KYIV. Oct 8 (Interfax) - Ukrainian prosecutors will ask the court to arrest Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian parliamentarian from the Opposition Platform - For Life faction, with an alternative of bail in an amount of one billion hryvni in connection with a new case involving high treason and abetting the financing of terrorist organizations.
"Bearing in mind everything we have heard, all materials that we have, I would ask for an option without alternatives, for arrest," Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) head Ivan Bakanov said at a joint press conference with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, responding to a question as to what restriction the investigators will be seeking.
The prosecutor general said that "one can't do without alternatives in such category of cases." "Therefore, the prosecutors will file a motion for detention or a one billion hryvni bail," Venediktova said.
Bakanov also said the investigators have testimonies by former high-ranking officials from the Ukrainian government and state enterprises.
"Besides the evidence we have spoken about, we have testimonies by witnesses, former high-ranking officials from the Ukrainian government and state enterprises, who fully confirm what you have now heard in the recordings," Bakanov said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
Medvedchuk was earlier presented with suspicion of high treason and abetting the activities of a terrorist organization in connection with involvement in the illegal supply of coal from the territory of Donbas from late 2014 to early 2015.