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State Investigation Office Ukraine has sent a message to former President Viktor Yanukovych about a new suspicion of the Euromaidan event in Kiev in 2014. He is suspected of forming an organized criminal group. The press service of the ministry informed about it.
“ According to the group's investigation, former officials of the Ministry of Interior, SBU and Armed Forces of Ukraine & # 39; & # 39 ;, & ndash; also stated in the report.
All are suspected of involvement in serious and particularly serious crimes committed from 18 to 20 February 2014.
Investigators believe that a member of the group led by Yanukovych organized “ terrorist attacks aimed at to intimidate the population, & # 39; & # 39; and also thwarted protests.
The Bureau's press service said that 76 citizens had been killed and another 800 injured to varying degrees due to the actions of members of an organized criminal group.
Several criminal proceedings had been instituted against Yanukovych in Ukraine. In January 2019, a court in Kiev found him guilty of treason and sentenced him to 13 years in prison in absentia. The politician's lawyers appealed the verdict.
Yanukovych himself said that the court's decision was illegal and the criminal case was a “political order & # 39; & # 39 ;. He claims that pressure has been put on the judge responsible for the case.
In October, the Kiev Court of Appeal upheld the verdict. The defense of the former president filed an appeal.