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Zelenskyy undermines key Anti-Corruption reforms. With draft law No 12414, Zelenskyy is destroying the key anti-corruption achievements of the Revolution of Dignity and taking us back to the Yanukovych era (at least in terms of justice). Today, the Verkhovna Rada’s law enforcement committee voted for the respective amendments to draft law No 12414. Anastasia Radina, Chairman of the Committee on […]
Andriy Portnov is probably best known as the chief lawyer and judicial reformer during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency. In 2010, Yanukovych appointed Portnov as the head of the Main Directorate for Judicial Reform and Court System. Who was one of the greatest enemies of Ukraine? Summing up by censor.net. Portnov himself was a member of the High Council of Justice, to […]
Andriy Portnov, former adviser to the fugitive president Yanukovych, was allegedly shot dead around 9 a.m. today in Madrid suburb, Spain. This was reported by Reuters, citing a police source. According to preliminary information, the incident occurred near the gates of the American School in the affluent neighborhood of Pozuelo (a suburb of Madrid), while Portnov was dropping his children […]
1,5 billion dollars are returned to the Ukraine state budget – money of ex-president Victor Yanukovich’s entourage, out of which 87% is in real cash. This news is announced by Yevgeniy Enin, deputy Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in the “Unofficial talk” TV program on “Dom” TV channel, as informed by Censor.Net. I was taking an active part in […]
The EU Council's decision to lift sanctions from former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Eduard Stavitskyi came into force
EU ambassadors prolong sanctions against Russia because of the annexation of Crimea, but remove former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych's people from the EU sanction list
Oleksandr Babikov, lawyer of the fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych,may become deputy head of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). The deputy will be entrusted with an audit of the Maidan cases, as reported by NGO Family of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes.
Ukraine’s pro-Russian former president, Viktor Yanukovych, has been linked to a widening scandal involving Sweden’s Swedbank, neweurope reports. According to documents reviewed by Sweden’s state-owned broadcaster, Swedbank appears to have been an instrument for transferring millions of euros in kickbacks that were acquired by Yanukovych while he was in office to other EU banks. Over the last year, Swedbank’s CEO has […]
Former Head of the General Staff of Ukraine Volodymyr Zamana was charged with treason, the Chief Military Prosecutor Volodymyr Matios says. Charges against Zamana suggest he allegedly reduced the number of combat personnel and dissolved the military units. These actions are said to have destroyed the country’s antiaircraft defense system. According to Matios, in 2013 Zamana decreased the combat personnel […]
“Zakharchenko’s property” was arrested again: the court explained the scheme with the participation of the owner-businessman. The court once again seized the property of the Dutch company “Fund Administration Bureau LVV” within the framework of the case instituted against ex Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko on the charge of illegal enrichment and money laundering. The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv passed […]
Kyiv court lifts arrest from assets of fugitive Interior Minister Zakharchenko. On January 30, 2019 Kyiv’s district-level Pechersk court annulled the arrest of assets of the Yanukovych-time Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. The arrest was earlier ordered by court in the case under investigation on money-laundering and illicit enrichment by the fugitive Interior Minister. The assets in question include 20 land […]
Date: January 24, 2019 Location: Kyiv, Ukraine A Ukrainian court has found former President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of high treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison. “Yanukovych committed a crime against the foundation of Ukraine’s national security,” Judge Vladyslav Devyatko said in Kyiv’s Obolon district court on January 24, 2019. Yanukovych, 68, was also found guilty […]