Director of the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) Roman Truba has said ex-President Petro Poroshenko will be called again to the SBI, since he did not come there on Sept. 3 afternoon for questioning.
“Petro Poroshenko hasn’t appeared for questioning at the SBI today. His lawyer came and explained the reason for his client’s failure to appear – he’s now a Ukrainian MP and is working in the session hall. I do not exclude the possibility that such an argument will now be used as a cliche in the case of the next failures to appear,” Truba wrote in his Telegram channel on Sept 3.
“We will send a second subpoena for interrogation,” Truba said.
As reported, Poroshenko’s appearance for interrogation was planned for Tuesday at 14:00, but the fifth president did not appear to conduct investigative actions, instead of his lawyer Ihor Golovan came to the SBI.
Golovan told reporters that he had submitted an application to the SBI that Poroshenko had no opportunity to appear in the Bureau in connection with his work in parliament.
“We believe that work in parliament is a good reason for (failure to appear),” the lawyer said.
Specifying the framework of the criminal proceedings Poroshenko was called on to conduct investigative actions on Sept. 3, Golovan said: “Today, as far as we could understand from the agenda, it was about issuing one of the decrees. We asked the investigator on August 15 to explain the essence of the criminal proceedings. We have not received a response.”
The lawyer added that Poroshenko had been summoned as a witness in four proceedings.
