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The prosecutor's office has opened two cases based on Lerosa's tapes, — lawyers.
The Office of the Prosecutor General has opened two criminal proceedings at the request of lawyers submitted in the interests of Member of Parliament Geo Leros, following his publication of certain audio recordings.
This is reported by the law firm Miller.
“Two criminal proceedings have been registered at the request submitted in the interests of Ukraine's member of parliament Geo Leros. The applications alleging criminal offenses, filed by our lawyers in the interests of Geo Leros, concern the alleged actions of Member of Parliament Mykola Tyshchenko and Denys Komarnytsky.”
In particular, it is noted that the Office of the Prosecutor General opened criminal proceedings under the following articles: part 1 of art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Abuse of power or official position); part 1 of art. 14 part 4 of art. 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Preparation for hooliganism with the use of a firearm or melee weapon or another object specially adapted or pre-prepared to inflict bodily harm).
The firm recalled that earlier recordings of conversations by unidentified persons, whose voices resemble those of MP Mykola Tyshchenko and businessman Denys Komarnytsky, fell into Geo Leros’s hands, and Leros published some of these recordings on his YouTube channel in October 2 2020.
“During the conversation, unidentified individuals discuss their corrupt past and preparing attacks on Ukraine’s MPs Geo Leros and Oleksandr Dubinsky. Men with voices similar to Tyshchenko’s and Komarnytsky’s discuss ‘shadow schemes’ and the public discrediting of their opponents. The conversations imply that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak, allegedly cover Komarnytsky’s corrupt actions in Kyiv.”
According to the lawyers, the talks also mention searches conducted on Komarnytsky, “related to corruption around the construction of the Podilskyi-Voskresensky Bridge,” and that a man with a voice likely belonging to Komarnytsky thanks Tyshchenko for help in resolving the incident with the Podilskyi-Voskresensky Bridge and the search of his office.
In the lawyers’ view, the conversation suggests that top state officials are involved in resolving this issue.
7 October 2020 Geo Leros released the second part of the video recordings. In the tapes, unidentified persons discuss an attack on Geo Leros and Oleksandr Dubinsky. Specifically, the conversation mentions using a device to commit an illegal act, such as a gas spray, splashing green paint, “embraces” and “cuff-run” with Geo Leros,” the report states.
Currently, pretrial investigation in these two criminal proceedings has been delegated to the Main Directorate of the National Police in Kyiv.
“Subsequently, we will initiate interrogations, schedule forensic audio analysis to identify individuals by voice, and conduct other investigative (surveillance) actions to establish the circumstances of possible criminal offenses,” the Miller law firm reported.
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