Kyiv’s Podilsky District Court did not satisfy the lawsuit by the Verkhovna Rada deputy of VIII convocation Serhiy Pashynsky against the Novoye Vremya ezine and journalist of this publication Ivan Verstiuk.
“Today, the Podilsky district court has put an end to the case of ex-deputy Serhiy Pashynsky against Novoye Vremya and against me. The court acknowledged that the truth is on our side,” Verstiuk wrote on his Facebook page on Jan. 21.
According to him, Pashynsky demanded a refutation of information about his involvement in corruption deals in the defense sector. “He sent his photo and four-page article to the editorial office about the “Kremlin hybrid war” against him. Pashynsky demanded publishing his photo on the cover of the magazine, and his article inside the issue,” the journalist wrote.
Verstiuk thanked the lawyers “for effective legal support and attention to detail.”
The material published on the Novoye Vremya website on April 19, 2018 described a scheme for the delivery of disassembled Soviet BMP-1 manufactured in the 1980s and purchased at Wtorplast to the Zhytomyr armored plant.
After publication, the editors received demands for refutation from legal entities involved in the article, while Pashynsky, then the acting MP, said that the article was “an attempt to discredit the Ukrainian army and cooperation with our allies.”
