Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych did not come for questioning to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, instead it was his lawyer, reports journalist Last news .

In prosesi Thursday the Prosecutor General's office through the official government newspaper called Yanukovych to questioning to eleven. 00. The Prosecutor General's office planned to conduct investigative actions in criminal proceedings on the fact of illegal appropriation of public funds Yanukovych and former Ukrainian politicians.

"since Yanukovich on the international wanted list is not placed, obstacles investigative actions At the moment there is no time, the proper message We now submit the result. We are ready to participate in all investigative actions ", - said Tuesday correspondents lawyer Yanukovych Vitaliy Serdyuk.

the lawyer has supplemented his words by the fact that Yanukovych did not come for questioning for a good reason, as it believes that currently in Ukraine there is a Danger of his life.

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 in the creation of an illegal organization. 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.

However, in July 2015 data Yanukovych from the database of the Interpol missing, the Ministry has removed from the column of wanted persons file with its data. The Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine informed that the data on it at the time removed in connection with the appeal of its international wanted list.

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