GALAMAY v. UKRAINE - 44801/13 (Judgment : Right to a fair trial : Fifth Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

��������� Mārtiņ� Mits, President, ��������� Jovan Ilievski, ��������� Ivana Jelić, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 44801/13 ) against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (�the Convention�) by a Ukrainian national, Mr Igor Romanovych Galamay (�the applicant�), on 4 July 2013;

the decision to give notice to the Ukrainian Government (�the Government�) of the complaint set out in paragraph 1 below and to declare inadmissible the remainder of the application;

The applicant alleged that his lawyer had not been allowed access to him while the authorities had been conducting an examination of his office. In the course of the examination, they discovered marked money and traces of the marking substance on the applicant�s hands; and the applicant made certain statements about the origin of the money. That evidence was later used to convict him of bribery. He complained under Article 6 �� 1 and 3 (c) of the Convention.