Sentence to fugitive ex-president Yanukovych comes into force in Ukraine
16 December 22:46
The Kyiv Court of Appeal rejected the appeals of former President Viktor Yanukovych’s lawyers and upheld the sentence of the Podil District Court of Kyiv, which sentenced him to 15 years in prison. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
According to the court’s decision, the former president of Ukraine was sentenced to 15 years in prison for organizing the illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine and incitement to desertion under Articles 332, Part 2, 27, Part 4 and 408, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In addition, Yanukovych was sentenced for a set of crimes, including high treason and support of the aggressor country of Russia in its aggressive war against Ukraine. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv on January 24, 2019, for these acts.
At the same time, a former deputy head of the State Security Department of Ukraine, who was also involved in the Yanukovych case, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organizing illegal cross-border trafficking and facilitating desertion.
on April 28, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that former President Viktor Yanukovych was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for inciting desertion and organizing the illegal transportation of people across the border.
Prosecutors proved that on February 23, 2014, Yanukovych, acting jointly with the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of the Russian Federation, illegally crossed the state border of Ukraine, having organized the departure of at least 20 people from his inner circle and employees of the State Protection Department (UDO). They all traveled to Russia, landing at the military airfield in Yeysk. They then traveled to Anapa, and then, using a military transport plane, arrived at the Gvardeyskoye airfield in Crimea.
In Sevastopol, Yanukovych incited the parole officers guarding him to desert. As a result, some of the state security officers who did not return to Ukraine to serve went with him to Russia on a ship.
