Petro Poroshenko during a court hearing in KievThe court in Kiev refused to return to the prosecutor's office the request for a measure of restraint for PoroshenkoKYIV, Jan 17 .The Pechersky District Court of Kiev denied the ex-president of Ukraine, leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko, the petition in which he asked the prosecutor's office to return the petition for a preventive measure in the case of treason. Poroshenko arrived in Ukraine from Warsaw on Monday. When passing through control at the Kiev airport, according to the politician, they tried not to let him into the country, they took away his passport under the guise of conducting an inspection. Later, the document was returned to him, and he crossed the state border. The Pechersky District Court has begun considering the prosecutor's office's petition to select a measure of restraint for Poroshenko. During the meeting, the former president asked the court to return to the prosecutor's office a request for a measure of restraint.Poroshenko said that he voluntarily arrived at the court session»To refuse to satisfy the stated petition,» said the presiding judge Aleksey Sokolov. visits to Turkey and Poland are planned. He later promised to return to his homeland on January 17. Poroshenko's defense and supporters have repeatedly stated that the ex-president's foreign visit was planned in advance. Earlier, the press service of the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said that the prosecutor's office would ask the court to arrest Poroshenko in a treason case with the possibility of posting a bail of about $37 million. The party of the ex-president «European Solidarity» considers this political repression. According to a number of Ukrainian media, the Kiev Pechersk Court allowed Poroshenko to be detained in order to take him to court and choose a preventive measure. Poroshenko first became a suspect in treason and aiding terrorism in the case of coal supplies from Donbass. Earlier, the ex-president said that 130 criminal cases were initiated against him, but about 40 of them were closed. Poroshenko has the status of a suspect in the case of the appointment of Serhiy Semochko as Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. He is charged with abuse of power in this case. Poroshenko appears in cases on the appointment of judges, on the movement of paintings across the state border, on the incident with Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait, on the transfer of land. In these cases, the ex-president has the status of a witness.
