Security Service Ceases Criminal Proceedings Against Opposition Appeals To …
The Security Service has ceased the criminal proceedings brought in December 2013 against the appeals of certain politicians from the Euromaidan stage in Kyiv to seize the state power in Ukraine, Maksym Lenko, the head of the Main Investigative Department of the Security Service, said at a news briefing.
“The criminal proceedings were dismissed in accordance with the so-called first amnesty law,” he noted.
According to Lenko, no suspect in committing the crime was identified, he stressed.
As Ukrainian News reported, the Security Service had launched the investigation into illegal actions of certain politicians appealing to take over the state power.
The fact of illegal actions of certain politicians aimed to seize the state power in Ukraine was added to the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations on December 8.
On December 19, the Verkhovna Rada urged law enforcement agencies to cease all criminal and administrative proceedings, release the participants in peaceful protest rallies held in Ukraine since November 21, not to prosecute them in future and until the law came into effect.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed the law on December 23, but it did not come into force as it became effective on the following day after its publication.