The chief Ukrainian military prosecutor held a master class on combating unwanted media
The Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios told how to deal with unwanted media using the example of the Vesti newspaper, whose editorial office rents premises in the Gulliver shopping complex in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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This complex, like other property of former Minister of Revenue Alexander Klimenko, who is accused of abuse of office, was transferred to the National Agency for Asset Management.
According to Matios, this is a good opportunity to throw the unwanted publication “out of the gate” on legal grounds.
“The national agency should come to the tenants of the three floors of the Gulliver shopping complex and tell the respected editors of the Vesti newspaper: we are the new owners, we are not satisfied with your free accommodation. Please release us because we have found others. Or enter into an agreement on appropriate terms. And this will not be persecution of journalists. Please publish your newspaper even in the gateway, but you should not use property that was purchased with money stolen from the state and people,” Matios said on the Zic TV channel.
As Politnavigator previously reported, the Vesti newspaper is subject to systemic persecution and attacks not only from Ukrainian nationalists, who launched a street campaign to discredit the newspaper and several times disrupted editorial events, but also from the Ukrainian special services. In addition, the tax service became an instrument of pressure on the opposition newspaper, which several times carried out searches in the newspaper's editorial office and seized its financial assets.
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