Former Minister of Justice Oleksandr Lavrynovych and former Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko were put on the state and international wanted list, they were put up with Interpol red cards, Tatyana Sapyan, speaker of the State Bureau of Investigation, said during a telethon. According to her, if they are found, Ukraine will demand their extradition..

“The investigation became aware that the ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs left Ukraine in January of this year and flew to Paris.. And the ex-Minister of Justice left Ukraine in May. The real place of their stay is established and is a secret of the pre-trial investigation.. But both defendants in the criminal proceedings on high treason have been put on the state and international wanted list,” Sapyan said..

The next step and stage, according to her, will be obtaining court permission to detain Lavrynovych and Grishchenko.. After that, a petition will be filed to elect the defendants in the case a measure of restraint in the form of detention.

“And in parallel, the investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation will petition for extradition and for them to be put on the wanted list through the Interpol red line.. I want to note that the investigation of the Kharkiv agreements did not stop for a moment,” Sapyan added..

On the eve it became known that Grishchenko and Lavrynovych reported suspicion of treason. Ex-officials are accused of agreeing on the draft Kharkiv agreements without legal expertise and consideration by the interested authorities.

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The Kharkiv agreements were signed on April 21, 2010 by the then presidents of Ukraine and Russia Viktor Yanukovych and Dmitry Medvedev. On the Ukrainian side, the main ideologist of their imprisonment was the then First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev, with the support of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Raisa Bogatyreva, who Viktor Yanukovych inherited from Viktor Yushchenko, and, of course, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. The foreign policy direction in the administration of President Yanukovych was then supervised by Andriy Goncharuk, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was headed by Konstantin Grishchenko.

One of the main developers and promoters of the Kharkiv agreements, who had a hand in writing them, was Ruslan Demchenko, the then Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, who until recently was the first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Alexei Danilov and the head of the intelligence committee. The day before, President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Ruslan Demchenko from the post of first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and also removed the head of the intelligence committee from his post.

In addition, at the disposal of ZN. UA has copies of a number of documents signed not only by the fugitives of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. As can be seen from the certificates on the approval of the draft decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On the approval of the draft “Agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the issues of the presence of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine” and the draft of the same agreement, the heads of such ministries and departments also had a hand in the preparation of these documents:.

Read about the investigation of the Kharkov agreements case and the officials who were directly involved in their approval in the article by Tatyana Silina “Will the case of the Kharkov agreements turn into a steamship whistle?”?