Viktor Yanukovych . File photoKYIV, Feb 7The defense of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has begun familiarization with the materials of the case on the events of the «Euromaidan», said the lawyer of the ex-head of state Vitaliy Serdyuk on Monday. Earlier, the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine completed an investigation into the case on the events of the «Euromaidan» in Kiev against Yanukovych, in which he is charged including the creation of an organized criminal group (OCG). According to the investigation, the ex-president and nine other former officials allegedly committed «acts of terrorism with the aim of intimidating the population, which led to grave consequences and deaths», interfered with protests in Kiev, and also exceeded power and official authority.
Yanukovych will sue the Rada» We have finally got the opportunity not in words, but in deeds (documents) to check what the «Maidan» case consists of and the accusation of the fourth President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych of a provoked tragedy that has been imposed on society for many years. familiarization with the materials of the prosecution,» the press service of his law firm quotes Serdyuk. According to the lawyer, the case contains more than 1,900 volumes. Serdyuk noted that in the case file, the office of the Prosecutor General «deceives» citizens and hides the real perpetrators of the tragedy in Kiev in 2014. The lawyer noted that already in the first volume it is noteworthy that the Euromaidan case was launched not on the fact of murders and executions in the winter in the center of Kiev in 2014, but only on the application of members of the opposition political forces. Several cases were initiated against Yanukovych in Ukraine affairs. At the end of January 2019, the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv convicted Yanukovych in the case of treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison. Private lawyers for the ex-president, as well as state lawyer Yuri Ryabovol, filed appeals against the verdict. The ex-president of Ukraine himself believes that the verdict has nothing to do with the law, and the trial was a «political order.» He also stated that the judges in his case were under unprecedented pressure. On October 2, 2020, the Kiev Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against Yanukovych in the case of treason, the verdict came into force. After that, the defense of the ex-president filed an appeal. On December 6, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the verdict against Yanukovych. In November 2013, after the Ukrainian government announced that it was suspending the signing of an association agreement with the EU, the main Kiev square — Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) — was occupied by supporters of European integration. Later, the square became the epicenter of the confrontation between the security forces and the radicals. Responsibility for the death of more than 100 people was laid by the new Ukrainian authorities on their political opponent — President Yanukovych and the Berkut special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. completed the investigation of the case against Yanukovych
