Ukrainian law enforcers have put together enough evidence to indict former president Viktor Yanukovych and other fugitive top officials, the Security Service chief said in a television program on Monday.
“The necessary evidence has been collected. Notification of suspicion is also a phase we’ve passed. The problem is to get them back to Ukraine and put them on trial,” Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told 112 Ukraine television channel.
“They must be delivered to a Ukrainian court, the court will hand them a notification of suspicion, and they will be subjected to a pretrial restrictive measure, arrest. And the third point is the seizure of assets, real estate, other property, bank accounts by court order. All that is documented and has been handed over to the Office of the Prosecutor General,” he said.
He expressed hope that money allegedly stolen by Yanukovych and other top-ranking officials and taken abroad by them would come back to Ukraine.
“The money has been frozen and seized on the territory of Switzerland, Austria, the United States and other countries. Then there may only be one kind of process – the world will only recognize court rulings, in other words the money that has been stolen and laundered or taken out of Ukraine in any other way will be returned in a legal way, under rulings by Ukrainian courts,” Nalyvaichenko said.
“We also need Ukrainian court rulings to return cash that, according to the well-substantiated findings of our investigations, has been taken out on trucks. It should be enforced on the territory of the Russian Federation as well. This money was stolen from loans provided by the government of the Russian Federation,” he said.
