The SBI is investigating who stole two volumes of materials on the “Maidan cases”
The State Bureau of Investigation opened a criminal case into the loss of materials on the “Maidan cases” by investigators from the Special Investigations Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was stated by the director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Roman Truba.
“Regarding the disappearance of criminal proceedings... indeed, 5 years of attention to the investigation of this particular category of cases, 5 years of waiting for results, this is 5 years of special status. Unfortunately, today I must admit that there are certain possible violations on the part of investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office. Yesterday we received a request to enter information about the investigators of the USR GPU who allowed the loss of materials from criminal proceedings. We received two volumes of materials from one of the criminal proceedings. We have entered information into the ERDR and today a corresponding investigation has begun,” Truba said.
When asked whose appeal was received by the State Bureau of Investigation, he replied “if I’m not mistaken, it was from Andrei Portnov.”
On October 21, 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office created the Department of Procedural Guidance in Criminal Proceedings regarding crimes committed in connection with mass protests in 2013-2014. It consisted of three departments.
Later, lawyer Andrei Portnov reported in his telegram channel that “the former head of the Maidan department of the General Prosecutor’s Office, Sergei Gorbatyuk, stole two volumes of the original criminal proceedings concerning the executions of police officers during the so-called revolution. He stole it and hid it along with video recordings and original documents. We found. Today, both volumes, along with the disks and my statement about the crime, were transferred to the State Bureau of Investigation. We are waiting for a procedural decision and a detailed investigation into who convinced the chief Maidan investigator to lose evidence of the mass murders of police officers. Don't switch. Soon we will put this criminal case on our heads.”
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