Eduard Stavitsky, former Minister of Energy and Coal Industry, is currently in Israel.
Strana has compiled a list of the top 10 citizens who are on Interpol's international wanted list.
Parliament went into May recess without securing a majority of votes for a bill that would have simplified the procedure for in absentia convictions, primarily aimed at former President Viktor Yanukovych and his associates. This would have allowed former top officials to be tried without being placed on Interpol's wanted list.
On the final day of the session, the Verkhovna Rada refused to authorize a special preliminary investigation into individuals who have committed serious and especially serious crimes and are on the national wanted list. Only 160 members of parliament voted in favor of the corresponding bill, No. 3196, "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine (regarding the inevitability of punishment for individuals who have committed serious and especially serious crimes)," in the first reading, while the minimum required vote was 226. The bill was authored by MP Anton Gerashchenko.
The whole point is that Interpol constantly rejects search warrants for Yanukovych and his team, calling it political persecution.
As Serhiy Gorbatyuk, the chief investigator for the Maidan cases, noted, one of the main conditions for a conviction in absentia is an international search warrant. Files on every major official from the Yanukovych era were sent to Interpol. But in all Maidan-related cases, Interpol's response was the same: citing Article 3 of its charter. In other words, they see signs of political persecution and refuse to place them on the international wanted list.
Matios gave Stavitsky a "black mark"
While parliament debates whether to vote for Gerashchenko's bill, the prosecutor's office is trying to find loopholes and still get some work done in the cases against former Yanukovych officials. For example, before the weekend, Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios visited Israel, where he conveyed to the Israeli Minister of Justice a request from the Prosecutor General's Office for assistance in the investigation of the case against former Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavytsky, specifically the notice of suspicion.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office press service, the Chief Military Prosecutor forwarded to the Israeli Minister of Justice a request from the Prosecutor General's Office for international legal assistance in the investigation of former Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Eduard Stavytskyi regarding the latter's receipt of a notice of suspicion for committing particularly serious crimes against the state. According to Interpol data available to the investigation, the former Ukrainian minister is currently in Israel, having changed his name to Nathan Rosenberg. The Israeli side has assured that the request will be processed as soon as possible, but has not yet provided an affirmative response. Since Stavytskyi is an Israeli citizen, Matios's request could easily be denied, as the Israeli state is extremely zealous in protecting the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
As a reminder, on April 23, 2014, the SBU placed Stavitsky on a wanted list on suspicion of appropriation of property through abuse of office. Stavitsky is a defendant in a criminal case opened in connection with the commission of crimes by senior government officials under the articles "embezzlement and misappropriation of property through abuse of office on an especially large scale" and "money laundering."
Yanukovych and Co. have been removed from the Interpol website.
As of today, there is no publicly available information on the Interpol website regarding the wanted lists of Viktor Yanukovych, his son Oleksandr, or any of the officials previously placed on international wanted lists. As Prosecutor General's Office spokesman Vladislav Kutsenko hastily attempted to justify, Interpol's search for the top officials from the Viktor Yanukovych era has not been terminated, but rather blocked. According to Kutsenko, under international law, anyone on the international wanted list has the right to appeal their wanted list if they believe they are being persecuted for alleged political reasons. Viktor Yanukovych and his associates in Exile have taken advantage of this. Their lawyers have filed complaints claiming that they are being persecuted by Ukraine for political reasons.
"They haven't been removed from the wanted list in connection with this complaint, but according to Interpol rules, from this point on, their profile and the information previously posted on the Interpol website are blocked," noted Prosecutor General Kutsenko. "After the complaint is reviewed and a decision is made, the information will either be reinstated or removed if they prove to our colleagues that they are indeed being persecuted for political reasons."
It was previously reported that accomplices of Viktor Yanukovych's regime, who were on the international wanted list, had disappeared from the Interpol official website's wanted list.
In particular, former Health Minister Raisa Bogatyreva, businessman Sergei Kurchenko, and former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov have disappeared (Read more: Nikolai Azarov. The Survivor. Part 1), former Minister of Finance Yuri Kolobov (several months ago, a Spanish court refused to extradite him to Ukraine due to the vagueness of the charges brought against him), former MP and close associate of Yanukovych, Yuriy Ivanyushchenko.
Interpol is currently searching for the former head of Ukrspetsexport, the director of the Kyiv Armored Plant, a member of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the governor of Zaporizhzhia, and a former deputy...
Sergei Bondarchuk has been wanted since February 2015.
Sergei Bondarchuk
One of the top officials sought by Interpol at Ukraine's request is undoubtedly 44-year-old Serhiy Bondarchuk, a "close friend" of former President Viktor Yushchenko and the former chairman of the state-owned military concern Ukrspetsexport, which sells arms worldwide. Bondarchuk has been officially wanted since February of last year on suspicion of embezzlement and misappropriation of property on an especially large scale. As a reminder, from 2005 to 2010, Serhiy Bondarchuk served as the general director of the State Company for the Import and Export of Military and Special-Purpose Products and Services Ukrspetsexport. From 2010 to 2013, he was also a member of the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party and the initiator of its dissolution.
The organizers of the "titushki" and the murderers of journalist Veremiy: Armen Sargsyan, Vladimir Koshelev, Jelal Aliyev
Armen Sargsyan
According to the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, it was the group Sargsyan, nicknamed Armen Gorlovsky operated in Kyiv on the night of February 18-19, 2014, near Mykhailivska Square. According to Avakov, at least five people were killed there, including journalist Vyacheslav Veremiy.
Vladimir Koshelev
As a reminder, late in the evening of February 18, 2014, at the intersection of Volodymyrska and Velyka Zhytomyrska Streets in Kyiv, opposite the Chorne Porosya restaurant, unknown individuals armed with bats and weapons, wearing helmets, camouflage, and black masks, attacked Vesti newspaper correspondent Vyacheslav Veremiy and the company's IT specialist, Oleksiy Lymarenko. Veremiy died from his injuries in the hospital, leaving his preschool-aged son orphaned.
Several individuals are wanted in this case. Specifically, 54-year-old Vladimir Koshelev and 46-year-old Jelal Aliyev. According to the official version, Koshelev supervised the delivery of "titushki" to the Maidan, while Jelal Aliyev, along with the now-defendant Krysin, according to the investigation, was directly involved in the attack on Vesti journalist Vyacheslav Veremiy, as well as the beatings of Maidan activists and violent actions involving firearms on February 18, 2014, in Mariinsky Park and Sophia Square.
Jelal Aliyev
Despite Vladimir Ruban, head of the Officer Corps public organization, reporting Aliyev's liquidation between Gorlovka and the village of Zaitsevo, he remains on Interpol's wanted list, and his body has never been found. Therefore, it is possible that Aliyev is alive and continues to hide from justice.
The prisoner-deputy and the guard escaped together: Alexander Shepelev and Oleg Bondarenko
Alexander Shepelev
Former MP Shepelev escaped from a Kyiv emergency hospital back in July 2014 with the help of his own guard, 36-year-old Penitentiary Service Senior Lieutenant Oleh Bondarenko. His escape led to the dismissal of the pretrial detention center's director and the head of the medical unit, and subsequently, the country's top prison guard. Shepelev was extradited to Ukraine by Hungary on March 26, 2014. They were detained in Budapest on July 4, 2013.
Oleg Bondarenko
The Prosecutor General's Office conducted a pre-trial investigation into Shepelev's suspicions of organizing murder, attempted murder, illegal seizure of a vehicle, and misappropriation and embezzlement of property. The case concerns fraud surrounding Rodovid Bank. Shepelev, who served as a member of parliament from 2006 to 2012, was also implicated in the January 2003 murder of Avtokrazbank supervisory board chairman Sergei Kirichenko and the attempted murder of a former Rodovid shareholder. Sergei DyadechkoHe has three citizenships: Ukrainian, Canadian, and Georgian, so he has somewhere to go to escape persecution.
Zaporizhzhia authority Anisim (Read more: Yevgeny Anisimov. Zaporizhzhia's Crime "Overseer" Returns) was released on time
Evgeniy Anisimov
This figure is well known in Zaporizhzhia as a "supervisor" during the Yanukovych era, as well as a crime boss. He is accused of extorting property and money from the chairman of the supervisory board of Agroservis 2000 LLC, a co-owner of GUSS LLC, and the chairman of the supervisory board of Melitopol Meat Processing Plant OJSC.
As a reminder, police detained Yevgeny Anisimov on October 21, 2013, at Boryspil Airport. The arrest was part of a criminal investigation under Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (extortion). This article carries a penalty of up to 12 years in prison. A court later remanded Anisimov in custody for two months. For unknown reasons, Anisimov's pretrial detention was changed. On January 27, he was released from the Kyiv pretrial detention center, where, by court order, he was to be held until February 13, and went on the run.
Member of the National Council Yevgeny Baranov was saved by Judge Kireev
Evgeny Baranov
Yevhen Baranov, a member of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, was placed on the wanted list on suspicion of bribery dating back to the Yanukovych era. On June 6, 2013, he allegedly demanded $50 for the provision of frequencies to television channels. He was released after his arrest, not in custody, but on personal recognizance, by the infamous judge Rodion Kireyev.
Baranov is wanted by the SBU's Investigative Department as a fugitive from the prosecutor's office. He is charged under Part 5 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code, "Acceptance of an offer, promise, or receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official." A court order has been issued authorizing his detention and pretrial detention for consideration of his arrest petition. Baranov disappeared on February 26, 2014. According to our sources, he is currently abroad.
Plant director Eduard Ilyin lost a tank.
Eduard Ilyin
Former director of the Kyiv Armored Plant, Eduard Ilyin, is officially believed to have participated in the theft and embezzlement of funds. He was arrested, but was released and escaped investigators. Ilyin's fear of prison was not without reason: the prosecutor's office has opened a number of criminal cases against defense industry employees and divisions of Ukroboronprom enterprises, including the Kyiv Armored Plant, where one of its tanks was discovered missing the day before.
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