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The Court of Appeal has sent the case file against fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych to the trial court for examination.
The Kiev Court of Appeal in a meeting on November 16 canceled the arrest in the absence of former fugitive President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in the case. on the organization of violent crimes in the center of Kiev from February 18 to 20, 2014. The broadcast was made on the channel “Judicial Branch of Ukraine” on YouTube.
“To partially satisfy the appeal of the defenders. The decision of the investigating judge of the Pechersk court of May 12, 2020, which granted the request of the investigator and applied a preventive measure in the form of detention, must be canceled. To appoint a retrial in the court of first instance, “says the decision. the judge read aloud.
On May 12, the Kiev Pechersk Court arrested Yanukovych in absentia in this case. IN The Public Prosecutor’s Office was informed that the court’s decision on the arrest of Yanukovych in absentia gives the prosecution the right to initiate extradition proceedings.
Yanukovych has been President of Ukraine since February 25, 2010. February 22, 2014 after three months of protests on the Maidan The Verkhovna Rada recognized him as self-deposed from office and not fulfilling his duties., after which new presidential elections were announced. Yanukovych left Ukraine, now lives with his family in Russia.
On February 26, 2014, the Attorney General’s Office of Ukraine announced that Yanukovych, the former head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Klyuev, former Attorney General Viktor Pshonka, former Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko and others were announced as suspected of committing premeditated killings during mass events. in the center of Kiev. …
Yanukovych was in absentia on January 24, 2019 found guilty by the Kiev Obolonsky District Court in high treason and coadjuvant in a war of aggression and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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