“He is a witness in this proceeding,” the Prosecutor General replied to the question of what procedural status Poroshenko has in the case of Medvedchuk’s tapes.
“If you now want me to say whether he is guilty or not, then I cannot. Because we will immediately transfer the case from the criminal procedural plane to the political one … We invite him for interrogation at the SBU. As long as you can see how … This is such a life, “she added.
The Prosecutor General also stressed that she is ready to apply the forced drive of Poroshenko if the investigator turns to her with an agreement on such a petition.
Context:
May 11 Venediktova signed suspicions to Medvedchuk and his colleague Taras Kozak in high treason and attempted plunder of national resources. The media reported that in the house of Medvedchuk in Kiev and the office of the HLE SBU conducted searches.
There are three episodes in the case, the first of them concerns assistance to Russia in obtaining an oil and gas field in the annexed Crimea, the second – the transfer of secret information about the Ukrainian troops to the special services of the Russian Federation, the third – the participation of the defendants in the development of the “Luch” project, with the help of which it was planned recruit Ukrainian migrants to the Russian Federation.
On May 12, Medvedchuk and his lawyers came to the Office of the Prosecutor General and got acquainted with the suspicion… According to the politician’s defenders, he was informed of the suspicion under Art. 111 (high treason) and under Art. 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. As Venediktova clarified, the suspicion under Art. 438 concerns plunder of national resources in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.
May 13 Pechersk District Court of Kiev sent Medvedchuk under round-the-clock house arrest until July 9, on it put on an electronic bracelet… The prosecutor’s office asked to arrest him until July 10 with an alternative to bail of UAH 300 million.
Bihus.info journalists published three parts of Medvedchuk’s conversations. In the first, published on May 17, a man with a voice similar to the voice of the people’s deputy was talking with Russian politicians and militants. In one of the conversations, the leader of the “LPR” militants threatened to destroy a convoy of armored vehicles of Ukraine if its advance was not stopped. Medvedchuk responded by telling him that Poroshenko, who at that time was the president of Ukraine, called back and “said that he had given the command to return the convoy to Izvarino.”
On May 24, Bihus.info posted new entries that explain the history of Medvedchuk’s receipt of the Ukrainian part of the oil product pipeline “Samara – Western Direction”.
The third entry appeared on May 31st. It talks about on the supply of coal to Ukraine from the occupied territories. According to journalists, Medvedchuk organized negotiations on this topic.
Representatives of European Solidarity claim that the released recordings of the conversations were “leaked from the President’s Office” with the aim of discrediting Poroshenko and his party.
Medvedchuk named the published recordings of his conversations provocation and “fake factory”.
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