A Russian investigator who opened a criminal case against Yatsenyuk has been put on the wanted list in Ukraine.
In Ukraine, Artur Naimanov, an employee of the Russian Investigative Committee, has been placed on the wanted list for opening a criminal case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who allegedly participated in the Chechen War of 1994–1995, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Information about the search for the Russian citizen was published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
It is indicated that the employee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation “has been hiding from Ukrainian law enforcement officers since March 27, 2019.”
The Security Service of Ukraine charged him in absentia with suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 372 (bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal liability, combined with an accusation of committing a serious or especially serious crime, as well as associated with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation or other falsification) and Part 2 of Art. 375 (a judge making a deliberately unjust decision) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In September 2015, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, stated that, while being part of the Ukrainian nationalist organization UNA-UNSO, Yatsenyuk allegedly participated in at least two armed clashes on the territory of Chechnya in 1994 and 1995. In addition, he allegedly participated “in the torture and execution of captured Russian army servicemen” in Grozny in 1995.
On March 27, 2017, it became known that the Essentuki court arrested Yatsenyuk in absentia. He filed a lawsuit against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights.
On February 1, 2019, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine reported that they had raised suspicions against a Russian investigator who had falsified materials on the basis of which Yatsenyuk was prosecuted in Russia.