Vlad Makarenko, one of the brothers who was in jail for several months based on false accusations and eventually released from custody, is now speaking up about the rest of his family. The main question is: How can innocent people be arrested and taken to jail and kept in custody under horrible conditions for months on end solely based on one person's statement which is now clearly unreliable and simply untrue.

Vlad's words: 

"They dropped charges against me because of my alibi. Obviously, the guy was lying about me. But they are still using his statement, obviously unreliable, to hold my parents and my brother in jail."

"Just because someone, who you've never even met, said something about you, they are going to arrest you tomorrow and put you in jail for like, months. Not only you, but all of your family. How would you feel?"

"I really hope that our justice system will be improved so that stories like this, like my story, like my family's story, will never happen again."