Sumy Region’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) on Friday sent its indictment of Yuriy Chmyr, a Sumy Regional Council deputy and ex-deputy head of the Yanukovych presidential administration, to court.
The PGO’s official website on Friday said an ex high ranking national Ukrainian official and current Sumy regional deputy is suspected of violating Part 1 of Article 357 (deliberate concealment of an official document), Part 1 of Article 358 (forgery and use of a forged document) and Article 3661 (false declaration of information) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
On February 8 Ukraine’s PGO said Chmyr, who from December 2013 worked as deputy head of the Presidential Administration, as well as head of Sumy region’s Party of Regions, might have participated in the organization of the violent break-up of protests in Kyiv during February 2014.
The pretrial investigation established that the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration dealing with humanitarian affairs helped organize the violent break-up of the anti-presidential demonstrations in Kyiv on February 18 and February 19, 2014. Investigators noted Chmyr’s use of a cell phone with a subscription to the private stock company MTS Ukraine.
Prosecutors received court permission to access information and documents belonging to MTS Ukraine, including Chmyr’s telephone conversations during this period.
PGO chief Yuriy Lutsenko on July 7 said agents found more than $1 million cash in two bank safe deposit boxes belonging to Chmyr, more than $1 million instead of $572,000 he had officially declared.
