The Kramatorsk Court in Donetsk region has ruled to confiscate the funds of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his entourage based on the testimony of a member of this criminal gang, who eventually received a suspended sentence, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has said.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has been working for a long time on the case under Article 255 (the formation of a criminal group), against Yanukovych, Kurchenko (Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Kurchenko), Klymenko (former income and tax minister Oleksandr Klymenko), Arbuzov (former first deputy prime minister Serhiy Arbuzov), as well as a number of other influential people of the time… During the investigation of the case [on the embezzlement of government funds], a member of this criminal group was established, who gave a full incriminating testimony against the leadership, about the methods of embezzlement, about specific companies and accounts internationally, as well as their further use in Ukraine, which was taken into account by the Kramatorsk Court,” the prosecutor general said at a briefing in Kyiv on April 28.
He also noted that this member of the gang, who provided information on this episode, received a suspended sentence.
Lutsenko said, the judge who passed the decision about the confiscation and the gang member who made the deal with the investigation “are under protection.”
