Began preliminary hearing on the charges Yanukovych of treason

In the present case is more than 100 witnesses.

Obolonskiy district court of Kiev began the preparatory court hearing in the criminal proceedings against former President Viktor Yanukovych of treason.

This was announced by the presiding judge Vladislav Devyatko.

“The trial was declared open,” he said.

Present at the meeting of public prosecutors of military Prosecutor’s office Ruslan Kravchenko and Maxim Crimea, also in a meeting attended by the lawyers of Igor Fedorenko Vitaliy Serdyuk.

At today’s session of the court called Yanukovych’s agenda, which was published on the official website of the “Judicial power”.

As the Prosecutor told Ruslan Kravchenko, in the case of treason the ex-President is more than 100 witnesses, which include current and former high-ranking officials. They will be questioned in court.

Recall, January 17, 2017, the state office of public Prosecutor received a copy of the statement of Yanukovych with a request to send troops to Ukraine. We are talking about the document that was read in the UN permanent representative Vitaly Churkin. Earlier, the press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin had not received an official letter from Yanukovych with a request to send troops. And the Russian Prosecutor General’s office stated that no such letter exists. However, later, the Russian foreign Ministry admitted that Yanukovych asked Putin to send troops, but stated that it was “not a letter, and statement.”

GPU transmitted the document to the charge against Yanukovych and the March 14 indictment was submitted to the court. Yanukovych is accused that on March 1, 2014, staying on the territory of the Russian Federation, he committed treason by submitting a written statement to the President of the Russian Federation with a request to use Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine. This subsequently led to the loss of the Crimea and Ukraine of objects of state property amounting to more than 1,080 trillion hryvnia.

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