The hearing on the validity of the extradition request of the wealthy businessman and former Ukrainian deputy Kostiantin Jevago was again postponed Thursday to March 16, we learned from his lawyers.
This dismissal was expected.
The public prosecutor's office had told AFP that it was requesting the dismissal pending receipt of documents from the Ukrainian courts.
This is the third referral of the hearing to the investigative chamber of the Chambéry Court of Appeal.
A “political” victim
Subject of an extradition request from his country, the former deputy from 1998 to 2019, sometimes as an independent, sometimes in the camp of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, was arrested on December 28 in Courchevel.
Accused of having embezzled $ 113 million from his bank Finance and Credit Bank, which went bankrupt in 2015, he portrayed himself on January 5 as a “
political
” victim.
“
In Ukraine, they say I am an oligarch.
It's not true, I have always fought against them
”, “
injustice
” and “
corruption
”.
Today, I pay for this"
and
"I don't deserve this", he had also launched.
