Ukrainian authorities interested in guilty verdict for Karpyuk – lawyer
Ukrainian authorities are interested in the guilty verdict for UNA-UNSO Party member Mykola Karpyuk, who is now being held in Russia.
This was stated by Karpyuk’s Lawyer, Doka Itslaev, in Kyiv on November 7, the Human Rights Information Centre correspondent reported.
He drew such conclusions from how quickly the Dniprovsky district police department in Kyiv had suspended the previously opened criminal proceedings over disappearance of Mykola Karpyuk in Russia.
“When our colleagues managed to get acquainted with the materials of the criminal proceedings after the case had been closed, those materials were sent to me. There I found the request of June 2015 from the Russian investigators which had not been granted,” Doka Itslaev said.
According to him, the Russian investigators asked the Ukrainian colleagues, in particular, to provide evidence of the alleged participation of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh in the Chechen events in 1994-1995. Ukraine still has not responded to this request from Russia.
“It seems to me that, on the one hand, someone is very interested in maintaining a certain tension around the Ukrainians, detained in Russia. On the other hand, the authorities take no measures to prove that these people are really innocent,” Doka Itslaev said.
According to him, today he has been informed of the resumption of the criminal case against the disappearance of Mykola Karpyuk in Russia and he hoped that the investigators would conduct the necessary proceedings.
As reported, the Russian investigation suspects Mykola Karpyuk of the “actions against the Russian authorities in any form and murder of the Russian citizens of Russian nationality.”
