Ukraine's Prosecutor General Explained the Charges against Medvedchuk

Viktor Medvedchuk and his party member Taras Kozak are charged with three episodes of violation of Ukrainian laws, Prosecutor General Venediktova said at a briefing. The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the head of the Opposition Platform - For Life political council Viktor Medvedchuk and his party member Taras Kozak are charged with three episodes of violation of Ukrainian laws. This was announced at a briefing on Tuesday, May 11, by Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova. Three episodes in the case The first episode concerns the Glubokaya gas field on the Black Sea shelf near Kerch. According to Venediktova, in 2012, the New Projects Ukrainian company, which the Prosecutor General's Office links to Medvedchuk, got permission to develop the field. According to the investigation, in 2015, the defendants in the case entered into an agreement with an official of the Russian government to extract minerals on the Black Sea shelf. The second episode is related to the fact that in 2020, according to the investigation, Viktor Medvedchuk allegedly transmitted information about the location of a secret unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Kozak, who was in Russia. Finally, Medvedchuk is suspected of anti-Ukrainian activity. It is about "creating an infrastructure of influence in favor of the Russian Federation through labor migrants who travel from Ukraine to Russia," said Ivan Bakanov, head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU). Searches of Medvedchuk Earlier, on May 11, SBU officers carried out searches of Viktor Medvedchuk. The raids took place in the party's office, in Medvedchuk's offices on Bolshaya Vasylkivska Street and two other residential buildings of the people's deputy in Kiev. "According to the results of the searches, the whereabouts of the deputy have not been established, so the SBU is taking appropriate measures to find him" and hand over a request for detention to the suspect, Prosecutor General Venediktova said.