Lawyer of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych Vitaly Serdyuk commented on the decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, which on December 6 upheld the sentence imposing a sentence of 13 years in a penal colony in the case of the annexation of Crimea and high treason.
“The authorities did not invent anything new, but copied the scenario of the political reprisal against Viktor Yanukovych from the Obolonsky District Court. Engaged tame judges, non-admission of the Client to participation in meetings, a previously prepared court decision, disregard of the right to defense. But such performances will not be able to be implemented in the European court, for the transfer of the case to which we have today no longer had the last obstacle. The ECHR, unlike the Ukrainian justice system, will not be able to turn a blind eye to the obvious violations of the right to defense committed by the authorities and the court in this process, ”Serdyuk said.
As a reminder, on December 6, the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the decision of the previous instance court against the former president of Ukraine. Viktor Yanukovych, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in the case of the annexation of Crimea and high treason.
Earlier, Yanukovych’s defender Vitaly Serdyuk told Crimea.Realii that the fugitive president of Ukraine convicted of high treason withdrew his lawyers from participation in the proceedings on the annexation of Crimea in the Supreme Court of Ukraine due to the “impossibility of ensuring his right to defense.”
In September 2021 Viktor Yanukovych filed a cassation appeal on the verdict of the Kiev court in the case of the annexation of Crimea.
In April 2021 Yanukovych saidthat he wants to take part by video link in the trial on the consideration of the cassation appeal against the decisions of the Obolonsky District Court of Kiev and the Kiev Court of Appeal on the annexation of Crimea in the Supreme Court of Ukraine.
January 24, 2019 Obolonsky District Court of Kiev found Yanukovych guilty in high treason and aiding in the planning, preparation, unleashing and waging of an aggressive war and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. At the same time, the court considers the ex-president innocent of complicity in an encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine. The prosecutor’s office asked to sentence Yanukovych to 15 years in prison. October 2, 2020 Kiev Court of Appeal upheld the sentence Obolonsky District Court of Kiev.
Viktor Yanukovych does not consider himself guilty.
19 march Ukraine’s NSDC imposed sanctions against Yanukovych for “assistance in strengthening the occupation regime in Crimea and Donbass”.
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