Pechersky District Court in Kyiv has ordered the arrest the former deputy defense minister, Valeriy Ivaschenko, the spokesman for the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yuriy Boichenko told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
According to him, the criminal proceedings against the former acting defense minister were launched on August 20 under part 2 of Article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or office). He was arrested, and Pechersky Court in Kyiv ruled to place him in custody for two months.
Boichenko confirmed the reports in mass media about the charges against the former first deputy defense minister.
The Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper reported on Tuesday, referring to a source in the Prosecutor General’s Office, that military prosecutors detained the former first deputy defense minister, Valeriy Ivaschenko, on August 21.
According to the newspaper, Ivaschenko is charged with illegally making a decision to sell the property of the Feodosiya Shipbuilding and Mechanical Plant. According to information possessed by the prosecutors, a considerable part of the plant’s assets, including the strategically important infrastructure facilities (a deepwater berth), became private property after the reorganization of the state-run enterprise. The prosecutors suspect that the new owner of the moors and other property of the Feodosia plant is Andriy Senchenko, an MP of the oppositional Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko faction.
Investigators allegedly have a document signed by Ivaschenko which allows the sale of any property of the Feodosiya plant, including deepwater berth, after the reorganization. The implementation of this decision inflicted serious damage to the state-run enterprise, the newspaper said.
