The Prosecutor’s Office is ordered to achieve the sentence in the courts in all opened cases against Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine and this task will be fulfilled even if the suspension of all advocates of his defense is needed. Ukrainian News reported this citing Apostrof.
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112.ua: Suspension of Yanukovych’s lawyers to fasten giving of sentence in his case
Yanukovychs lawyers (L) and prosecutors (R) talk in front of a panel of three-judges in Kyiv on June 26, 2017, on the first day of hearing the merits of the case of deposed Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych who was accused of treason and other crimes committed before he fled to Russia in February 2014.