The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine opened a new criminal case against the former president of the country Petro Poroshenko a >. This was announced on December 2 by his lawyer Igor Golovan, reports TASS .
According to the defender, the case concerns a law signed in 2016 on the appointment of the management of cultural institutions. Then the country “introduced European competitive procedures” to select candidates for these positions.
Golovan called the criminal case an attempt by the current government to destroy the achievements of Ukraine on the European path.
On October 21 it became it is known that the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine initiated a Poroshenko and his associates of coups d’etat in 2013, 2014 and 2020.
In September, one of Poroshenko’s lawyers Ilya Novikov reported that at least 58 cases were initiated against the ex-president, but” in fact, there may be more more”. Poroshenko’s defense considers all cases to be politically motivated, a way of putting pressure on the opposition – the former president is the leader of the opposition party European Solidarity.
It is known that Poroshenko appears in criminal cases on money laundering through offshore companies, money laundering, attempted constitutional coup and others. For the most part he passes by as a witness. The ex-president received the status of a suspect in the case of the illegal appointment of the deputy head of the Foreign Intelligence Service.