Joint Investigation Team/Prosecutor General's Office
Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova signed an agreement with her colleagues from Poland and Lithuania on the establishment of a Joint Investigation Group to investigate Russian aggression and its war crimes on the territory of Ukraine.
The department noted that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General signed agreements with the Prosecutor General of Lithuania Nida Grunskiene and the Prosecutor General and Minister of Justice of Poland Zbigniew Zebro. The document was also signed by representatives of the countries in Eurojust.
Fellow prosecutors of Lithuania and Poland were the first to lend a hand of professional assistance after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine and began their own national investigations. Now we are uniting the efforts of the Lublin Triangle of Justice in order to counter evil on the legal front, – said the Ukrainian Prosecutor General
What will the joint investigation team do
- collection, safe storage and rapid exchange of information and evidence of war crimes of the Russian Federation;
- operational-search measures;
- identification of assets of war criminals with the aim of freezing and confiscating them.
According to Irina Venediktova, the Joint Investigation Group is ready to accept other participating countries. Now, in addition to Ukraine, 9 more countries are conducting their own investigations into the war unleashed by the Russian Federation: Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Norway and France. She expects the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to join the group.
“During the meeting, Lithuanian and Polish colleagues spoke about the steps already taken in their own national investigations. First of all, they work with witnesses and victims – refugees from Ukraine Also, in both countries, special secure sites for collecting evidence have been launched – analogues of the single resource of the Office of the Prosecutor General,” the Office of the Prosecutor General said in a statement.
