“Spanish law enforcement officers refused to create a joint working group in investigation of the murder of a shadow curator of courts and approximately a lawyer of lawyer Andriy Portnov.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: article “Ukrainian Truth” “without trial and investigation”. What did Andrei Portnov do on the eve of murder?
Literally: “After the murder of Portnov, the Ukrainian side immediately initiated the creation with the Spanish law enforcement agencies to investigate the murder, but received a refusal. The fact is that Spanish investigators do not reject the version of the Ukrainian special services.”
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Details: The UP sources interviewed in such activity by Ukraine see two versions, except for the killed of a Ukrainian citizen.
One of them is the desire to access the investigation materials, phones and other Portnov gadgets, which can contain sensitive information to the Ukrainian side.
According to the second version, the Ukrainian authorities, in particular in the person of the curator of the law enforcement system Oleg Tatarov, are interested in conducting a quick investigation and finding out all the circumstances of the murder.
In addition, the Spanish side still refuses to transfer the body of Portnov to Ukraine. “It is expected to happen early next week,” the publication says.
Reference: Portnov was the deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration for Viktor Yanukovych’s board in 2010-2014. He denied the crimes committed by the special forces fighters against the participants of the Dignity Revolution in the winter of 2013-2014, and fled from Ukraine. He returned in 2019 on the eve of the inauguration of the newly elected President Vladimir Zelensky. Portnova was also considered an influential “shadow” curator of Ukrainian courts.
In 2018, criminal proceedings were opened against Portnov under the article “State betrayal”. However, in 2019, Portnov said in his Telegram channel that the SBU closed a criminal case against him on charges of treason, and he also published relevant documents.
In 2019, investigators published films of conversations from the office of a maternity judge Pavel Vovk. From the conversations on the film, journalists reconstructed that Portnov, together with the Wolf and then head of the Presidential Office Andriy Bohdan, illegally influenced the dismissal of the chairman of the Constitutional Court Stanislav Shevchuk.
In April 2020, at the beginning of Irina Venediktova’s cadence as Prosecutor General Portnov blackmailed her, that he had a compromise about her illegal activity.
In the same 2020, at that time, the acting director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Alexander Sokolov, acknowledged that there were “groups of influence” in law enforcement agencies that told the secret of the investigation and important details of investigations to former officials, including Portnov.
In December 2021, it became known that the US Government had imposed sanctions against the former deputy chairman of the Presidential Administration of Viktor Yanukovych Andrei Portnov and his charity.
Portnov was 51 years old.
Prehistory: Portnova was shot dead in the morning of May 21 near the American school in Spanish Madrid.