Ukraine's ex-prosecutor who fled to Russia wins court to lift EU sanctions
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The EU COURT of Justice canceled the decision on sanctions restrictions against Viktor Pshonka and his son Artem, as it was based on "insufficiently hard facts." The ex-official was blacklisted in 2014, he was put on the wanted list in his homeland Viktor Pshonka
Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka (in office from November 2010 to February 2014), who fled the country after the change of power , won a court to remove him from the EU sanctions list, BLOOMBERG reports .
The court in the EU announced that it had canceled the decision on sanctions restrictions against Pshonka and his son Artem, because it was based "on insufficiently solid facts." They first came under EU sanctions in 2014 as individuals subject to criminal prosecution in Ukraine for embezzling public funds and illegally taking them out of the country.
In the fall of 2022, the EU Council did not extend the restrictions against Pshonka, saying that they had expired.
Pshonka was the Prosecutor General of Ukraine under Viktor Yanukovych, who served as HEAD of state from 2010 to 2014. After the protests of November 2013-February 2014 (the Ukrainian authorities call these events a revolution of dignity, and RUSSIA - a coup d'état), they fled to Russia. In Ukraine, they are wanted.
At home, several criminal cases have been opened against the former prosecutor, including misappropriation, abuse of power or influence. His son, who was a member of Yanukovych's Party of Regions (a court banned its activities in February 2023), is suspected of embezzlement. Pshonka considers the accusations fabricated.
After Pshonka left Ukraine, Euromaidan activists entered his mansion in the village of Gorenichi, Kyiv-Svyatoshinsky district. Luxurious items, ancient icons, works of art, as well as portraits of an official in the images of Napoleon and Caesar were found in the house. Some of the valuables were transferred to the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
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