Mikhail Dobkin
The criminal case against former head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Mikhail Dobkin, has been closed, his lawyer, Yulia Pletneva, announced.
"The case was closed by the investigator's order on August 20 due to the lack of evidence of a crime in Mikhail Markovich's actions," Yulia Pletneva told an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent on Saturday.
"We certainly believed in justice, but the fact that it would happen so quickly... On the other hand, from a legal perspective, the six-month pre-trial investigation period stipulated by the Criminal Procedure Code was expiring. No evidence of Mikhail Markovich's guilt was found, and the case was closed due to lack of evidence," added Yulia Pletneva.
As reported, M. Dobkin was detained in Kyiv on March 10. Investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office presented him with a notice of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine).
On March 12, Kyiv's Pechersky District Court placed M. Dobkin under house arrest. Investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office served him with a notice of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine).
On March 25, M. Dobkin submitted documents to the Central Electoral Commission to register as a presidential candidate. He therefore requested that his house arrest be lifted so that he could conduct a full-fledged election campaign.
On April 3, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv changed the measure of restraint from house arrest to personal recognizance.
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