Samenvatting / Summary in English - Kotiy v Ukraine
Kotiy v. Ukraine - 28718/09 Judgment 5.3.2015 [Section V] See: [2015] ECHR 253 Article 8 Article 8-1 Respect for family life Respect for private life Detention and preventive measures outside the country where the applicant worked and lived with his family: violation Article 5 Article 5-1 Lawful arrest or detention Detention and preventive measures in the absence of reasonable suspicion of an offence: violation Facts - In April 2008 the Kyiv Police Department instituted criminal proceedings against the applicant in connection with financial fraud and listed him as a wanted person on the grounds that he did not live at his registered place of residence in Ukraine and his whereabouts were unknown. The applicant had in fact by then been working and living with his family in Germany for several years. In November 2008, while attending the migration service department in Kharkiv to renew his international travel passport, he was arrested and escorted to the distri...