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Vitaliy Serdiuk, a lawyer for Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych, has called on Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko to ensure the arrival of an investigator to his client and insists that political figures not interfere in the "Maidan case."

“Lawyer Vitaliy Serdiuk is calling on the prosecutor general to ensure the arrival of an investigator to Viktor Yanukovych; insists on political figures’ non-interference in the ‘Maidan case’ and a public statement on the absence of evidence of Yanukovych’s involvement in the Maidan shooting, that the proceedings should be as public as possible and that all existing theories of the tragedy be explored,” the lawyer said in a press release handed out to journalists in the Interfax-Ukraine office on May 18 before the press conference on the new circumstances in the case against Yanukovych.

The lawyer also demands that the “Maidan case” materials be made public.

Serdiuk said the Prosecutor General’s Office did not collect evidence that could confirm Yanukovych’s guilt during the investigation into the “Maidan case.” “For this reason, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office should tell that to the public openly and honestly, make the legal proceedings as public as possible and finally begin working on the existing theories of the tragedy,” the press release says.

The lawyer later told reporters that no investigative actions are being conducted in regard to the case involving the creation of a criminal organization opened against his client.

“The criminal proceedings against Yanukovych 1048 [case involving the creation of a criminal organization for the purpose of creating a grave or an especially grave crime] was halted more than a year ago, even in 2014; it’s been almost two years since it was halted, that is, investigative actions are not being conducted. We have requested an investigation into this case; our request was declined,” he told a press conference at the Interfax office.