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Medvedchuk ordered to pay expenses to the publishing house
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The people’s deputy lost the court regarding the book in which he appears, and later the court also ordered him to pay court costs to the defendants.
The Kiev Court of Appeal ordered MP Viktor Medvedchuk to pay Vivat publishing house almost 300 thousand hryvnias of the costs of the trial to ban the book of journalist Vakhtang Kipiani The Vasyl Stus case. The corresponding ruling dated June 1 was posted in the Unified Register of Court Decisions.
“To collect from PERSON_1 (Medvedchuk – ed.) In favor of the Limited Liability Company Vivat Publishing House a court fee for filing an appeal in the amount of UAH 2,305. 20 kopecks. To collect from PERSON_1 in favor of the Limited Liability Company Vivat Publishing House legal aid and expenses related to the consideration of the case in the court of first instance in the amount of UAH 295,772 17 kopecks. “, – reads the text of the resolution.
That is, in total, Medvedchuk must compensate the Vivat publishing house for 298,077, 37 hryvnias.
This decision of the court of appeal comes into legal force from the date of its adoption and can be appealed to the Supreme Court within 30 days.
As a reminder, on October 19, 2020, the Darnytskyi District Court on the complaint of Medvedchuk banned the distribution of Vakhtang Kipiani’s book The case of Vasily Stus. Then Kipiani said that he would challenge this decision of the court on appeal. At the same time, he added that today all copies of the book are sold out, “the warehouses are empty.”
And in March 2021 the court overturned the ban on the book The Case of Vasily Stus… The court also ruled that Viktor Medvedchuk must compensate Vakhtang Kipiani and the Vivat publishing house for the court fee in the amount of UAH 768.4 each.
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