86As regards, first of all, the decision of the investigating judge of 19 August 2019, it should be observed that, contrary to the Council’s submissions, it is not apparent from that decision that the applicant’s rights of defence and right to effective judicial protection were respected in the present case. Although it is true, as the Council points out in its letter of 6 March 2020 (see point 81 above), that the investigating judge of the Pechersk District Court was able to conclude that, in Case 113 to which this decision relates, the applicant was a suspected person, that he was on an international list of wanted persons, that the public prosecutor had proved that he was hiding from the authorities in charge of the preliminary investigation and that there was sufficient reason to believe that he would continue to do so, the fact remains that it does not appear from the documents in the case file that the Council had in fact taken into consideration the information that the applicant had communicated to it in his letter of 23 January 2020, as well as previously in his letters of 19 December 2018 and 4 February 2019.
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