Georgy Logvinsky
Unfortunately, nothing is changing in our country. Yanukovych and his entourage have been ousted, a "new" police force has been established, and nothing has changed. The prosecutor's office, the courts, and the law enforcement system remain the "pocket" tools of a privileged few. And God forbid you find yourself in the same office as a people's deputy, much less enter into conflict with him, the "great and powerful," for the laws of our country protect not you, who brought this deputy to power, but him—the arbiter of millions of destinies. At the wave of a people's representative's finger, the police, the prosecutor's office, and the courts adopt a certain stance and unquestioningly carry out his every order, openly disregarding their citizens and the law. Proof of this is the incident that occurred on the night of July 22-23 in the Odessa nightclub "Park Residence", where at that very time the People's Deputy from the "People's Front" Georgy Vladimirovich Logvinsky was conducting his "stormy parliamentary activities".
At the same time, Odesa resident Oleksandr Semenyuta was relaxing at a nightclub with friends who had come to the city known for its hospitality from the equally hospitable Dnipro. Logvinskyi was spending time with a young woman and his brother. Both groups were "tipsy," as Oleksandr's friends admit. At some point, a conflict arose between the two groups. Nightclub security escorted Oleksandr, Logvinskyi, and his brother outside, where the latter began waving their arms and threatening all sorts of problems. As a result, the MP and his brother received a fair amount of flak from Oleksandr for their violence. Sorry, but he doesn't have a parliamentary seat written all over his head. And what does it matter anyway? It's a purely male-dominated matter; they sorted things out and parted ways. But no, Logvinskyi started threatening Oleksandr and promised to put him in jail.
The police arrived. Logvinsky, of course, was released. Who would put him in jail? He's a monument! But Alexander was detained. And then the most interesting part began. The highest-ranking officials from the prosecutor's office and police arrived to investigate this "high-profile" incident, despite it having occurred on a Saturday. When offered a peaceful resolution—which happens to everyone—the officials refused, citing the fact that they had been roused by senior management in Kyiv on Logvinsky's orders.
The entire apparatus of the "new" Odessa police and the "reformed" prosecutor's office worked nonstop for 24 hours to fulfill Logvinsky's promise to jail Oleksandr Semenyuta. As a result, the young man, who simply defended himself as a man, was charged with three criminal offenses, and they're planning to add another one: "Obstructing the Activities of a Member of Parliament." What activities Member of Parliament Logvinsky carried out in a nightclub, while intoxicated and in the company of a young woman he called his assistant, is anyone's guess. But we won't delve into the intimate life of the "untouchable"; that's for his wife, Anna Yudkovskaya, who, incidentally, is a judge representing Ukraine on the European Court of Human Rights.
Anna Yudkovskaya
After numerous interrogations, Alexander went to the 11th City Clinical Hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion. After the concussion certificate was obtained by the police, the hospital received a call from Kyiv, urgently demanding that the head physician rescind the diagnosis. Under pressure from Kyiv, the head physician was forced to convene a consultation, which rescinded the previous diagnosis. The rescinding of the diagnosis was carried out with the aim of placing Alexander in pretrial detention.
Seeing all this chaos perpetrated by the "servants of the people," Alexander sought qualified medical care at the Into-Sana clinic, where—wait for it—a SWAT team arrived to pick him up. And this after a simple conflict at a nightclub! The crime rate in the city is worse than in the wild 90s, and the SWAT team is carrying out the whims of MP Logvinsky. Déjà vu—the Yanukovych era.
On July 25, a court hearing took place, during which Oleksandr Semenyuta's lawyers, reasonably and solely relying on the letter of the law, tore apart all the prosecutor's charges and evidence. But the judge, apparently receiving another order from Kyiv, calmly and obediently sent Oleksandr to pretrial detention.
What kind of justice, what kind of fairness, and what kind of equality before the law can we talk about if all government officials, from the average police officer to the judge, depend on a single phone call from Kyiv, which can send absolutely anyone with the full right to defend their honor and dignity to pretrial detention.
If Oleksandr was sent to pretrial detention simply for clashing with a "great and powerful" Verkhovna Rada deputy, then what kind of punishment awaits Heorhiy Logvinsky for his participation in the hostile takeover of the Cherkasy Distillery? Or can he get away with anything? I'd like to remind Logvinsky that immunity isn't eternal, unlike the law.
We ask that this publication be considered an open appeal to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, demanding that he stop the aforementioned lawlessness. We also ask the media to disseminate this publication. Only by working together can we stop the disregard shown by those we ourselves elected, who should serve the people and the law, not their own pockets and ambitions.
P.S. In our next publication, we will be sure to inform the public of the ranks, positions, first names, and last names of those involved in the fabrication of the criminal case against Alexander Semenyuta.
Based on: Chief Correspondent
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