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The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the Council of the EU, when it placed the former prime minister of Ukraine on the sanctions list in March 2019, made a mistake in its assessment.
On December 16, the Court of the European Union declared illegal the EU Council’s decision to extend sanctions against the Prime Minister of Ukraine during the time of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych – Mykola Azarov.
The decision was posted on the court’s website.
The document says that the former prime minister’s lawyers appealed the extension of sanctions against Yanukovych and his entourage in March 2019. The court ruled that the EU Council did not verify whether the Ukrainian court’s decision, on the basis of which sanctions were extended, it was taken taking into account the rights to defense and effective legal support.
According to the text of the document, the EU Council made a mistake in its assessment when it decided to keep Azarov on the list.
“In these circumstances, the contested acts must be annulled to the extent that they relate to the applicant ”, says the text.
The court also ordered the Council of the EU to pay court costs.
The EU sanctions against Azarov, as well as former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavitsky, were lifted on March 6, 2020. At the same time, they extended the restrictions against Yanukovych himself and nine others. persons responsible for the abuse of power that caused the loss of public funds of Ukraine.
At the beginning there were 22 people on the list: former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, his two sons Alexander and Viktor, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, his son Aleksey, former Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko, former Attorney General Viktor Pshonka and his son Artem, former Director Presidential Administration Andrei Klyuev, former Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Klyuev, former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Andrei Portnov, former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Ratushnyak, former First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Arbuzov, former Minister of Revenue and Duties Alexander Klymenko, former Minister of Energy Stavitsky, former Minister of Education Dmitry Tabachnik, businessman Sergei Kurchenko, former Minister of Justice Elena Lukash, former Minister of Health Raisa Bogatyreva, former SBU director Alexander Yakimenko, former SBU director, former Yanukovych adviser Igor Kalinushin and former Yuri Ivanchenko people’s deputy …
During 2015-2019 the sanctions of 10 of them, including those of the late Viktor Yanukovych, Jr.
Now the former president and nine of his associates remain on the list: Alexander Yanukovych, Pshonka with his son, Zakharchenko, Ratushnyak, Arbuzov, Klimenko, Tabachnik, Kurchenko.
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