Information about the ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in the database of Interpol at the time removed in connection with the appeal Yanukovych and his lawyers international investigation, notified on the Internet office of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine.

first it was claimed that information about Mr. Yanukovych on the Interpol database is not present, the Ministry has removed from the column of wanted persons file with its data.

the " basis for limiting the access was appealing ads international investigation by V. Yanukovych and the representatives of its protection ", - is informed in the report. The trial is scheduled for September this year.

Yanukovych was elected President of Ukraine on 25 February 2010 for a five year term. However, on 22 February 2014 in the country there was a coup. The Verkhovna Rada ousted Yanukovych from power, changed the Constitution and appointed a may special election, the results of which became the new President Petro Poroshenko. Yanukovych was forced to leave the country. After the coup d'etat fresh authorities instituted a number of criminal cases against former bureaucrats.

in early 2015, it was announced that the main Prosecutor's office of Ukraine has started the procedure of correspondence involving Yanukovych to justice under the criminal code and appealed to Russia with a request for extradition of ex-President. The General Prosecutor's office suspected Yanukovych on the establishment of an illegal organization. The head of the Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation stated that he had not received the documents for the extradition of Yanukovych to Kiev.

on the Internet office of the Interpol have any information about the investigation of Yanukovych, his son Alexander and a number of bureaucrats from the environment of the former President. States that the judicial authorities of Ukraine wanted the former head of the country " for criminal prosecution or serving of retribution.

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