“We asked the judge who deals with citizenship issues to make a decision,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Rubilar emphasized that the judge initially delayed making a decision.
“I filed an appeal so that she makes a decision now, because Churkin wants to be tried by an impartial court in Argentina,” he said.
The defense lawyer said that Churkin would receive this right upon receipt of Argentine citizenship.
On February 2, it became known that the Ukrainian authorities accused Churkin, who was detained in Argentina, of a fraudulent attempt to preserve the property of the Lviv Bus Plants enterprise.
According to the lawyer, the process of considering the request to extradite Churkin to Ukraine has been suspended until a decision is made to grant him asylum; the likelihood of extradition is low.