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A meeting will be held at the Kiev Pechersky District Court on December 9, in which the request of the Attorney General’s Office to elect a measure of restraint to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in the Euromaidan case will be considered, he said. his lawyer Vitaly Serdyuk. The fugitive president demands to ensure his participation in the hearing and to question the witnesses.
Former fugitive President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych wants to personally participate in the meeting of the Kiev Pechersky District Court, in which they will consider the request of the Attorney General’s Office to elect him as a measure of restraint in the Euromaidan case.
Yanukovych’s lawyer, Vitaliy Serdyuk, announced this on Facebook.
“Viktor Yanukovych appealed to the Pechersky District Court with a demand to guarantee his personal participation in the process, as the Svyatoshinsky Court did in this case in 2016. Furthermore, the victims themselves must be admitted to the case,” Serdyuk wrote .
He clarified that the judicial session will begin on December 9. at 2:45 p.m.
According to him, Yanukovych wants the court to listen to witnesses during the trial.
“To solve the murders on the Maidan, committed in February 2014, together with the participation of Viktor Yanukovych and the victims, it is necessary to publicly question the witnesses of both the then government and the Maidan,” Serdyuk said.
The lawyer believes that it is necessary to question those who worked with Yanukovych:
- the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov;
- the former head of the Interior Ministry Vitaly Zakharchenko;
- Heycs-head of the Security Service Alexandra Yakimenko.
In addition, he considers necessary the testimony of the leaders of the Maidan: former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the fifth President Petro Poroshenko, the former spokesman of the Verkhovna Rada, the people’s deputy Andrei Parubiy, the former secretary of the Defense and National Security Council Alexander Turchinov, former attorney general Yuri Lutsenko “and others who came to power as a result of the events.”
Likewise, Yanukovych’s lawyer insists on the participation in the hearings of former people’s deputy David Zhvania, “who has been asking the prosecution for several months to hear his testimony,” the call Euromaidan Ivan Bubenchik and former people’s deputy Vladimir Parasyuk.
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-appointed from office and not fulfilling his duties, after which new presidential elections were announced. Yanukovych left Ukraine, now with his family lives in Russia.
On February 26, 2014, the Prosecutor General 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 on suspicion of premeditated killings during massive 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.
In the case of the dispersal of the Maidan from February 18 to 20, 2014, Yanukovych was arrested in absentia by the Kiev Pechersk District Court in May 2020. The General Prosecutor’s Office reported that the court’s decision on the arrest of Yanukovych in absentia grants the prosecution the right to initiate the extradition procedure. On November 16, the Kiev Court of Appeal reversed the arrest in the absence of the fugitive president.
The former president still has one more arrest in absentia, a sentence that has come into force and a judicial decision to detain him to choose a preventive measure. If he returns to Ukraine he will be arrested, he emphasized in the Attorney General’s Office on November 20.
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