The court allowed the investigation against apostate Yanukovych/TSN
The court allowed a special investigation against the former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of the times of Yanukovych Vladimir Sivkovich. The case concerns the dispersal of the “student Maidan”.
The official is charged with obstructing a peaceful assembly and exceeding his official powers.
The decision gives the prosecution the right to conduct a pre-trial investigation against a wanted suspect – even in his absence.
Dispersal of the Maidan
According to the investigation, on November 30, 2013, Sivkovich organized and controlled the violent dispersal of a peaceful rally on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv by Berkut officers. The authorities wanted to prevent the participants of the protest, which was directed against the refusal of the top leadership of the state to sign the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
The State Bureau of Investigation claims that Sivkovych colluded with the former head of the Kyiv city state administration and influenced on the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in his own office. Sivkovich allegedly persuaded a law enforcement officer to give an order to the police to disperse the Maidan.
Recall that after that, police officers and servicemen of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs wounded 127 citizens. About 300 participants of the meeting were forcibly pushed away from the Monument of Independence and the monument to the founders of Kyiv outside the square. At the same time, the security forces severely exceeded their service capabilities. They committed violence and used special means: “PR-73” and “Tomfa” batons.
By the way, Sivkovich was put on the international wanted list as early as June 10, 2020.
Maidan cases: what is known
- The crimes committed during the Revolution of Dignity are conditionally combined into one great “Maidan case”. In total, about 86 court cases were opened against 176 people.
- This concerns the dispersal of students, the illegal actions of the security forces during protests on December 1, attempts to disperse the Maidan on the night of December 11, and the murder of activists in January-February 2014 .
- In February 2022, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova admitted that not all Maidan cases were solved, but they are working on it. The families of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes have been waiting for justice for years.
