Former MP Granovsky becomes first to receive gift certificate for VIP pretrial detention cell

Blogger Vasily Krutchak bought a gift certificate for a VIP pretrial detention cell for former Petro Poroshenko Bloc MP Oleksandr Granovsky.

Journalist Vasily Krutchak of the Iceland TV channel bought a gift certificate for a VIP pretrial detention cell for former MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Oleksandr Granovsky. The journalist reported this on his Twitter account. According to the terms of the gift certificate, the MP will be able to use the VIP cell for 30 days. The certificate cost 12,000 hryvnias. 

Vasily Krutchak
gonzo journalist

Sasha Granovsky, I gift this to you. You are the first to receive a “gift certificate” for use of a pretrial detention cell for 30 days. Now you can confidently return to Ukraine and live comfortably here. Of course, not as comfortably as it was under Petro Oleksiyovych, but not bad either.

Recall that earlier Justice Minister Denys Maliuska presented a new service from his agency — gift certificates for using paid cells in Ukrainian pretrial detention centers. With such a certificate, a prisoner will be able to get into a cell with improved conditions, the official said on Facebook.

Oleksandr Granovsky is a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. During President Poroshenko's term, the politician was called the “overseer of courts and prosecutors.” After losing the parliamentary election in the 169th constituency in Kharkiv, a week before losing parliamentary immunity, he left Ukraine. The Joker Telegram channel published a photo of Oleksandr Granovsky's Israeli passport.

Earlier, the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, in an interview with Serhiy Ivanov, did not rule out serving Granovsky with a suspicion in the case of embezzlement of 93 million hryvnias from the Odesa Port Plant. 

On March 6, it became known that NABU announced a suspicion in absentia in the same criminal proceedings against the ex-MP's assistant Olga Tkachenko.

In December 2019, the SBI conducted searches at the homes of Granovsky and former CEC head Tetiana Slipachuk in connection with an investigation into unlawful actions by the CEC and the ex-MP aimed at removing Oleksandr Kunytskyi's candidacy from the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Earlier, activists of the Verdict organization delivered a pig to the Lukyanivska pretrial detention center. The activists staged a performance, bringing the animal to the walls of the detention center and offered administration representatives that it begin serving the sentence instead of the former MP while he is outside Ukraine.