Varlamau: I live in jail now
The fashion designer has to use a crutch in court and is asking for a medical check-up (photo).
The ex-director of "Fashion Mill" entered the assembly hall of the Law Courts with a crutch. He looked ill and haggard. Judge Nadzeya Navitskaya allowed him to sit down if he felt bad.
The designer's lawyer, Pavel Pivavarchyk, asked to release him from custody due to illness.
Pavel Pivavarchyk: “He has been in custody for about two years. His health condition has deteriorated. He was put in the second disability group in 2011."
The judge declined the motion. Varlamau also asked the judge to allow him to go through a medical check-up - magnetic resonance imaging. The judge replied that she had not received any documents connected with it.
There were no other motions and public prosecutor Pavel Papkou started pronouncing the charges.
He claimed that Varlamau had used the building of the BSU Lyceum meant for the Fashion Centre for his own enterprise "Sahsa Varlamau's Fashion Agency".
He also accused the designer of committing crimes to create his image in the sphere of fashion and design.
Pavel Papkou: “Varlamau committed crimes for his own good - to win recognition in the field of design and fashion."
The designer is accused of not paying the rent of 88.5 million roubles to the BSU Lyceum - a huge sum.
Pavel Papkou had been pronouncing charges for over one hour and a half. Sasha Varlamau was trying to listen to him standing. But he kept sitting down or was holding by the bars.
The aggrieved who occupied more than half of the courtroom were also listening to the public prosecutor. Most of them looked like teenagers. Some of them did not consider themselves aggrieved.
“I am considered to be an aggrieved person but I do not think that I was offended. I cooperated with him on mutually beneficial terms and I do not think that my rights were violated," designer Yavazhyna Miklashevich told Euroradio during the lunch break.
Sasha Varlamau is accused of having violated five articles of the Criminal Code. Over 800 witnesses have been interrogated so far, the Investigation Committee reports. Varlamau has been jailed since May 20, 2011.
Photo by - Euroradio
