Yezhel will be the first Minister Yanukovych times, which will be tried in absentia.
Yezhel will be the first Minister Yanukovych times, which will be tried in absentia.
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The indictment already handed in the Solomensky court of Kiev.
The case against former defense Minister of Ukraine Mikhail Yezhel, who is suspected of abuse of official duties and causing the state losses of more than UAH 42.9 million, handed over to the court.
About this on his page in Facebook said the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko. According to him, this will be the first in absentia trial of Minister times of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
Lutsenko also added that the indictment for the implementation of conviction has already passed in the Solomensky court of Kiev.
We will remind, in September the Main military Prosecutor’s office had completed a special pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on suspicion of the former Minister of defence of Ukraine Mikhail Ezhel in the abuse of power or official position which entailed heavy consequences.
Earlier General Prosecutor of Ukraine was summoned for questioning former Minister of defence of Ukraine Mikhail Ezhel. The Pechersky court gave the Prosecutor’s office resolution on the special pre-trial investigation in the case against former defense Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Yezhel. The former head of the defense Ministry is suspected of committing actions that caused state losses amounting to about 43 million.
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If it is suspected that, abusing official position, deliberately, in the interests of third parties during 2011 – 2012, has issued four separate orders for which the payment of municipal services consumed by business entities was carried out at the expense of budget funds without compensation (business entities were involved in providing catering services in the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
Mikhail Ezhel held a post of the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of defense from March 2010 to February 2012. In April 2013, former President Viktor Yanukovych appointed him as Ukraine’s Ambassador to Belarus. After the change of power in Kiev, the Prosecutor General’s office suspected if the embezzlement of public funds amounting to 46.7 million hryvnia. At the end of April 2015, the Ambassador in Belarus Mikhail Yezhel was withdrawn, and in may, the President Petro Poroshenko dismissed him from his post.