“An investigation into the illegal surveillance of journalists in the “Midas” case has been launched. The police opened criminal proceedings.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
photo from Yurchyshyn’s Facebook Source: People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the VRU Committee on Freedom of Speech, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn
Literally: “I received a response to my parliamentary appeal from the National Police of Ukraine.
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What is known now: the case is officially opened. The police entered the data into the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations.
Case number: 12026105090000009. That is, these are not just letters, but a full-fledged criminal process.
Preliminarily qualified as Part 1 of Art. 182 of the Criminal Code – interference in private life. Extras could illegally monitor media persons, collect information about their location, movement, personal contacts, etc.
Details: Yurchyshyn said that the pre-trial investigation is being conducted by Maksym Konopatskyi, an investigator of the Solomyansk police department of Kyiv.
The People’s Deputy also reported that those involved were gathering information about: Maryna Ansiforova, Yuriy Butusov, Volodymyr Fedorin, Yuriy Nikolov, Stanislav Rechynskyi, Olga Chaika, Andriy Kulikov, and the late Volodymyr Mostovoy and Oleksa Shalayskyi.
Yurchyshyn will also officially address NABU: “I want to find out whether there was communication between the departments and whether the police requested access to the same documents where the journalists’ data came to light.”
And the deputy plans to ask media representatives whether they were interviewed as victims.