The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has granted permission to arrest ex-president Viktor Yanukovych in the case of illegal crossing of the state border. He is suspected of helping 20 people cross the Russian-Ukrainian border.
This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General in its Telegram channel.
"With the participation of prosecutors of the Prosecutor Generalʼs Office, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention of the former President of Ukraine suspected of organizing illegal smuggling of persons across the state border of Ukraine (Part 2 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code)." the message says.
Yanukovych is suspected of helping at least 20 people with three Russian army helicopters to reach Russia from the village of Urzuf in Donetsk oblast on February 23, 2014, together with the Administration of State Guard of Ukraine staff and Russians. They all flew to the Russian city of Anapa.
- On December 16, the Supreme Court upheld a verdict against fugitive ex-president Viktor Yanukovych for treason. The court upheld the decision of the Kyiv Court of Appeal. He confirmed the decision of the Obolon district court of the capital, which in January 2019 imprisoned Yanukovych for 13 years.
- On November 5, the State Bureau of Investigation informed Viktor Yanukovych, who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison, of a new suspicion of being the leader of an organized crime group.
- A number of other proceedings have been instituted against the former president. We are talking about the usurpation of power, treason in the case of the Kharkiv Agreements, the seizure of the Mezhyhirya tract, the complex of buildings in Pushcha-Vodytsya, and the forestry in the village of Sukholuchchia, falsification of voting results for "dictatorial laws" and receiving a bribe from the “Novyi Svit” printing house and ordering law enforcement officers to disperse participants in the Revolution of Dignity.