Yanukovych's lawyers continue to riot in court

16 August 2018, 15:09 | Policy
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Prosecutors ask the court to sentence former President Viktor Yanukovych, accused of high treason, to 15 years in prison.

This was stated by the prosecutor Maksim Krym during the judicial debate, write the Ukrainian News.

Prosecutors Crimea and Ruslan Kravchenko read about the text of the debate for about 30 minutes. During the speech, five Yanukovych lawyers shouted at the prosecutors and prevented them from speaking. They also included a pre-recorded video of ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, in which he asks to be interrogated in court as a witness.

Nevertheless, prosecutors nevertheless read the full text of the speech. For example, Yanukovych is accused of having withdrawn from the post of president on 22-23 February 2014 and voluntarily agreed to cooperate with the Russian authorities and the military to seize the territory of the Crimea. For this he drafted and sent to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin an appeal with the request to deploy troops to Ukraine.

The prosecutor's office regards this fact as a legal basis for the annexation of the peninsula prepared by Russia.

For prosecuted crimes, the prosecutor's office requests that Yanukovych be sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In May 2017, military prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko said that the highest penalty in the case of high treason was a life imprisonment and that the prosecution would apply for such punishment.

Recall Yanukovych incriminated state treasury (h. 1 st. 111 CC), complicity in separatism (h. 5 items. 27, h. 3 items. 110 CC) and complicity in the conduct of an aggressive war (h. 5 items.

27, h. 2 items. 437 of the Criminal Code). He is tried in absentia, t. he is hiding from justice in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Note that the court tried to move to the debate on May 3, but returned to the interrogation of witnesses at the petition of the defense of Yanukovych. Later, the lawyers of the ex-president several times broke the debate.

The debate - the last stage of the trial, after which the sentence will be announced.




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