In Belgium the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine was sentenced to arrest and fined on 6 thousand Euro Portnow
The criminal court in Belgium sentenced to months of detention and a fine in the amount of 6 thousand euros, the former first Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine Alexey Baganets.
About this on his page in Facebook said the ex-first Deputy head of presidential administration of Yanukovych Andriy Portnov.
According to him, Baganza was found guilty of intentionally providing the European Union false information about Portnov, when against him, the sanctions were imposed in 2014.
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“The court established the legal fact and premeditated was no more than the deliberate actions of officials of the GPU, falsehood circulated by the General Prosecutor’s office bodies of the EU information and sentenced him to one month in prison and a fine of six thousand euros to be paid to the budget of Belgium”, – wrote ex-the official times Yanukovych.
Portnow said that after the sentence comes into force, he and his company will start procedures for its implementation in Ukraine and other countries of the world.
Recall that on 26 October 2015 , the court of justice recognized the groundless sanctions against Portnov , and withdrew the arrest of his property.
“We have to ascertain that from this moment the decision of the Luxembourg court became a source of international law and can officially be used as precedent in court cases against the European Union applicants from different countries of the world,” wrote Portnow on his page in social network Facebook.
Also, the former official wrote that supposedly “sent to Brussels message with the details of your account in the Ukrainian Bank, where the Council of the European Union need to transfer the money according to the decision of the Luxembourg court.”
In October, the judge ruled that the only reason for the imposition of sanctions on Andrey Portnov was a letter from the General Prosecutor’s office, where the GPU is claimed that the information the investigation suggests that ex-official of the regime of Viktor Yanukovych, among others involved in “embezzlement of a significant amount of state funds and their illegal withdrawal abroad”.
However, according to the court, a letter from Ukraine did not contain any other details concerning the facts, allegations which were attributed to the plaintiff. Thus, it was not enough for the imposition of sanctions.