Suspects: Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office summoned Shoigu, Matvienko and Medvedev for questioning

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In addition, among those called for interrogation are the Head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, the President of the Russian FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Head of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov and a plenipotentiary member. Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District Igor Shchegolev.

The subpoenas say that all of them were suspected of committing crimes under the second part of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“i.e. the commission by a representative of the authorities with the prior agreement of a group of persons deliberately to change the boundaries of the territory and state borders of Ukraine in violation of the procedure established by the Constitution of Ukraine”. public calls to take action”). For such crimes in Ukraine, it threatens five to ten years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.

All suspects were invited to the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on 16, 17 and 18 May. And everyone is given a time. So they are waiting for Medvedev at 16:00 at “Kyiv, Reznitskaya street, 13/15, office 1411b”, Matvienko at 17:00 and Shoigu at 15:00.

It was stated that all suspects “had to come to the inspector, prosecutor, investigation judge and court with a summons”. And in the case of “impossibility to come to the interview at the specified time – inform about it in advance”.

In the subpoenas, it was also clarified that the suspects would be fined if they did not show up without good reason or did not make excuses. Then the Ukrainian side reserves the right to use the driver and put everyone on the international wanted list.

In addition, the Ukrainian supervisory authority reported that all of the above “already sent summons regarding mandatory participation on 16, 17 and 18 May”.

“Messages of suspicion” were also published on the website of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office, in which the suspects of each of those called for interrogation were announced. Thus, it is recorded that they distorted the events in Euromaidan in Russia in 2013 and pointed to the misconception of Ukraine as a “vector of European development”. And with the help of the media, “the consciousness of a section of the population was distorted” in order to “change the foundations of worldview, raise doubts about the necessity and expediency of communal coexistence” in Ukraine.

Russian authorities are also suspected of crimes related to the annexation of Crimea to Russia and a military special operation.

Reaction of RF IC

After the publication of the Ukrainian agenda, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee instructed To determine which of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation.

“The Investigative Committee of Russia continues to investigate criminal cases initiated in connection with the actions of Ukrainian law enforcement officials to illegally bring Russian citizens to criminal responsibility. At the moment, 14 criminal cases on such facts are already in the production of investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee, ”says the website of the Russian department.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation believes that “on undue grounds” the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies “make procedural decisions to initiate criminal cases against Russian deputies, senators, teachers of educational institutions, journalists and other citizens.”

Russian investigators characterized the actions of their Ukrainian colleagues as a criminal offense in connection with the second part of article 299 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “knowingly bringing an innocent person to criminal responsibility”.

“The defendants in these criminal cases include investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine, officials of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine and district prosecutors’ offices. The Chairman of the Investigative Committee instructed the investigators, within the framework of the criminal case under investigation, to identify the reasons, the initiators of these decisions and the specific officials involved in them. Their actions will be given a criminal-legal assessment, ”said the Russian department.