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The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation in all criminal proceedings operates exclusively within the framework of the law and certain powers.
This is stated on the website of the Attorney General’s Office in response to accusations from the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine.
As you know, on December 2, NABU on its official website accused the Attorney General’s Office of allegedly obstructing the prosecution of those responsible in the case of the National Guard.
“We consider it necessary to draw the public’s attention that all decisions made by the Office of the Attorney General and, in particular, the Attorney General, are based solely on the requirements of Ukraine’s criminal procedural law, international treaties, the consent of which has been awarded by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, taking into account the practice of the European Court of Human Rights and within the time limit established by law, “said USO.
They also reported that on December 1, the Attorney General’s Office, in accordance with the requirements of art. 36, 37 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine, a group of prosecutors was amended, who will monitor compliance with the laws in the form of procedural guidance in criminal proceedings on the fact of providing an illegal benefit to ensure the issuance of a written opinion inaccurate by a forensic expert in the case of seizure of 81 million UAH from the National Guard of Ukraine, which is being investigated by detectives from NABU.
Because the case took a resonant status, in order to guarantee a speedy, complete, comprehensive and effective investigation of all the circumstances of the criminal process, the Attorney General decided to include the Attorney General in the group, says the OSU website .
Furthermore, in order to achieve an effective pretrial investigation and study the circumstances of the case in the merits, Acting was included in the group of prosecutors. SAP head Maxim Grischuk, and SAP department head Andrei Dovgan, were appointed senior of the group.
“At the same time, we emphasize that such actions of the Attorney General, in accordance with the requirements of Ukraine’s criminal procedural law, did not require any coordination with any person or body of pre-trial investigation,” says the website of the Attorney General’s Office. .
At the same time, according to the OSU, the change in the group of prosecutors in the criminal process does not affect the conduct of the investigative actions in the framework of the investigation prior to the criminal process by a public order body.
In addition, based solely on the results of the study of the materials of the criminal process, in compliance with the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code and the established procedural deadlines, the Attorney General prepared and signed a report of suspicion to the current people’s deputy as probable member of a criminal group that receives illicit benefits for exercising the legal powers assigned to him. and the duties of the People’s Deputy of Ukraine. Subsequently, on behalf of the Attorney General, on September 17, 2020, the prosecutors of the Anti-Corruption Special Prosecutor’s Office informed the People’s Deputy of Ukraine about the suspicion, “adds the Attorney General.
Furthermore, the OSU draws attention to the fact that the NABU detectives, instead of handing over all available materials to the Attorney General for study, in violation of the requirements of current legislation, released a video of covert investigative actions in order to try to pressure the Attorney General through the media. – community and public activists and unfounded charges of cover-up of potential defendants in criminal proceedings
In general, the Attorney General’s Office believes that such reproaches by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Office can be considered “only an attempt to publicly discredit both the head of a law enforcement agency and his employees, and reduce the level of public confidence in them to a critically low level by manipulating unfounded facts and allegations. “
Furthermore, distortions of the actual facts by the National Anti-Corruption Office may indicate an attempt to conceal the ineffectiveness of pre-trial investigations and the use of the media to pressure the Attorney General to adopt certain procedural decisions, what constitutes a violation of the current legislation of Ukraine and guarantees of independence and independence of the Prosecutor in the implementation of his activities “, – summarized in the office of Irina Venediktova.
We will recall, previously RBC-Ukraine wrote that the Attorney General’s Office is considering about 200 criminal war crimes cases. The investigations are under the procedural direction of the War Department.
