The General Prosecutor’s Office of Moldova has refused to extradite to Belarus the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yevgeny Yakovenko, who is detained on the Moldovan border.
The General Prosecutor’s Office of Moldova has refused to extradite to Belarus the representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yevgeny Yakovenko, who was detained on the Moldovan border on Sunday, June 5. NewsMaker reported this.
“The reasons for the refusal to extradite are due to this year’s status as a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which won the 2019 elections in the Donetsk region, in the context of the geopolitical situation in the region,” the office noted. of the prosecutor.
The Moldovan prosecutor’s office suspects that if Yakovenko is extradited to Belarus, the process against him will not be fair, because in its March 9 resolution on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the European Parliament condemned the aid of Belarus to Russia in the war on Ukrainian territory.
The Moldovan Prosecutor’s Office ordered the release of the Ukrainian MP.
It will be recalled that the people’s representative Yevgeny Yakovenko was placed on the wanted list by Interpol of Belarus. Minsk authorities accused the Ukrainian MP of bribery and corruption and registered a request for his arrest and extradition.
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Source: korrespondent
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