The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine has drawn up charge papers on Artur Naymanov, an investigator of Russia’s Investigative Committee, over the illegal criminal prosecution of four citizens of Ukraine, namely ex-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, member of the of the Bratstvo (Brotherhood) organization Dmytro Korchynsky, C14 coordinator Serhiy Mazur and ex-leader of the Right Sector movement, parliamentarian Dmytro Yarosh.
“Today, a notice of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code for illegal criminal prosecution, combined with the accusation of committing a serious crime with falsification of evidence by an investigator of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was drawn up,” PGO Prosecutor Oleksandr Novikov said at a briefing in Kyiv on Feb. 1.
The Ukrainian investigation established that the investigator “in the absence of any evidence of the involvement of Ukrainian citizens in these crimes signed a decision to prosecute as suspects …. Korchynsky, Yatsenyuk, Mazur and Yarosh under Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” he said.
