GPU Refuses Videoconference with Yanukovych before Interrogation

The Prosecutor General’s Office (GPU) refused the request of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to organize videoconference with current top officials of Ukraine, the source in GPU told ZN.UA.

According to the source, the criminal procedure law doesn’t allow to arrange 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 from the interrogation in Ukrainian Embassy.

On Tuesday, August 16, the ex-President’s attorney Vitalii Serdiuk has requested a courtroom videoconference for 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 face-to-face interrogation for Yanukovych is he comes to Ukraine.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda