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During the examination of the restraining measure of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the Kiev Pechersk District Court admitted that the suspect’s lawyers withdrew from the meeting.
The Kiev Pechersk District Court in a meeting on December 9 decided to appoint the former fugitive president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych a new free state attorney. This was reported on December 10 by “Ukrainian Truth”.
The judicial session was dedicated to choosing a preventive measure for Yanukovych, suspected of being involved in the Euromaidan events of February 18-20, 2014.
The attorneys asked for time to familiarize themselves with the case materials, but did not show up after the break. Prosecutors drew attention to this.
“In fact, we have self-elimination,” said the judge.
The publication notes that if the lawyers appear again in court, they will be able to participate.
Yanukovych himself was refused by the court to participate in the meeting via a video link.
Examination of the request for the extension of Yanukovych’s arrest in absentia will continue later.
The former president was repeatedly appointed state attorneys, with which Yanukovych did not always agree. In particular, in August 2018, the Kiev Obolonsky District Court refused to dismiss the lawyer from the Yuriy Ryabovol Free Legal Aid Center from the trial.
Yanukovych has been President of Ukraine since February 25, 2010. On February 22, 2014, after three months of protests at the Maidan, the Verkhovna Rada recognized him as an ousted auto and not performing his duties, after which new presidential elections were announced. Yanukovych left Ukraine, now he lives with his family in Russia.
On February 26, 2014, the Attorney General’s Office of Ukraine announced that Yanukovych, 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 premeditated killings during mass events. in the center of Kiev. …
On January 24, 2019, Yanukovych was found in absentia by the Kiev Obolonsky District Court guilty of high treason and assisting in a war of aggression and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
In the case of the Maidan dispersal from February 18 to 20, 2014, Yanukovych was arrested in absentia by the Pechersk District Court in May 2020. The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that the court’s decision to arrest Yanukovych in absentia grants the prosecution the right to initiate extradition proceedings. On November 16, the Kiev Court of Appeal overturned the arrest of the fugitive president in absentia.
The former president still has one more arrest in absentia, a sentence that has entered into force and a judicial decision to detain him to choose a preventive measure. If he returns to Ukraine, he will be arrested, he stressed at the Attorney General’s Office on November 20.
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