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The National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU) confirmed the closure of one of the criminal proceedings against the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko. They said no evidence of embezzlement was found.
In response to a request from Radio Liberty, the office noted that the pre-trial investigation concerned two articles of the Penal Code: on misappropriation of assets through abuse of authority and on money laundering.
Qualification of the case: “Acquisition, possession, use, disposal of goods with respect to which the actual circumstances indicate their receipt by criminal means, including the execution of a financial transaction, the conclusion of a transaction with said goods or the transfer, change the form (transformation) of said property, or the performance of actions aimed at concealing, disguising the origin of said property or possession of it, the right to said property, sources of its origin, location, if these acts were committed by a person that he knew or should have known that such property was received directly or indirectly, in whole or in part by criminal means on an especially large scale, as well as the misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of other people’s property on an especially large scale by an official’s abuse of his official position. “
The NABU explained that the basis for opening the case was the ruling of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of January 9, 2020, which forced the detectives to do so. The case was opened at the request of the popular deputies.
However, “according to the results of the pre-trial investigation, it was established that there were no acts of the crimes contemplated in part 3 of article 209, part 5 of article 191,” the office reported.
In this regard, on January 25, 2021, a decision was made to close the criminal proceedings on the basis of paragraph 1 of part 1 of article 284 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine due to the absence of a criminal act.
The NABU clarified that the grounds for closing the case were provided by the investigative actions and their results, as well as other evidence and data “in their entirety and interrelation, based on a comprehensive, complete and impartial study of all the circumstances set forth in the Collective Appeal of the People’s Deputies of Ukraine “.
In this production, Poroshenko was not informed about the suspicion, the NABU said.
We will recall, earlier, the fifth president’s lawyers reported that the criminal process, which was opened on January 22, 2021 against US President Joe Biden and Poroshenko, over the alleged withdrawal of $ 100 billion from Ukraine, was urgently closed.
We are talking about criminal proceedings registered on December 17, 2019 at the request of deputies of the “Opposition Platform – For Life”, headed by Renat Kuzmin. In December 2019, Kuzmin released a statement of his appeal to NABU, which was signed by several of his fellow MPs. Subsequently, the Supreme Anticorruption Court ordered the NABU to open proceedings on this request.
