GPU Declines Videoconference with Yanukovych
The Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) refused the request of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to organize a videoconference with current top officials of Ukraine, a source in the GPU told ZN.UA.
According to the source, criminal procedure law doesn’t allow to arrange a videoconference before the previous interrogations of all persons concerned were organized.
"First, we have to conduct questioning of all persons involved. Yanukovych was not interrogated so far," the source said.
The ZN.UA interlocutor said that the GPU had already sent three requests to Russia to establish the whereabouts of Yanukovych for questioning him and six requests to detain and extradite him to Ukraine, but all these requests were ignored. Likewise, Yanukovych refused a meeting in the Ukrainian Embassy.
On Tuesday, August 16, the ex-President’s attorney Vitalii Serdiuk requested a courtroom videoconference with Yanukovych and Petro Poroshenko, ex-PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy, Kyiv City Mayor Vitali Klitschko, and National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko promised to organize a face-to-face meeting for Yanukovych if he comes to Ukraine.
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda
