Yanukovych Wants Court Videoconference With Poroshenko

Viktor Yanukovych has requested a courtroom videoconference with President Petro Poroshenko, the ex-President’s attorney Vitalii Serdiuk told Ukrayinska Pravda.

"The official request to the Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) was submitted on Tuesday," Serdiuk specified.

In particular, Yanukovych wants to question President Poroshenko, ex-PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, Kyiv City Mayor Vitali Klitschko, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov and other officials summoned by the GPU with regard to the ‘Maidan case.’

"To ensure transparency, Yanukovych insists on a court investigation, because only evidence provided in court matters," the attorney explained.

However, Yanukovych is not willing to come to Ukraine. Sviatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv has already ruled to organize videoconference questioning of ex-Berkut officers, Serdiuk reminded.

Yanukovych is charged inter alia with receiving a ₴26 million bribe in 2011-2012 from a private company. The ex-President fled Ukraine after mass killings of Maidan protesters in February 2016 in Kyiv. Since then, he has been living in Russia.

Source: Oksana Kovalenko, Ukrayinska Pravda