Company lawyer Sergey Yemelianov has
spent nearly half a year in the pretrial detention center. The lawyer who completed documents for newborns is released from the
pretrial detention center.
Irina Zozulia. May 13, 2013
An unexpected turn of events in a much publicized case
of allegedly illegal trafficking of babies born by Ukrainian women for
foreigners. The lawyer of the Surrogacy Center Sergey Emelyanov is released
from the pretrial detention center where he has spent the last half a year. Let
us recall, the Kharkov firm supporting the foreigners for eight years in such a
sensitive issue as providing a surrogate mother, birth of a baby and its
trafficking abroad has come into a view of security officials last year.
The Head of the Centre Victoria Chuprinova and the
lawyer Yemelianov were accused of entering into a birth certificate a name of a
woman who carried a child but not the one of a genetic mother. Public prosecution office has consideration
it violated the procedure of document execution. Eleven episodes of trafficking
newborns abroad were reviewed in court, some of them were adjudged in course of
several court sessions.
Ms. Chuprinova who founded a Surrogacy Center “La
Vita Felice” stands assured of establishing
her case in court.
Victoria Chuprinova, who, by the way, is still on
travel restrictions, is guided by new facts.
“I rely upon the objectivity of justice and will
continue to prove my innocence, because I committed nothing illegal,- says the
ex-director of the Surrogacy Center, who
is also charged with tax evasion in the amount of 2.5 million UAH”
After auditing, however, the experts from the
institute n.a. Bokarius failed to make clear conclusion which sums have not
been paid by the company to the state and if there were any underpayment at
all. Forensic experts made reference to the fact that the crime investigator
has not provided the documents of the company.
Chuprinova
is sure
of the fact that
the attack on her project is nothing but a forcible
takeover,
in which her
former deputy Ludmila Pchelnikova played a key role.
“I was arrested only on the basis of false testimony
of Lyudmila Pchelnikova, and when she began to be questioned in court, she had
completely denied her words. Luda is a cook by profession, once came to us to be
a surrogate mother. Later, she became a
manager, and, with time passing, my assistant. I trusted her finally been paid
for it - lamenting Victoria.”
Company’s name was changed on La
Vita Nova LLC and continues functioning.
The ex-deputy took the reins in her hands, and Sergei Krasnikov, the former
officer of security agency has become the founder of the Center.
On the topic
New Company’s owner: there will
be new accusations
- Company
is not accused, but people. And as long as there is no verdict, we are not in
position to say they are founded guilty, - Sergei Krasnikov commented the
situation to “Komsomolka”.
By
the way, as it became known to "КP", in Kiev Regional Department of Internal Affairs the criminal case against the company officer of La Vita Nova LLC Lyudmila Pchelnikova is opened.
She is charged with violation of two articles of the Criminal CODE of
Ukraine.
