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The Prosecutor General's Office has registered a criminal proceeding on an attempt to commit high treason in connection with plans to hold a teleconference between the NewsOne and Russia 24 TV channels, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced this on Facebook.
“In connection with the intentions of the News-Van TV channel to conduct a joint teleconference with the Russian sanctioned channel, the Prosecutor General’s Office today registered proceedings for attempted high treason by providing information support for subversive activities against Ukraine,” he wrote.
According to Lutsenko, everyone involved – “from the owner of the channel to the presenter who made the announcement public” – has been summoned for questioning.
“A submission to the court to seize assets is being prepared,” the prosecutor general said.
“We are preparing a submission to the court to seize the accounts and assets of the NewsOne TV channel,” Lutsenko later clarified in his video message.
In October 2018, Taras Kozak, who is the deputy head of the NGO Center for the Rule of Law (headed by Viktor Medvedchuk), became the owner of the corporate rights of the NewsOne TV channel.
On July 12, the NewsOne channel controlled by Viktor Medvedchuk and the Russian state channel Russia 1 intended to hold a joint telethon “We need to talk.” In response, President Vladimir Zelensky criticized this idea, calling it “cheap and irresponsible PR” and instead proposing his idea of a meeting in Minsk of the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, the United States and Russia. Observers in Kyiv regard this as an intensification of the struggle between the presidential party “Servant of the People” and the Medvedchuk-Rabinovich party “For Life” for the “Russian” agenda on the eve of the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine scheduled for July 21.
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