Court charged Yatsenyuk and Minister Petrenko with money laundering and abuse of power

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Solomensky District Court of Kyiv has ordered the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to open a criminal case against former Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the current Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko on suspicion of embezzling of public funds in an especially large amount and money laundering.

This is reported by the Ukrainian News agency.

As it became known, the court adopted this decision on October 17. The applicant noted that NABU had refused previously to open the relevant criminal proceedings on his appeal, in connection with which he filed a complaint with the court.

The court granted his claim and ruled to start an investigation against Yatsenyuk and Petrenko, as well as one of the Deputy Ministers of Justice and the Head of the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Justice.

The court ordered NABU to open proceedings under the next articles: Article 364 (abuse of power or official position); Article 191 (misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of official position); Article 209 (legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime); Article 366 (official forgery); Article 212 (evasion of taxes, fees, other mandatory payments) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

As The Journalist reported, NAPC issued orders to Minister of Energy Nasalyk and Acting Head of the State Property Fund Trubarov.

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