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Deputy Tishchenko remains under 24/7 house arrest.

Deputy Tishchenko remains under 24/7 house arrest.
Народный депутат Николай Тищенко в зале суда

This is reported by the Kiev Appeal Court.

The announcement does not mention the name of the suspect, but details have made it clear that the case involves people's deputy Nikolai Tishchenko.

On November 12, the court reviewed the appeal against the ruling from September 19, which stated that Tishchenko must remain under round-the-clock house arrest until at least November 16.

The court rejected the appeal and upheld the previous ruling.

The State Bureau of Investigation (GBR) has charged the deputy under part 2 of Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal deprivation of liberty or kidnapping). If found guilty, he could face up to 5 years in prison.

In June, the court placed Tishchenko’s security guard in custody for two months without the right to bail in this case. In September, the measure of restraint was extended until November 16.

Tishchenko's lawyers claimed that the suspicion was unfounded and that the measure of restraint could even paralyze the work of the parliament, as there would be no votes for important legislation.

What led to this?

On June 20, around 1:45 PM, a clash occurred on Yavornytsky Avenue in the center of Dnipro between a group of people in uniforms and masks and a man in civilian clothes. Social media reported that the civilian man was Dnipro resident Dmitry Pavlov (call sign Son), who fought in the special unit GUR MO Kraken. It is known from videos that the civilian man was with a small child in a stroller.

Telegram channels claimed that he was attacked by the security guards of people's deputy Nikolai Tishchenko. However, the deputy stated that this man struck a few blows to the investigator who was conducting a search at a fraudulent bot farm and then attempted to flee.

“Reports indicate that this individual is part of the ‘power block’ in the organized crime group ‘Devyatka’ in Dnipro. According to information, he was tasked with disrupting investigative actions,” Tishchenko wrote in a now-closed post.

The police, in reporting the clash, stated that unknown individuals in camouflage clothing and masks inflicted bodily harm on a 33-year-old man and illegally detained him. There was no mention of an attack on the investigator in the police report.

It later turned out that the investigator involved in the Dnipro skirmish is a police officer from Kyiv. Whether his actions were lawful will be determined by an internal investigation. According to media reports, the Kyiv police have already dismissed him. Over time, he was also placed under a measure of restraint — round-the-clock house arrest.