14:14 18.08.2016

Lutsenko says Yanukovych should come to Ukraine for fair trial

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Lutsenko says Yanukovych should come to Ukraine for fair trial

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko supports the idea of face-to-face interrogation of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and other Ukrainian officials, and invites him to come to Ukraine for a fair trial.

"I fully support Yanukovych's wish to give testimony along with the so-called face-to-face interrogation and it will be my pleasure to personally arrange it for him in Ukraine's capital. As soon as Yanukovych takes courage to be liable before the Ukrainian people for all he has done, he will get the face-to-face interrogation and receive a fair trial even with a fair verdict," Lutsenko said at a joint briefing with Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk in Kyiv on Thursday.

Lutsenko, who was imprisoned during Yanukovych's presidency, said that, despite early warnings, he had not planned to flee Ukraine when Yanukovych "ordered him politically and put behind bars."

"Yanukovych has turned to be a weak person, a traitor, who usurped power, plundered the country, destroyed the armed forces and security forces of Ukraine. In the end, he fled to a neighboring state, and called for armed aggression against Ukraine from there," Lutsenko said.

The prosecutor general added that the ex-president would not dictate the country he "plundered, betrayed, and urged an armed enemy on" how to handle his case by the Ukrainian investigation.

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