14 August 2014, 11:08
The bill aims to ensure the principle of inevitable punishment in cases when the suspect (the accused) is outside Ukraine, is hiding from the investigation and the court, and is evading criminal liability.
The bill suggests supplementing chapter 2 of article 59 and sanctions of articles 109-114, 258-258-4 and 260-261 of the Criminal Code; introducing a special pre-trial investigation of the abovementioned offences by supplementing the Criminal Procedure Code with chapter 24-1, as well as introducing respective amendments to several articles of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The bill was registered under No. 4448a.