Kyiv's Pechersk court has turned down a claim on protection of honor, dignity and business reputation of former Member of Parliament from the former Regions Party, Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Ivaniushchenko, who was put on the wanted list on January 2015, against Ukrainian Member of Parliament, journalist Serhiy Leshchenko from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction.

"Today I have won a case from Ivaniushchenko. More precisely, it was 'Yura Yenakievsky' [as Ivaniushchenko is dubbed] who filed a case against me but he lost. [Former Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych's ally undertook to sue me after my broadcast by Savik Shuster Studio on November 20, 2015, where I recalled that Ivaniushchenko was Yanukovych's underboss and he was probed for involvement in the Maidan case for having brought hired thugs, also known as titushki, to Kyiv," Leshchenko wrote on Facebook on Monday.

Leshchenko revealed Ivaniushchenko had argued in the lawsuit that the word "underboss" belongs to prisoners' jargon, and is not applicable to him as he had not been in prison. No connection with the titushki was also established, therefore he has nothing to do with them," Leshchenko wrote.

He posted a copy of the court ruling by judge Iryna Lytvynova on his Facebook page.