PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

PHOTO: SERHIY STAROSTENKO / EAST NEWS UKRAINE 12.10.2021 A Ukrainian court refused to send Medvedchuk to a pre-trial detention center in the coal case. A few days ago, the SBU said that the businessman and the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party was helping to disrupt the supply of coal from abroad to Ukraine in order to organize illegal schemes for the supply of coal from Donbass. According to previous charges, Medvedchuk faces a life sentence. the head of the political party of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, On the evening of October 12, the Kyiv Pechersk Court decided to elect Viktor Medvedchuk, a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 7, 2021. He is forbidden to leave his apartment in Kyiv around the clock. The judge denied the prosecutor's request. Those demanded a billion hryvnia bail or arrest.

Ukrainian tycoon and one of the leaders of the 'Opposition Platform-For Life' political party Viktor Medvedchuk reacts while speaking at his headquarters after the parliamentary election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, July 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian tycoon and one of the leaders of the 'Opposition Platform-For Life' political party Viktor Medvedchuk reacts while speaking at his headquarters after the parliamentary election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, July 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)