The court in Kyiv gave permission for the absentee arrest of Yanukovych

The court in Kyiv gave permission for the arrest in absentia of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in the case of “Euromaidan”, the press service of the office of the country’s Prosecutor General reports in the Telegram channel. We are talking about the events from 18 to 20 February 2014.

“The investigation established that the former President of Ukraine, together with the head of the Security Service, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Defense and other high-ranking officials of law enforcement agencies, without legal grounds, organized the use of special means, military equipment, firearms to forcefully counter and disperse demonstrators,” the statement reads. in the message.

In Ukraine, several cases have already been initiated against Yanukovych. In early October 2021, he was arrested in absentia on charges of misappropriation of the Mezhyhirya residence in the Kyiv region. In January 2019, Yanukovych was sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison on charges of high treason. He appealed the verdict, which the Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld in October 2020. Yanukovych himself denies his guilt.

In 2021, the ex-president was suspected of creating an organized crime group. According to investigators, the organized criminal group, which in addition to Yanukovych included officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service (SBU) and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, committed grave and especially grave criminal offenses during mass protests in the center of Kyiv in February 2014.