Alexander Lukashenko, who seized power in Belarus, and said that the Belarusian dictator is not only respected but loved in Ukraine.
This visit was condemned in Ukraine, and on May 24 2021, Shevchenko was expelled from the Servant of the People faction.
Later, the head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said that Shevchenko had held secret talks with self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the request of the Ukrainian special services. According to Budanov, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine uses Shevchenko's connections.
On November 8, 2024, Shevchenko called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in a dialogue with Russia and said that he had allegedly written a letter to Donald Trump "to help stop further authoritarianism, dictatorship, and lawlessness."
On November 14, the SSU served the People's Deputy with a notice of suspicion of high treason.
