The lawyer of the detained former deputy Nikolai Martynenko Igor Tcherezov demanded the challenge of Judge Alexander Bobrovnik.
Tcherezov recalled that Bobrovnik also considered the measure of restraint for the temporarily suspended head of the GFS, Roman Nasirov, who also demanded the removal of this judge.
Nasirov then said that the media had information about the opening of criminal proceedings against the judge Bobrovnik on suspicion of bribery.
The lawyer referred to recent publications in the media that Bobrovnikov is drunk in the workplace. Tcherezov said that he appealed to law enforcement agencies with a statement about bringing Judge Bobrovnik to criminal liability. He also said that he asks the Supreme Council of Justice to deprive him of the title of judge.
Lawyer Petr Boyko said that NABU conducts proceedings against Judge Bobrovnik, and therefore, as a lawyer, he can not count on an objective examination of the application of the SAP by this judge.
Martynenko said that a few weeks ago he addressed the president and the ambassadors of the G7 countries with information about the political persecution by the NABU.
"At the same time, I said that, on a preliminary distribution, the petition would reach Judge Bobrovnik, so I support the petition of my lawyers," he said..
Judge Bobrovnik announced a break to determine the investigating judge who will consider the petition for challenge.
Solomensky District Court of Kyiv began to consider petitions of prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office on the choice of a preventive measure for ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nikolay Martynenko, who is suspected of embezzling more than 17 million dollars of public funds.
Initially, the court session was scheduled for 15:00, but later it was postponed to 16:30.
Recall, SAP will require for Martynenko arrest for 60 days with the possibility of making a deposit of 300 million hryvnia. According to SAP head Nazar Kholodnitsky, this sum is due to the fact that the role of each participant in the scheme.
In the evening of April 20, detainees of the National Security Service detained former People's Deputy Nikolai Martynenko. The detention was carried out as part of the investigation of the case on the procurement of the VostGOK uranium concentrate of uranium through the Austrian gasket. According to the investigation, former member of the parliamentary faction of the "Popular Front" Nikolai Martynenko is an accomplice in embezzling more than $ 17 million of the state enterprise "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant".