Contents tagged with Prosecutor General's Office

  • Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine: Russia gave a bogus address for Yanukovych

    The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office gave the Ukrainian prosecutor a bogus residential address for former president Viktor Yanukovych as stated by Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), while on air with 112 Ukraine TV Channel.

    “The Russian Prosecutor’s General Office gave us a bogus residential address for the suspected individual, Yanukovych,” he said.

    “After that we sent requests to all the possible residential addresses and whereabouts …

  • Russia denies that Yanukovych sent a letter asking to deploy Russian troops to Ukraine during Maidan

    According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation claims that the authorities of the country never received a letter from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych asking to deploy Russian troops to the territory of Ukraine.  

    "A letter came from the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. They write that neither the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation nor the Federation Council of …

  • The SBU and the Prosecutor General's Office accused Russia of secretly promoting the federalization of Ukraine

    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has accused Russia of bribing representatives of local and central government to secretly promote the federalization of Ukraine. This was reported at a briefing by the head of the SBU, Vasyl Hrytsak and by Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.

    According to them, one of the main objectives of Russian policy towards Ukraine is to secretly federalize Ukraine breaking it onto free economic zones, carrying out elections of the local governors, providing Russian …

  • Yanukovych will cooperate in hearings if General Prosecutor takes into consideration the assassination attempts against him

    The former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, will participate in court hearings on his case only after the assassination attempt on his life is considered in the proceedings. Yanukovych’s lawyer, Vitaliy Serdyuk, stated this in his interview with Ukrainian National News.

    “Yanukovych will remotely participate in court hearings until the General Prosecutor’s Office takes seriously the attempts on his life. Currently, this case is in the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine and the defense makes …

  • Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office: Yanukovych’s testimonies gave us lots of new information

    The Head of the Department of Special Investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Sergey Gorbatyuk, stated in an interview with Sonya Koshkina on Left Coast that the General Prosecutor’s Office received a considerable amount of work during the testimonies of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

    According to him, these testimonies can be used not only in the case against Berkut officers, in which Yanukovych was a witness, but also in the proceeding in which the former …

  • Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office will question Poroshenko on November 29

    The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has summoned the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, for questioning about the crimes committed against Maidan activists in January and February of 2014. “A notice has been sent to the president’s administration for November 29,” the head of the Special Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, Sergiy Gorbatyuk, said on Tuesday, November 15. Poroshenko was invited as a witness.

    The fact that high-ranking politicians …

  • Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office sets up hotline to gather information on creation of separatist republics

    Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, commenting on the detention of one of the ex-leaders of the Party of Regions, Oleksandr Yefremov, who is suspected of involvement in the creation of the so-called LPR, stated that the General Prosecutor’s Office has set up a telephone line and two email accounts to gather information about individuals who helped to create the terrorist organizations Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic.

    "The GPU has set up a direct telephone line ( …