Ruslan Kravchenko
Basmanny court of Moscow arrested in absentia of the military Prosecutor of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko and the investigator for particularly important cases of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office Vadim Primacare. On Sunday, July 23, TASS reported the press Secretary of the court Juno Tsarev.
According to her, the hearing on which the decision was made, passed on July 20.
Kravchenko and Primacom are charged under part 2 of article 299 of the criminal code (“Attraction obviously innocent to criminal liability or unlawful institution of criminal proceedings, connected with accusation of committing serious or especially grave crime”).
According to TASS, the military Prosecutor and the investigators are in Ukraine the criminal proceedings against Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Kravchenko also heads the investigative group on the case of high treason of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
A criminal case against Shoigu and several senior Russian officials were opened in the Ukraine in August last year. They are accused of “committing heinous crimes against the foundations of Ukraine’s national security and civil security, peace and international order.” Then they were declared wanted.
Yanukovych was President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He left the country after Euromaidan — mass protest actions in Kyiv and other cities, during which 106 people were killed. The protests ended with a violent change of power in the country. In Ukraine against the former leader of several criminal cases, including that of treason, his property on the territory of the country were arrested.