Contents tagged with Prosecutor General's Office
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Ukraine extradites a native of Ingushetia at Russia's request
At the request of Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service), the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine made a decision to extradite to Russia Timur Tumgoev, a native of Ingushetia, accused by Russian authorities of participating in military operations in Syria on the side of the Islamic State terrorist.
The fact that the decree on extradition was signed by Yevhen Yenin, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, was reported by the publication Kavkaz. Realii. In a conversation with the Ukrainian …
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Ukraine identifies thousands of ‘traitors to the homeland’
Ukraine has established the full identities of more than 9,000 law enforcement staff members who are working in Crimea and are suspected of high treason, the Investigative Department of the Procuratorate of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea reported.
First Deputy Prosecutor Nikolay Ivanets announced on July 26 that the process of identifying traitors had been completed. He clarified that the total employee count of the 18 law enforcement agencies operating in Crimea before the Russian …
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Ukraine calls for foreigners attending events in Crimea to be prosecuted
The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Kyiv has proposed that foreigners who attend events in Crimea should be prosecuted, reported the Ukrainian regulator’s press service, citing chief prosecutor Hyunduz Mamedov, who spoke about it on July 24 at a meeting of Crimea’s law enforcement agencies on the state of crime and the detection of crimes committed on the peninsula during the first half of this year.
Mamedov reiterated that he had previously emphasized the necessity …
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Russia wants to question former US ambassador on Browder case
Alexander Kurennoi, official spokesperson of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, said that Moscow would like to question certain US officials and intelligence officers as part of the case against Hermitage Capital founder William Browder, RIA Novosti reports.
Kurennoi mentioned several names: Homeland Security Department official Todd Hyman, CIA agent Jim Rote, former deputy intelligence agency director Robert Otto, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, Jonathan Wiener – a former …
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Ukraine accuses two Russian MPs of financing terrorism
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (GPU) has drafted reports suspecting two members of Russia’s State Duma of financing terrorism, as announced on the GPU website.
“It has been established that two members of Russia’s State Duma, while located in Moscow, between March and June 2014, for the purpose of providing material support to the LPR and DPR terrorist organizations as part of the criminal group organized by [LDPR party leader Vladimir] Zhirinovsky, which has also been joined by …
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Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office working to seize more funds belonging to Yanuckovych
In 2018, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine plans to confiscate UAH 5 billion of funds belonging to the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and his entourage, as stated by the Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, on ZIK TV.
"Next year, we will continue the special confiscation of assets belonging to Yanukovych’s organized criminal group, we hope to impound no less than 5 billion," Lutsenko said.
He also added that the government should take all necessary steps to disburse …
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Head of Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s office: US is concerned over tensions between Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Prosecutor’s General Office
The US State Department supports Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies and is extremely unhappy with the conflict between the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), stated the Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP), Nazar Kholodnytsky.
"The first key message we heard from the US State Department was, "We support you 1000 %." These are their exact words. Their second statement is that all conflicts should be resolved through …
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Prosecutor General of Ukraine investigates the financing of some Ukrainian regional governments with Yanukovych’s money
The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) is investigating the funding of the former heads of the Regional State Administration of the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions, Vasyl Yadukha and Vasyl Bertash, from the so-called black accounting department of the Party of Regions, Ukrainski Novyny reports, citing court documents.
The Prosecutor General's Office asked the court to provide access to documents which are currently at Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regional administrations and which contain samples of …
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Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine: Assets of the son of Ukrainian fugitive Prime Minister Azarov seized in three counties
As part of the criminal investigation against Oleksiy Azarov, the son of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, his property and bank accounts in Ukraine, Italy, and Switzerland were seized, as stated in the Prosecutor General's Office response to the request of UNN (Ukrainian National News).
"During the pre-trial investigation, the property belonging to O.M. Azarov was seized, namely land plots and houses in Ukraine and the Italian Republic. Vehicles, as well as cash in the …
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Prosecutor’s General Office finds unjustified spending in Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
The General Prosecutor's Office found out that at the end of 2016 the receivables of the supply companies to the Defense Ministry tripled by 2.4 billion hryvnia ($90 million USD) and thus reached a record total amount of more than 6.1 billion hryvnia ($240 million USD), reported Zerkalo Nedeli (Ukrainian Weekly Newspaper).
According to the publication, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko sent a letter containing the data on these findings to Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman and the …