The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court held a regular meeting on the assignment of the Mezhyhirya residence by ex-president Viktor Yanukovych and his son Alexander. Yanukovych's lawyers again tried to drag out the process during the meeting, the Anti-Corruption Action Center reported.
In particular, the defenders of the fugitive president and his son wanted to postpone the meeting. They argued this by the fact that the presiding judge, and not the entire composition of the court, signed the summons to summon both Yanukovychs..
In addition, one of the lawyers said that the subpoena did not spell out the consequences of the non-appearance of his clients in court.. In particular, it does not indicate the possible application of special judicial proceedings.
Such petitions are aimed at delaying the case, in connection with which the judges, as expected, refused to satisfy. After that, the lawyers challenged the presiding. In their opinion, the judge forced the lawyers to participate in the hearing during air raid alerts and improperly informed Yanukovych about the hearings.. The withdrawal was also not successful, ”the CPC noted..
They also added that VAKS refused Yanukovych's lawyers to return the indictment to the prosecutor. Pre-production continues.
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Mezhyhirya is a tract with an estate in the village of Novye Petrivtsy, Kyiv region, which since 1935 served as a state residence. Until 2007, it was in state ownership, but in 2007 it passed into the hands of the then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The Prosecutor General's Office considered such appropriation illegal..
After Yanukovych's escape from Ukraine in 2014, the Verkhovna Rada voted to transfer Mezhyhirya to state ownership. In November 2017, by decision of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, Mezhyhirya was finally transferred to state ownership.
In October 2016, the Prosecutor General's Office informed Viktor Yanukovych and his son Oleksandr about the suspicion of taking possession of "
In June 2018, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv transferred Mezhyhirya to the management of the Asset Tracing and Management Agency (ARMA).