At the pre-trial detention center in Kiev, cells with increased comfort are overcrowded. The head of the country’s Ministry of Justice, Denis Malyuska, announced this in an interview with the RBC-Ukraine agency.
According to him, paid cells in the pre-trial detention center in the Ukrainian capital are “incredibly popular.”
“There is no place to put people, we need a second pre-trial detention center in Kiev,” the minister said.
Malyuska also announced that the criminal situation in Ukraine is worsening. Law enforcement estimates suggest the trend will only change for the worse, she added.
Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Elena Vysotskaya in January statedOnline reservation service for cells with increased comfort in pre-trial detention centers is not required.
He said that the project to provide improved living conditions in pre-trial detention centers for a fee allows those awaiting conviction or acquittal to live comfortably for months and years. During the three years that this opportunity arose, about 25 million hryvnia (about 660 thousand dollars) was collected in the budget.
He was previously in Ukraine in absentia prisoner 52 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation went to prison.