20 November 2015, 14:53
On November 19, 2015 the Committee held a meeting at which they examined the issues concerning finding and bringing to justice those guilty of committing crimes against civilians on November 30, 2013, December 1, 2013, and on February 18 and 20, 2014, and other crimes engaging kidnapping, torturing, and beating the Revolution of Dignity participants; criminal proceedings on the usurpation of power following illegal decisions made by the judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine; criminal proceedings on corruption offenses committed by the high-ranking officials of former president Viktor Yanukovych’s regime, as well as issues concerning the situation with the appointment of Pisnyi V.M. to the post of Deputy Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine’s Main Department for Corruption and Organized Crime Counteraction.
According to Chairman of the Committee Sobolev Ye., the leadership of the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine have once again ignored the meeting of the Committee.
Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Hluhovskyi M. said that the investigation group includes 39 experienced officers of the Service, and they deal with investigation, undercover investigative and search activities. During the period of 2014-2015, out of 928 orders of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine the Service fully implemented 865. Also Hluhovskyi M. said that the leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine did not hinder the investigation of the crimes committed during the Revolution of Dignity.
Addressing the Committee members, Heavenly Hundred lawyer Tytych V. offered to initiate legislative amendments to the provisions of the articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine aimed at giving of evidence by judges: "To supplement Section 3 of Article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with a provision, according to which if a judge made illegal decision over the threat to his life or life of his relatives, he is exempted from criminal liability, and the mentioned fact can not be a ground for disciplinary prosecution."
Deputy Chairman of the Committee V. Chumak drew attention of the attendees to the necessity for changing the article of the crimes committed during Maidan for "terrorism."
Secretary of the Committee Dobrodomov D. pointed to the inadmissibility of protracting the investigation of these crimes.
Radical Party leader Liashko O. present at the Committee meeting emphasized on illegal tapping of people's deputies of Ukraine by the Prosecutor General’s Office and offered to address the law enforcement agencies with a demand to provide all papers on the case, and the Anti-Corruption Bureau with a demand to investigate into activities of the Prosecutor General on these facts.
Committee members also paid attention to nontransparent procedure of appointments to senior positions and carrying out of special inspections in the Security Service of Ukraine (particularly in Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk departments of the SBU), and Deputy Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine’s Main Department on Corruption and Organized Crime Counteraction Pisnyi V.M.
The proposals moved forward during the meeting and the decisions made on the issues heard will be approved at a regular meeting of the Committee.