Maidan Cases: Organizers of Detentions of Protesters in Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Sumy to be Tried
Kyiv • UNN
The prosecutor's office has sent an indictment to court against former top officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Zakharchenko, his deputy, and the heads of law enforcement agencies in Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Sumy. They are accused of organizing violence and illegal detentions of 117 participants in protests in 2013-2014.
Prosecutors have sent an indictment to court against former Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Zakharchenko, his deputy, acting head of the capital's police, and head of the capital's public security police. This was reported by UNN with reference to the Office of the Prosecutor General in Telegram.
Details
As the investigation found, the mentioned top officials of law enforcement agencies organized the use of violence and illegal detentions of protesters in Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Sumy.
The former minister and his deputy, from November 2013 to February 2014, developed a criminal plan to obstruct the protests. To implement it, they involved former heads of the capital's and Cherkasy and Sumy regional police units, who organized the commission of illegal actions by subordinate employees against protesters.
They illegally detained 117 citizens, used violence against them, and inflicted bodily harm on the victims. The detainees were taken to district police departments, where investigators, based on falsified documents, brought innocent people to criminal responsibility.
The actions of the accused are qualified under Part 2 of Article 28, Article 340, Part 3 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 365, Part 3 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 371 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
For the organization of these crimes in Cherkasy and Sumy, indictments against the former police chiefs of these regions are already being considered in courts.
The former head of the capital's police will be tried for collaborationist activities – voluntarily taking a position in 2023 in the illegally formed "security agencies" of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Since the accused have been hiding from law enforcement agencies in the territory of the aggressor state for a long time, a special pre-trial investigation (in absentia) was conducted against them.
Recall
The jury, with the participation of two professional judges of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv, in the case of the so-called "titushky" on Maidan, found Serhiy Kostenko, Oleh Heban, Hennadiy Pohrebnyi guilty of illegally obstructing protests. At the same time, they were acquitted of intentional murders and inflicting medium-severity bodily harm. The Office of the Prosecutor General disagrees with this decision and will file an appeal.